| Activity Title | Estimated start date | Estimated end date | Activity duration (in days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1. Project management | 03/03/2024 | 02/03/2025 | 365 |
| A2. Research and Development Training tools | 01/04/2024 | 31/10/2024 | 214 |
| A3. Dance-based intervention, data collection and material production | 01/09/2024 | 02/03/2025 | 183 |
| A4. Dissemination & Campaign dedicated to youngsters from risk areas and to Refugees | 03/03/2024 | 02/03/2024 | 365 |
The activities of this WP include all project management, coordination and monitoring actions. This work package also includes activities related to budget control and accountability.
YOU DANCE’s management team will oversee all the aspects of the project’s execution to ensure that for all the 12 months of its implementation the budget is properly allocated and that costs are minimized. Duties and accountabilities have been allocated to consortium partners based on their specific skills, experience & knowledge, in order to avoid any unnecessary delays or waste of resources during implementation. The workload has been carefully shared among all partners in order to prevent any imbalances that could lead to delays, or hinder the achievement of key project outcomes & results.
The Italian lead partner will be in charge of executing all PM duties, and will be supported by Ipazia (Romania) to create an efficient and straightforward management system to guarantee that each project result will meet the specified requirements. Ipazia will provide also a concrete aid in all Quality-related matters.
A) Meetings in the neighbouring territories of each partner with institutions, migrants and refugees collecting centres, schools, social cooperatives, recovery centres and “hot-spots” for migrants and refugees, useful for promoting the initiative and raising awareness among potential users or participants in the project.
B) Opening of “YOU-DANCE desks” near public areas, parks, sports centres, squares, churches by each individual partner aimed at active and civil promotion of the project for the spontaneous recruitment of young people between 16 and 20 years old, potential participants in the project.
C) Meetings between the professionals identified by the national partners for training on the administration of the questionnaires chosen for the definition of the target group of 90 young people (30 per country) and the basic measurement.
D) Capillary administration of the questionnaires chosen by the three national partners for the identification of each national target group in their catchment area.
E) Individual online meetings with the 90 selected participants, in the presence of a manager from each partner organization, in particular those who will be recruited to lead the dance-based activities. This moment will be useful to define them, identifying common and transversal needs and requirements.
F) Online professional training meetings for professionals recruited by the partners for the implementation of dance-based activities on the didactic and educational planning of the intervention.
G) Identification, setup and recruitment of places and materials useful for partners to carry out dance-based activities.
A) Dance-based intervention on the target group with two weekly meetings of 2 hours each. Each partner will have a group of 30 young people previously identified thanks to the administration of the questionnaires. The intervention will have activities divided as follows:
B) Activation of the YOU DANCE – WE HELP desk to be understood as an educational-therapeutic support space for the resolution of individual and/or collective conflicts/problems that emerged during the laboratory practices.
C) Periodic administration (every 5 weeks) of questionnaires/interviews for the survey with mixed methods (qualitative/quantitative) useful for an evidence-based evaluation of the intervention.
D) Creation of a digital portfolio consisting of videos/photos of the workshops and video interviews with the participants, those responsible for the workshop activities, and those responsible for the partners.
Structuring a dissemination campaign dedicated to youngsters from risk areas and refugees requires careful planning and consideration of the specific needs and interests of both target groups in each partner’s country. For organizing the campaign, consortium will: a) Design outreach activities that are relevant to both target groups; b) creating engaging contents & develop key messages to target audience; c) Engage Youth Ambassadors or spokespeople; d) Collaborate with local organizations, community leaders, schools and refugee support agencies.; e) establishing KPIs to measure the impact of our campaign, tracking metrics.
Dissemination will include:
The situation that our project aims to face requires reaching a large number of potential beneficiaries and becoming connected with them from the beginning of the project.
The objectives of the “YOU DANCE” project are:
A) Improvement of the sense of personal self-efficacy, to be understood as the ability to recognize one’s emotions, express them and manage them with empathy and emotional solidity.
B) Acquisition of social and relational skills to be understood as strengthening communication skills and recognition of differences and diversity as added value.
C) Inclusion of marginalized and refugees’ youngsters through dance experiences.
For this purpose, we will implement the following activities:
A) Dance-based intervention aimed at young people aged between 16 and 20, with priority given to young people with a migratory background, war refugees or living in conditions of economic, social and educational poverty, in favour of inclusion and social integration.
B) Therapeutic-educational accompaniment for the management of conflicts/problems of an individual, social and cultural nature for the target group defined in A, in favour of inclusion and social integration.
As expected project results, YOU DANCE project aims to:
A) Promote individual, emotional & bodily well-being, through the realization of dance experiences aimed at enhancing the sense of self-efficacy in terms of the expression of positive emotions & the correct management of negative emotions
B) Promote collective, social & relational well-being, through the realization of dance experiences aimed at enhancing emphatic & relational abilities
C) Development of proactive & prosocial behaviours for better civic & democratic participation.