The ACT-ABLE Project - drama education lab for young people with disabilities is a strategic partnership supporting innovations of the school sector, this partnership is composed of Fondazione Spazio Reale, being the applicant, Soccorso Clown (Italy), Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo (Italy), University of Usak (Turkey) and Residui Teatro (Spain). The project wants to favour the educative inclusion of students with intellective disabilities through inclusive methods such as theatre, with innovative methodologies such as physical comedy and visual theatre, storytelling, dance-theater and vocalism as instruments of personal potential, and enhancing their learning abilities.This Project starts from multi-yearly experience of the concerned partners based on the idea that guarantees the actual function of the right to study and training, is one of the main factors that mainly touches the world of the disabled. As this is an important condition to the aim of their complete integration and inclusion in a social and working life. It is intended for children and youths with intellectual disability, the age range aimed at this educational cannot be decided with chronological strictness, both for the type of disability and for the variables that coincide on the advantageous participation to the proposed course. Generally, the project is aimed at students within the range of first and second grades of the secondary school.The project includes:-Five days training course for the staff to share their own methods of inclusive theatre and activate a common method to use during the project.-Drawing European guidelines which contain the methodology to use so as to start these inclusive theatre courses based on physical comedy and visual theatre in Italy, Turkey and Spain.-The realisation of these inclusive theatre courses taught the methodology of the physical comedy and of the visual theatre, destined to 24 youths with disabilities within the age of 11 and 15 in Italy; 10 youths from 12 to 24 in Turkey and 16 youths between 11 and 18 in Spain.-The creation of the theatrical company ACT-ABLE, made up of actors/mentors and the youths that have participated in the inclusive theatrical pathways held in Italy, as an example and inspiration for the birth of other mixed theatrical companies at a European level.-Of the commune conclusive document based on the results obtained during these courses and which will give life to “ACT-ABLE method: good methodological ways of inclusive theatre”.Through these activities the project intends: to improve the learning capacity of young people, help the scholastic institution with a new and inclusive offer, with an exchange of good ways between mentors and European organizations that use these inclusive theatrical methods; form professionals and make aware the stakeholders and the local communities through these artistically inclusive events.

The “Health Care Clown Pathways” project is a Strategic Partnership supporting the innovation in the Educational and Vocational Training Sector (VET).This project has been created for the importance of the professional role of the Healthcare Clown professional in the performing arts, aimed at assist and relieve the patients’ anxiety and fear, especially children and elders, in the healthcare institutions and social care services. This awareness has origin from experiences at European level, which demonstrate that the Healthcare Clown fosters the humanization process in the healthcare environment. Meanwhile, in different European countries, with the only exception of the France thanks to Le Rire Médecin, project’s partner, the training for the Healthcare Clown is not regulated, as it does not exist as formal qualified profession. This project has born to provide for this gap in the training sector. The partnership is composed of Soccorso Clown Onlus (Italy) as Applicant, Fondazione Spazio Reale (Italy), Le Rire Médecin (France), Dr. Klauns (Latvia), Sykehusklovnene (Norway) and Universidade do Minho (Portugal).Its transnational dimension is represented by the fact that the organizations already work together in the EFCHO context, which is also a project’s supporter, to qualify and to regulate the professional role of the Healthcare Clown. Also the researchers’ role of the University of Minho will be fundamental, since for several years they carry out studies in this sector and they are members of H-CRIN+, Healthcare Clowning Research International Network, that is also a supporter of the project.The project has the following objectives:-Designing, realizing, testing and validating an innovative training proposal, aimed at defining the competences requested to work as Healthcare Clown in a sharing and transferable manner at European level;-Proposing the European level training standards to obtain the qualified profession as Healthcare Clown, referring to ECVET and EQF Systems.These objectives will be achieved through the following results:-European guidelines that include the definition of the profession of the Healthcare Clown, in terms of key competences and profession qualification according to the standard of the ECVET system (European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training) and EQF system (European Qualifications Framework).-Methodological Framework for design and implementation of the training formal pathway, transferable at European level to achieve the Professional Qualification of Healthcare Clown, professional in the performing arts, on the basis on the EQF and ECVET Systems.-Experimentation of some formal pathways in Italy, Latvia, Norway. The objective of this pilot courses consists in testing the course’s structure, the training objectives, the organization facilities, the training methods, the didactic materials with the aim of a final validation.-Digital Resources Centre. It will be a web platform that will make available and accessible the results of the intellectual output, the pilot courses realized, studies and researches, tools and methods, didactic materials, audio recording and video (videos, interviews, multimedia resources) of the activities carried out, on the basis of OER (Open Educational Resources).The beneficiaries will be adults, with marked comic talent, eclectic actors coming from different theatrical backgrounds, who have experience in working with children and adults.

<< Objectives >>VHC is a Cooperation Partnership in the field of VET aimed to produce a digitally focused syllabus and designed procedures, tools and competences in order to adapt “Healthcare Clowns” Organisations to the needs and conditions of the labour market.The goal is to improve the digital contents in the training of HCC professionals, and so to promote innovative, virtual healthcare clown interventions to match the needs of the ongoing Covid-19 emergency and of other logistically disadvantaged areas.<< Implementation >>The VHC project foresees the following activities:•WP1: Project Management and Coordination, Communication, Monitoring and Evaluation.●WP2: Integrated Contents for VHC Training: a digitally focused syllabus for HCC professionals in compliance with ECVET criteria; ●WP3: VHC Cooperative Platform: a platform for VHC training course and HCC procedures;●WP4: VHC Training Course for Healthcare Clown Operators: experimentation of the online course through the platform and its validation .<< Results >>The VHC project foresees the following outcomes and results:•to develop digital skills for HCC professionals: R1: VHC Training Handbook;•to learn, develop and transfer the tools and procedures usually used by HCC professionals in a new working digital environment: R2: VHC Cooperative Platform;•to improve their employability with virtual clown-therapy interventions in hospitals and socio-health facilities: R3: VHC Online Training.