Inclusion is a task that touches upon all aspects of life – including all state and social institutions. Most EU countries signed the UN Disability Rights Convention on 30 March 2007. The convention specifies that disabled people have the natural right to fully participate. This must also be true for culture and education!We are called to increase our focus on active equal participation in cultural education – as a place to develop one’s own creative potential and to bring together individuals of all kinds of personal circumstances. Because cultural education opens up new dimensions of perception and communication for disabled and non-disabled people and creates an experimental space that allows to change perspectives and habits. This is where we can find new ways of exploring what »disability« truly means and how we define our perception of »normal«.Over the course of two years, in the international project Creability we looked into the following key question: How can we reshape tasks, exercises and methods from the performing arts to make them practically accessible and applicable to all human beings? For example, how can deaf people take part in a voice-led rhythm exercise or how can a dance warm-up be done in a wheelchair? The result of this project is a Practical Guide (IO) a toolkit published in English and German to help interested artists, multipliers in youth work, social work and services for disabled people, teachers and other educators plan and conduct creative and artistic activities for different target groups. At the same time, it is meant to allow everybody interested in cultural work, whether disabled or non-disabled, to participate equally and fully in cultural education. Numerous different workshops (National Pilots M1 and M2) and training activities (C1 and C2) that took place in Germany and Greece between June 2018 and December 2019 allowed over 130 disabled and non-disabled artists and other cultural professionals to examine more than 70 tested methods and smaller teaching units (tools) from dance, acting, and music. They aimed at modifying and further developing the tools in such a way that they can be used largely without restrictions in future inclusive practice. The TU Dortmund University monitored the project to ensure that the inclusive tools produced met the latest scientific standards. In a final workshop series (National Pilots M3), the best approaches were further tested by different target groups with and without disability (85 participants 48% with a disability). We were particularly interested to learn whether the tools were more accessible now and whether they could help promote social participation. The result (IO) of this process the Practical Guide - Creative and Artistic Tools for Inclusive Cultural Work features a collection of the best 31 tried-and-tested creative tools. This toolkit is meant to encourage people to create their own inclusive offers. In addition, it comes with important general guidelines and practical checklists for even more specific guidance and advice. Through the two multiplier events in Germany and Greece, and through extensive PR and public relations work, the results were disseminated throughout Europe. We will be happy if this handbook will be used to explore new paths to create varied opportunities for disabled and non-disabled people to come together. We wish that it helps grow the international network of inclusive cultural and creative offerings. Because fostering culture through inclusion helps positively impact, enrich, and diversify our European society.

"“SOW. LARD BALL. COW. MISTAKE OF NATURE. I HOPE YOU'RE RAPED. WATER HEATER WITH LEGS. YOU, DISGUSTING BITCH"" Michela Murgia, writer.YouGov, the largest online data catalogue available, made a European survey about body shaming. Really important it’s the data that tells us how many people don’t even have the knowledge to understand that they are victims of it. People whose bodies do not correspond to the ""ideal"" canon are insulted or discriminated against - one-third of people in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Spain have already experienced this on their own. In most cases, being a victim of body shaming is not an isolated case: among Europeans who have suffered discrimination, 36% have suffered more than ten times.""Body Shining"" is an outcome of the interest of all 5 European partner associations to multiply and improve the tools and abilities in the field of non-formal education with youth at risk of social exclusion, by sharing and combining resources, abilities, experiences and good practices amongst them. Each one of the partner's associations is specialized in one field of non-formal education.Main objectives of the project are:• Raise awareness about the act of body-shaming • Give tools of art mediation • Zeroing cyberbullying and act of discrimination• Enhancing self-esteem that allows us to have good relations with our-self and the others (fundamental for our personal growth development). The project has a duration of 29 months within which we improve 5 intellectual output: IO1 ""What does body shaming mean?"": We will present a book filled with young people’s perspectives on body-shaming. It will be based on workshops co-designed by them and by young with disabilities. It will collect 200 critical incidentsIO2 ""Toolkit for prevention"": The output will consist of a series of video and texts offering training tools for youth workers to address the topic of