The project Art Included supports the objectives and needs of the Inclusion and Diversity Strategy and those of the Youth Strategy with its main aim to provide a quality learning opportunity for youngsters with fewer opportunities to develop skills to improve their personal and professional lives and enhance their chances in the labour market.

The project will help the youngsters learn to adapt to a fast-changing world and become more independent, develop better cooperations skills, easily adapt to multicultural environments and become active young citizens aware of common European values.

ART Included is a 9-day youth exchange in the Czech Republic, where the main tool for learning will be theatrical improvisation and some other methods related to art (for example music sessions). Theatrical improvisation is a great, innovative and inclusive tool that helps youngsters improve creativity, self-expression, communication, foreign language skills, cooperation, improvisation, confidence and pro-active attitude, mutual understanding, presentation skills and much more.

There will be sessions to discuss the current issues that youngsters face all over Europe as well as to raise awareness of the great benefits of a highly inclusive society and how each individual can contribute to achieving it.

The project aims to break down prejudices and stereotypes through a set of theatrical improvisation exercises that eliminate intercultural barriers and help the youngsters step into anyone else’s shoes to easily understand different perspective and learn how to communicate their own points of view.

Intercultural dialogue and learning along with the feeling of being European will be tackled through intercultural activities, such as games and sessions to promote countries and cultures of the participants, but also sessions specifically dedicated to the Erasmus+ programme and other European opportunities for young Europeans to pursue their professional and personal goals.