The DeTalks project started to be designed in May 2017. At that time, Europe continued to receive tens of thousands of people daily, mainly through the southern and eastern borders. This potential diversification in population flared up radical right and populist rhetoric and reproduced an attitude of fear towards the unknown, the different, the other. Against this rhetoric of fear, the European Union, governments, local authorities, thousands of people, either organised in Civil Society organisations or autonomous, acted towards finding ways to welcome Europe’s new citizens and creating a space of more solidarity, equality, and education opportunities for all. At that time, the concept of DeTalks seemed ideal. Six active cultural-artistic organisations from the ROOTS & ROUTES International network, with significant experience in inclusive art-based education, together with the leading institution for refugees, asylum seekers’ and migrants’ linguistic training in Sweden, designed a project in the firm conviction that social inclusion of Europe’s new citizens is based on the development of communication.Non formal educational practices applied in artistic development (expression tools) are combined to the early stages of linguistic training, to create an educational material based on humans’ innate ability to communicate non verbally; because, for new immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Europe, acquisition of the host society’s language cannot be restricted only to grammar and vocabulary. Someone who focuses on grammar will become a grammar expert, and someone who focuses on vocabulary will become a walking dictionary, but to communicate with natives, a turn of attention to other crucial aspects of communication is needed.Non verbal value of culture (that enables feelings and attitudes) has been neglected by the linguistic education of the newcomer citizens of Europe. We can convey a lot of information in body language, facial expressions, volume and tone of the words we use, in the use of spacing and in what precisely we do between the words, as well as in our image, clothing, behavior, and even when not knowing what to say or do. Cultural and social aspects are stronger and wider aspects of communication than grammar and vocabulary could ever be. According to this, non verbal communication would not just support the acquisition of the host society’s language, but would also facilitate cultural meaning exchanges, and finally support intercultural communication. DeTalks includes in its framework also locals of the same age as the main target group. We created a safe educational environment, where we could encourage and facilitate non verbal communication between local and newcomer youth, incorporating peer learning methodology and simultaneously developing two dimensions of inclusive education: intercultural communication (through the development of non verbal and para-verbal elements) and mutual understanding (through collaboration).DeTalks is designed to extract talking from communication by focusing on the social aspect of learning a language, in the ways people express themselves, and on the inclusive potential of non verbal communication, having three, interrelated main goals:1. to use, in the best possible way, the power of non verbal communication in the linguistic education of new immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers;2. to create environments of non formal education where the trainees will develop their communication skills through performing arts and media;3. to develop an essential inclusive role for the young people of the host societies through the correlation with the new immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, by applying the peer coaching method. The DeTalks project has developed a Guidebook with 18 practices, selected as a set of energisers/practices that we believed could and can be applied in the linguistic training of Europe’s new citizens. For each practice presented, you can find clear instructions, practical tips, and hands-on information. In non verbal practices, the visual element, sound, and body language are at the very core of the work. Therefore, most practices are accompanied by video tutorials that you can find here: http://www.rootsnroutes.eu/detalksvideos/The DeTalks project brought together artists, pedagogues, language teachers, and social workers working with migrants and asylum seekers around a specific goal: to explore new creative techniques related to non verbal communication in order to facilitate a positive approach to the languages and culture of host countries. Young artists, youth workers, and educators contributed to the DeTalks project with their competencies, while they at the same time were educated/trained to the innovative DeTalks method. During the project time, they have created a professiona l network, not only at local but regional and international levels too.