PROGETTO: EXCHANGING DIVERSITIES: THE POWER OF DIALOGUE

Participants came from very different Countries, therefore just the implementation of a social action with these protagonosts, led to the development of respect and positive awareness of other cultures.
The project supported the exchange of knowledge related to different cultures through non formal learning activities, preaviously cited, in order to fight prejiudice and mental barriers related to social exclusion.
We mainly used relationship as a means to achieve awareness of other cultures: only through the meeting and the interaction, the concept of diversity can be overcome and space for tolerance and recprocal respect of ideals and behaviours different from the own ones can be created.
Our idea is that real integration can be achieved through the sharing of moments and activities with who is considsered “different”. Just in this way the overcoming of diversity, prejudice, racism through can be possible, leding to the development of the awareness that Diversity is a Resource, overcoming fisical, cultural and linguistical barriers.
So each step of this project gave a contribute to the development of an intercultural dimension, because during any activity we implemented, we could involve each participant, each of wich came from different background and cultures, encouraging discussions, the cooperation and the confrontation.


The activities that made the greatest contribution to the intercultural learning were:
• the intercultural night, during which each group made a presentation of its Country through power points, videos, music and quiz, and the participants had a taste of tipical food from each Country
• the workshop about Dialogue, Diversity and Integration, during which mixed group, made of participants coming from different Countries, discussed on these topics and wrote a common definition that was shared with the other groups through the circle time method
• Visits, sighthseeings, spending spare time and the nights in pubs all together were geat occasion to know each other and to undertstand aech one’s features and the tipical aspects of the different cultures.