<< Objectives >>With this project we wanted to increase the level of inclusion of Roma people and to raise the awareness of people against discrimination and their stereotypes about Roma. This project idea was coming from the prejudices and stereotypes against Roma and feedback, observations that we received from our communities and partners, we realized that there is a big need to break this discrimination and stereotypes. In order to do this and raise the participants current strengthens, we implemented this project.The objectives of the project were: 1. To increase the knowledge on civic involvement and participation of the 45 participants during the youth exchange;2. To develop the artistic skills (theater, music, dance) of the 45 participants3. To increase the confidence in their own forces and the motivation of the participants4. To increase the level of acceptance and understanding of interculturality and diversity for the 45 participants5. To develop the capacity of the 45 young people to plan, organize and promote educational and artistic events.Through this project we promoted tolerance among young Roma and non-Roma and reduce prejudices and stereotypes among the 45 participants. At the same time, we increased the level of confidence of young people in their own forces not to refuse to get involved or participate in something before they convince themselves that they can't, just because that's how they were told or that's what others think about them.This project aims was to reduce young people's prejudices and help them to value diversity, talent and knowledge. At the same time, our project responded to the needs of our association and our partners to develop new activities that ensure a constant and continuous participation and involvement of young Roma and non-Roma in their activities.<< Implementation >>In the youth exchange we will had a total of 45 participants as follows:- From Romania we had a group of 9 young Roma and non-Roma people from Resita city, Mociur and Dealu Mare neighborhood, two ghetto neighborhoods that face a lot of prejudices and stereotypes from the community (the people from Resita think that the roma people from these neighborhoods are thieves, lazy, unwashed, criminals) and the majority of the population avoids to get in touch with these communities. The young people in these communities are involved in a series of activities of the youth center in some organisation from Resita, and just few of them are student in our school, TRAIAN VUIA THEORETICAL HIGH SCHOOL, and havebeen the subject of some researches related to the level of unemployment or school dropout. Most of them did not finish 8 primary classes because they decided to leave school to work abroad or to start a family. Working abroad has made them speak different languages, in particular English and wish for more in life, but the disappointments experienced in the past due to prejudices and stereotypes made them not trust in their strengths and not get involved in community life.-From Macedonia the 9 participants were young Roma and non-Roma from the city of Gostivar, a small nord town where the Roma community is very isolated and the place they live is considered a ghetto, most of the population refusing to have contact with them. Some of these young people are local volunteers and want to show positive things about themselves and make the other residents of the city know them as they are, to accept diversity and interculturality and to be more tolerant. These young people face educational difficulties, exclusion, poverty and discrimination constantly. At the same time, an obstacle for them was also the fact that they belong to the Muslim religion, being discriminated against both because they are Roma and Muslim.-From Spain we had a group of 5 participants that come from marginalized communities in the north of Spain, most of them being migrants helped by this association, from Eastern Europe who are involved in the programs offered by the NGO. We had 4 participants from the last category mentioned earlier, from each country, and they will be considered the project experts and the ones who will prepare the scenarios for the theatre forum, LARP or of the different artistic moments staged by the participants.-From Bulgaria we had 9 young participants who, under the guidance of their NGO, came to promote tolerance, interculturality, involvement and respect of human rights among young people. They came from the region of Blagoevgrad, some of them being Roma or from families with serious economic problems, and due to their situation they are excluded or are excluding themselves from the activities of the community.<< Results >>Impact on participants:As expected, the project had a major impact from a personal development perspective. In fact, the young participants increased their self-esteem and confidence, they became more aware of their strengths and weaknesses and to overcome to some of them. At the same time, we offered them the opportunity to learn about theater, flash mob, participation and involvement and how they can motivate through these methods the other young people at the local level to become more tolerant and understanding on what interculturalism means. We wanted this project to have an impact on the 45 young people involved and make them more tolerant, moreunderstanding, more open and responsible when it comes to other young people in the community in which they live, or with violent or discriminating individuals or groups, they had the possibility to know the roma culture and the culture of the other five partner countries. We also realize that the young participants became better to understand what they need to do, to promote understanding, tolerance and interculturality among young people and make other young people in their communityunderstand better these things. They acquired new knowledge and skills, they had more trust in them. They developed their teamwork and social skills and communication in foreign languages. The participants knew more about the disadvantages of living in a ghetto and, in at the same time, learn more abouthow they can reduce the inequalities that result from it. They are more aware of the European dimension of education, European citizenship and civic responsibility, knowledge and use of Europass CV and Youthpass Certificate. By participating in this project, the 45 participants improved their artistic skills, learn how to organize and put into practice activities based on different forms of theater: LARP, Theater forum, Improvisation, flashmob. The young people also became more aware of the effects of prejudice, stereotypes and discriminations. Impact on partner organizations:With the partner organizations we have been able to strengthen our collaboration and work in a positive climate. We were able to improve their working quality, through the fact that we all acquired more knowledge and skills in developing the activities of theater and other types of street art, promoting tolerance and understanding, in disadvantaged environments. We expected and we succeeded to make the group leaders from every country to improve their attitudes, skills and knowledge in working with young people from disadvantaged groups, using the theater and other types of street art to promote tolerance and understanding in the community. By selecting disadvantaged participants from Macedonia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Spain and Romania and disseminated the result of our project we improve the imagine of the ONG in their country. They now are capable to sharing / exchanging experience / expertise about discriminations and exclusion also with other organization in their country. Impact on the other target groups:The residents of Brebu(especially the young people) and Reșița (especially the young people in the local high schools and the people from the three marginalized neighborhoods Calnic, Mociur and Dealul Mare) became more open to new people from other country and more tolerant and understanding after the implementation of this project. Expecially during a visit in the High school Traian Vuia, young people learn about the opportunities offered by the Erasmus + program and other EU youth programs. Young people and communities in partner countries are now more open, more tolerant, they will know more about mobility, about project results andabout Erasmus + opportunities. When they return home they will put into practice what they have learned about promoting the tolerance through artistic ways. In the long term, we believe this project will contribute to increasing self-confidence and self-esteem, civic involvement for promoting tolerance and understanding of young people in partner community.