ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGIES:

Planning, development and delivery of the project’s goals will include:
• 4 Transnational Meetings: 20 people from partner organizations involved as educators, trainers, experts.
• 1 Joint Staff Training: 20 people involved from partner organizations staff
• 4 Multiplier Events: 600 participants expected from associations, institutions from the adult education / migrants’ issues field

  5 INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS:
O1 – LiteracyAct Desk Research: collection of good practices based on educational theater activities aimed at developing basic skills in disadvantaged situations, to be published on relevant European platforms
O2 – LiteracyAct Labs: creation of a Toolkit based on 3 piloting workshops involving different approaches to learning through theater. Workshops are based on active spectatorship, creative acting / authorship, critical appraisal of the language learning outcomes from the previous activities.
O3- LiteracyAct Tutorials: Production of 3 video tutorials based on the above described workshops and resulting performances (O2)
O4 – LiteracyAct Handbook: Training people to form communities, a handbook for social workers / teachers / artists willing to improve social / cultural literacy through theater practices.
05- LiteracyAct Impact Evaluation Guide Lines: Evaluation tool for assessing the impact of theater practices in language / social literacy improvement.

  RESULTS AND IMPACT
Expected results:
– developing new methodologies for literacy skill development through theater
– increasing at local / national / European level the awareness on need of motivating, and effective basic skills teaching strategies
-wide visibility and exploitation of the educational / training tools elaborated through the project’s products
LONG-TERM BENEFITS
– creating a Europewide network of educational / cultural associations actively involved in theater-based literacy improvement
-promoting and sharing cooperatives, creative innovation among professionals, associations and institutions from the adult education / migrants ’issues sector