body-shaming. The focus will be on prevention of body-shamingIO3 ""Art workshops for body-positivity"" while IO2 focuses on creating pedagogical tools for prevention, IO3 focuses on pedagogical tools that can be used for youngsters who had experienced body shaming. We will deliver art-based workshops in co-constructionIO4 ""Online learning platform"" aims to help youth workers integrate the project’s products into their work practice either by establishing specific training or by inserting specific sessions into the existing collaboration process. To facilitate the adaptation of our training we’ll upload the videos from IO2 and IO3 illustrating the workshop processes of the different intellectual outputsIO5 ""Artistic-campaign to raise awareness about body-shaming"" consists in preparing art-campaigns co-developed by youth and artists on the main topics of the project and in delivering a toolkit to build a replicable model for art-campaign making, embedded in specific pedagogical objectives. IMPACT ON YOUNG PEOPLE/YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIESThrough prevention activities they will: • Raise awareness of the role and the use of the internet, social media, and cyberbullying• Develop skills to identify, avoid, or escape from the act of body shaming• Degrowth of hate speeches• Zeroing shame as a result of a traumatic experienceThrough body-positivity aptitude they will: • Increase confidence and safety• Gain skills namely: self-approval, self-esteem, security • Accept and appreciate diversity as an element of enrichment Through empowerment/co-construction of art-sed workshops it will: • Acquire tools to run an artistic workshop• Be empowered through their increasing ability to do research, to explore their own perceptions and to find out more about other people’s attitudes and beliefs• Obtain tools to use and explore art mediation.IMPACT ON YOUTH WORKERS Through prevention activities they will gain: • Vocabulary used by young people• Competences to address the possible presence of insecurity concerning certain parts of us, which affects the well-being of our lives• Skills to advocate and prevent acts of discriminationThrough body-positivity aptitude they will: • Obtain tools to empower young people • Acquire the capacity to animate in autonomy art mediation workshops with young people related to the body • Get capacity to promote body positivity aptitude Through empowerment/co-construction of art-sed workshops they will:• Gain a better capacity to discuss concepts of body shaming and self-esteem• Acquire the capacity to connect concepts and discussions to everyday professional challenges• Obtain tools to use and explore art mediation."

BACKGROUNDCultural practice makes people reflexive and participatory, thereby developing individual and social capacities. This is identified in the literature as the intrinsic value of culture. When cultural practices translate into other fields such as health and education, they have other social and economic effects, such as preventing dropouts in education, improving health, making people more resilient, growth that is more inclusive, etc. These effects are instrumental values of culture [OECD (2018), Culture and Local Development]. Capitalizing on the intrinsic and the instrumental values of culture, now needed more than ever due to the Covid-19 pandemic and as a response to its economic and social impacts, in ENACTING, we present a method for civic engagement that uses video documentary to capture discourses within focused local settings and translocate them to online spaces. Our method aims to facilitate creativity, innovation, and active citizenship, as well as the exchange of perspectives between communities across these spaces.OBJECTIVESOur overarching objective is to promote common values, inclusion, civic engagement and participation through skills development in the arts and innovative digital practices.Therefore, the project aims to:- identify social challenges in local contexts, and provide a concrete methodology for doing so- promote skills development in the artistic digital practice of developing a social documentary by providing a web-based training on social documentary development (ENACTING MOOC). The course will enable learners to rethink local challenges in a creative way, and to put forward potential solutions to those, thus contributing to their community.- empower awareness, active citizenship, participation, social inclusion and foster innovative, intercommunity, intercultural dialogue, through the ENACTING Participatory Media Lab.- promote audience development and the use of digital means to create and disseminate cultural products, through the Participatory Media Lab, contributing to the recovery resilience of the CCS.TARGET GROUPSThe ENACTING MOOC and Participatory Media Lab will empower citizens in the focused local communities. They are ultimately targeted to all adults – youth and youth workers, elderly, trainers and educators, artists, migrants and refugees, disadvantaged groups, and all other interested persons. Also, the project targets local authorities, policy makers, grassroots and community organisations, youth clubs/centres, adult education institutions, local CCS, NGOs, social cooperatives and HEIs in arts and digital media education.RESULTSIO1: Identification of local challenges in urban settings. The major aim of the Local Challenges Assessment is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the present