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Nowadays, in the European Union it is normal to live in a multicultural environment and, thanks to the migrations, the level of diversity in the EU states is going to be even bigger. However, we have noticed that in our society there is a constant increase in misunderstanding of what are the differences of cultures, the concept of diversity and other relevant bases which should be common if we think about a Europe that wants diversity as an added value. This lack in the society is creating the spread of a lot of negative values such as xenophobia and especially Euro-scepticism. Starting from this reflection and from researches among other youngsters, we have decided to develop this exchange, as we have noticed that we do have similarities in the field of ancient fairy tales and that the spread of these fairy tales and the use of them can facilitate the process of understanding diversity of cultures and the dialogue among cultures and identities for young people. The main aim of our project is to transfer to young people European values of diversity, intercultural understanding and sensitivity through the use of puppet theatre and traditional fairy tales. “Tales for a better Europe” will be a mobility of individuals in the youth sector, a youth exchange which will involve 36 young people and group leaders coming from Estonia, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Poland and Portugal. The activities of the exchange will be held in Tallinn, Estonia from 18th to 23rd of June 2019 + 2 travel days. The activities of this exchange will be based on the concept of peer to peer education and methodologies of non-formal education. In particular for this exchange the activities will be focusing on the sharing of traditional fairy tales and stories of different countries involved and the use of a street art as puppet theatre in order to represent them. Through these activities we would like to foster the understanding and raise awareness on young participants on intercultural dialogue and the assimilation of concepts of diversity and identity. Our specific objectives are: - To raise young people awareness on intercultural learning and sensitivity through the use of puppet theatre and storytelling by using traditional fairy tales and stories; - To share among young people traditional fairy tales and stories through the use of puppet theatre and storytelling in order to discover concepts of identity and diversity; - To enhance European values such as mutual understanding, tolerance, active citizenship and fight negative values as xenophobia, racism, homophobia and Euro-scepticism; - To discover and exploit the potential of storytelling by presenting traditional fairy tales and using puppet theatre with the feedback of external experts as a valuable learning procedure to develop intercultural competence for young people; - To create and perform a common intercultural fairy tale on the topic of intercultural learning by young people and present it in public as a puppet theatre for other young people at international and local level. After the youth exchange, each partner will support young participants to play the intercultural story created by them during the exchange, and spread it through their communication channels and local contacts in the local communities. In our group we will have participants facing geographical and economic obstacles and educational and cultural differences. The whole group of participants will be involved in all the phases of the project. Participants from the receiving organisation have been involved since the drafting of this project idea and will help in the connection of the group with the local community of Tallinn. The hosting organisation TDM 2000 Estonia (Estonia) will take care of the overseeing of communication, will be hosting the activities and will be responsible for logistics and financial part. UNESCO Youth Club of Thessaloniki (Greece) will take care of monitoring the entire project cycle. Associazione Studenti per la Città (Italy) and Foreningen Framtidstaget (Sweden) will take care of visibility, instead the partners Warminsko-Mazurska Wojewodzka(Poland) and Azes Valboenses Futebol Clube (Portugal) will take care of monitoring of dissemination activities.
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