Peerform It! Press release

From the 18th until the 23rd of April this initiative funded under the Erasmus+ program will take place. It will gather professionals in the field of theatre and education with the aim of sharing good practices with promote social inclusion and interculturality among young people.

“Peerform it!” is a project of European dimension funded under the Key Action 1 of the European Commission’s programme Erasmus+. Its main objective is to join together different organisations focused on promoting intercultural values and teaching second languages to young people thanks to the use of non formal and theater tools. The main activity implemented during the project will be a transnational seminar that will take place between the 18th and 25th of April 2017 in Ezcaray (Spain), and on which 25 professionals from six different countries will take part. 

Coordinated by Asociación Juvenil Teatral ON&OFF (ES) with the cooperation of Theatre - Studio  “Studentina” (BG), Association for promotion of IT, Culture and Coexistence (IKS) (HR), Associazione Culturale Zoe (IT), Stichting The English Theatre (STET) (NL) and Asociaţia Bolyongo Színházi Egyesület (RO), this seminar will allow that representatives from these organisations and managers of their programmes can participate in a programme of work designed not only to provide them a new knowledge and skills on interculturality through theater, but also on how to use them at transnational level as a tool to achieve the social inclusion of youth on their communities and their development. 

Besides this, the project (and especially its final seminar) has been designed as a framework on which participants could work on the construction and creation of new transnational initiatives after “Peerform it!” to develop new intellectual outputs focused on the use of theater as learning tool towards interculturality (promoting among young people inclusive values such as solidarity, tolerance or intercultural dialogue). Finally, the project will provide a visibility system that will increase the presence of its partners on their local communities and that will contain the main output of the project: a document with all the good practices presented during the project.