YMCA Parthenope ONUS

The YMCA Parthenope ONLUS has a consolidated experience in transnational and educational projects. We have worked with teenagers, young adults and youth workers on one hand with the European Youth, Youth in Action & Erasmus’ Programs, on the other hand we coperated with a number of national and regional Italian programmes. We have developed a number of good practises spanning from the logistical organization to the content-based education relying mainly on the arts such as theatre, dance and music. Our youth Centres are in Poggio Mirteto (near Rome, in Central Italy), in S. Giorgio del Sannio (Benevento) and Naples whereas in the village of Motta (Benevento) we have founded the Civic School of Arts "Alma d'Arte", a consortium of 5 local associations. Our staff is well prepared, they all speak Italian and English, at least, and includes several trainers, youth workers, volunteers and support staff. To ensure that participants can learn proficuously, we adopt the "Experiential Learning Methodology", also known as the "Learning by Doing Methodology". The theoretical discussion follows the activities, so the participants can be spontaneous in all the activities and workshops as they used to do when they were children. Unlike then and better than then, after the activities, in the reflections and evaluation, the experiential learning adds intellectual and analytical tools to guarantee awareness of growth. The"Experiential Learning Methodology" will stem, then, into the "Educator to Learner" and the "Peer to Peer" Methodologies. Our experience which we will mainly provide in this project is based on street and social theatre : young people realise their life play in order to develop competences, life skills, self-confidence while casting an eye on the self-employment and social responsibility.