particularities, characteristics and social challenges in local urban settings. Besides Local Challenges Assessment, the IO will provide a concrete methodology for the identification of local challenges, that can be transferred and re-used in other contexts.IO2: ENACTING Social Documentary Film Training Course A comprehensive training course comprising a suite of modules and resources- that will support interested adult learners of all backgrounds as well as partners’ teaching and administrative staff to develop their skills in producing social documentary films by capitalizing on the ubiquity of new on-line learning environments and the pervasiveness of mobile devices and open source software.IO3: ENACTING MOOC - a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and a freely accessible Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) containing the training material developed. It also contains a Virtual Community space to support community interactions among learners, professors, and teaching assistants.IO4: ENACTING Participatory Media Lab - a collective virtual place that allows both to give visibility to the productions made by the participants from the different countries and to represent a space for dialogue and exchange.IMPACT- Learners’ acquisition of new skills on Social Documentary development, thus increased capacity of adults in social documentary/artistic production and digital skills- Enhanced awareness of adults on social issues, active citizenship and community engagement, social inclusion, promotion of common values, local innovation through creativity-Increased awareness of society regarding current challenges and increased capacity to suggest solutions and responses. - Increased resilience of cities and communities by engaging citizens in civic and collective actions.- Community development and intercommunity dialogue and exchange: increase social inclusion and cohesion between different groups in the society- Enhanced audience development and use of digital means to create and disseminate cultural products, thus contributing to the recovery resilience of the cultural and creative sectors

<< Background >>Every journey is a story and every story is a journey. But not every journey is the same. The only similarity between each journey is that the main character went to a variety of experiences and has gained wisdom and insight at the end of it.This is the starting point of our project in which we want to develop a methodology to connect young refugees and other young people and let them share stories, using both photography and storytelling.We deliberately chose to work with a combination of photography and storytelling:.it enables people to express their experiences beyond the use of linear rationality of language. Ideas, experiences and feelings can be expressed in multiple ways with space for contradictions and ambivalences. Both storytelling and photography provide for a transitional space where people can exchange feelings and thoughts.<< Objectives >>The aim of this project is to explore different perspectives on what is needed to 'feel at home' through creativity, especially photography and storytelling. From the idea that everyone has made a journey to get into the here and now and the wisdom and insight gained during that journey is the basis for everyone's present state of being, it is interesting to put different perspectives side by side. Is the 'what is needed to 'feel at home' different when you have come from far away and fled a situation that was threatening than when you have left the parental nest and are shaping a new life within the same country/city? There will be differences, but most likely there will be many similarities as well. How do these relate to each other? What happens if you share the stories and start looking for a new story together? And how do you imagine a new story, individually and/or collectively, so that you can share it with others?The social purpose of this project is fourfold:First, we want develop tools to create a social context in which both youth refugees and ‘local’ youth can build relationships. Research shows that it is difficult for young refugees to really find their place in society. We know from experience in other national and transnational projects that this type of projects can contribute greatly to building contacts between refugees and other groups in society, increasing inclusion. But we are still looking for even stronger tools. For that reason we initiated this project bringing together the experience of numerous partners in different fields.Secondly, we want to make the different stories visible in order to show that in an inclusive society it is important that different stories can coexist on an equal base. For this reason, we involve high-quality presentations of the images made by the participants. In this way we give the project a serious place in the social/cultural field and ensure that the participants are proud and motivated to stay in touch with each other and work on new projects.Thirdly, the high-quality artistic presentations of the images will be exposed in a (traveling) exhibition in the exposition venues of the partners.Also, the collected stories will serve as a foundation for further research into the ‘feeling of home’ among newcomers. The aim of this research is to develop new methods and tools that can be used to enable youth refugees to find a place in society faster and better.<< Implementation >>As stated, the output of this project should be a methodology and tools, existing of photography and storytelling techniques, that can be implemented by youth/community/social workers, educators and creative workers all over Europe in setting up programs connecting youth refugees and ‘local’ youth, in order to contribute to a better integration of refugees in the European society.<< Results >>PR1 - development of the Compendium researchPR2 - development of the draft methodology/toolkitPR3 - Case Study GermanyPR4 - Case Study ItalyPR5 - Case Study GreecePR6 - Case Study The NetherlandsPR7 - Development of the Final version of the methodology

