CROSS THE BORDER the project

The project is a multilateral training on artistic practices for social transformation for youth leaders, educators and multipliers working with young people in the Euro-Mediterranean Area (coming both from Formal and Non Formal education sector) engaged in context of conflict .The countries involved are Italy, Lebanon, Greece, Palestine, Spain and 25 participants (5 for each country) The Subject of the training course is the so-called engaged art or those forms of artistic expression used as a way of socio-political participation : how the use of visual art can become tool of social integration. Its aim is to develop a process of reflection and action about the use of arts and media as tool to promote the access to citizenship as a possibility to influence and thus change on its community.
The project wants to stimulate people to use their creativity and react on what is happening around them. The idea behind this training course is to give participants an opportunity to think about their own identity, the elements it comprises of and the factors that shaped it and then to go a step further and explore the ways in which their identity can be linked to their needs, interests, dreams and expectations within their local communities.
The course is designed to create the space where participants experience and reflect upon activities and concepts central to human rights education based on experiential learning approaches. The course is also designed as a space for mutual learning, where participants exchange their approaches to training and compare human rights situation, especially regarding human rights issues, across the Mediterranean Area in a dialogical intercultural approach and environment.
The previous experience of participants, in the formal and non-formal sectors, will be the starting point of the programme and of the learning process
The course will be using a variety of methods and tools from non-formal education, such as:
interactive workshops of visual arts, discussions , team building exercises , simulations , field work within the neighbourhood , theatre games and role play ,use of Information Technology , reflection groups
The training course will take place in a place near Reggio Calabria,Zambrone.