Spiritus Loci aims to recover a physical and spiritual experience of space through art that makes it possible again the continuous dialogue with memories, lights, shadows and the new needs, facilitating the re-adjustment between the person, the collective and his place. A moment that awakens the attention for those neglected and careless places that allows to every person to acquire the “consciousness of the living”, a real process that is triggered by a conversation between our own essence and the places, as suggested by the anthropologist La Cecla.The advent of Covid-19, instead, has radically changed the destiny of the cultural sector, leading to the loss of jobs for many cultural associations. But the cultural and creative sector can contribute for a sustainable development: rethinking the purpose and the meaning of public spaces, bridging the gaps of cultural poverty, promoting new models of economic and employment growth, repairing social fractures and bringing new projects to forgotten territories. Six organisations from 5 European countries, Italy, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece and Lithuania, have taken up this challenge, being conscious that together we can better face with this problem which covers the whole Europe.The general aim of the project is to deal with the crisis caused by the European pandemic through creativity, meanwhile looking for innovation and transnational cooperation, unlocking the potential of young people through new artistic languages. The specific objective is to develop innovative and creative learning pathways for direct and final audiences acting in the cultural sector with new technologies. According to this challenge, in each partner country, the commitment will be focused on the development and the evaluation of results with the direct beneficiaries: managers of cultural associations, junior and senior volunteers, cultural operators, individual and associate artists, educators and trainers, students, scientific and cultural communicators, and supporters. The direct recipients will develop along with young volunteers, junior artists, university students, and young cultural operators. It will be realized a path of 300 hours of training, involving a total of more than 150 participants. 12 staff teachers/researchers will benefit by 50 hours of training on digital skills and among external stakeholders, with the events we expect to reach directly 200 recipients and indirectly more than 30,000, through the multiple online channels.The methodology applied allows the acquisition on the ground of effective collaborative practices, based on the experience of transnational cooperation, which at local level will strengthen the integrated territorial networks, contributing to the dissemination of this intergenerational learning opportunities. The composite curriculum includes distance training (synchronous and asynchronous) integrated to the activities in presence, on the field and project work, with the realization of an event by the participants.The use of virtual environments and multimedia will be harmonized to the actions in the presence, with productions aimed to attract general public, expanding the audience permitting to the production of Spiritus Loci being accessible online and so on different devices and in the different partners’ languages as well as in English to ensure its replicability. The potential multiplier effect in Italy could be important, given the capillarity of the Pro Loco and the success of the Universal Civil Service as a bridge to the labour market, as well as in Germany and Lithuania, in the universities, as an example of extra-curricular activities to acquire key competences such as cultural and artistic expressions, digital and intercultural skills. In the same way in Greece and Bulgaria, the proposal has good opportunities to take root in educational practices for young people interested in pursuing a professional career in this sector with a specialization in art and new technologies. This methodological choice relies on the need to focus the path to the actual and concrete realisation of an event, orienting the role of the teacher, artist or senior organiser to a function of support, accompaniment, facilitation, guidance.The key words that generally identify the expected impacts of the project are inclusion and creative innovation of the new generations. The experience of Spiritus Loci will provide an opportunity to contribute to the national and European debate on the digital transition and the effects that this transformation, accelerated by the pandemic, will have on educational systems, non-formal adult education and culture.The intellectual outputs are:IO1. Education to Beauty Curriculum (blended).IO2. Education to Beauty Digital Storytelling and Video Documentary.IO3. Interactive toolkit (MOOC and Audio-book).