P.E.R.F.O.R.M.E.R.S. project, initiated and coordinated by the Hungarian Psychodrama Association was made alive in cooperation with eight organisations from four partner countries. The fifteen-month programme started in October 2016 and finished in January 2018.The main objective of the project was to establish a European network of sociodramatists committed to share their methodological knowledge and willing to cooperate with local institutions working with underprivileged youth. Also, the experiences gained from these co-operations were meant to be part of an international exchange of practices.The consortium consisted of two organisations from all the participating countries (Greece, Portugal, Sweden and Hungary), each country delegating a psychodrama training association and an institution dealing with disadvantaged youth. The psychodrama associations of Portugal and Sweden functioned as method providers, whereas the psychodrama organisations of Greece and Hungary were method receivers. Partner institutions from youth field varied fromdetention centres (Hungary) to an NGO focusing on young refugees (Greece) through a specialized service centre in Portugal providing assistance for slum residents and a secondary school in Sweden integrating refugee and migrant youngsters into society. Besides the international professional meetings the staff members of the partner institutions took part in international sociodrama training sessions in Lisbon,Thessaloniki and Budapest as well, which gave them the opportunity to get to know a method-specific knowledge about the techniques and application practice of sociodrama.Between the international trainings, a series of local activities took place. At least four sociodrama workshops were held for the employees of the partner institutions on each venue directed by the experts of psychodrama associations.In addition, disseminating seminars were organised in each country to make the programme more visible both for the experts and public.In Hungary, a sociodrama Working Group was established, whose activity included monthly gatherings as well as a three-day methodological summer camp. Professional work done in the project along with methodological results were shown in the form of a presentation and a workshop on the annual FEPTO conference.Below you can read the most important results of the project:- The Brussels-based umbrella organisation of European psychodrama trainers called FEPTO asked the partnership to integrate sociodrama into its professional work and establish a minimum training standard of the method.- A sociodrama network was established, which gained publicity on whole-European professional level. The network proved to be able to further cooperation, methodological development and working out professional materials and training programmes.- Local youth field partner institutions got familiar with the method resulting in openness for organisation-specific development and implementation. In Hungary, three of the four detention centres involved are committed to further cooperation. Although financing hasn’t been solved yet, supervision for workers as well as drama sessions held for youngsters go on after the project has finished, too.- A bunch of sociodrama methodological results were produced (for detailed description see R2) such as the elaboration of the process analysis protocol, establishing the basis of the training curriculum, working out the technique of the sociodramatic supervision in detention centres, and describing and developing some of the sociodramatic techniques.- Two scientific articles were published in Psychodrama and Psychotherapy Journals.- A basic website was created and made public.The possible long-term impacts of the project are as follows:- In Hungary, sociodrama appeared among the methods of social and organisational interventions.- The Hungarian Psychodrama Association expressed its intention to start an advanced level sociodrama training, to elaborate its curriculum and syllabus. The appearance of a previously not existing training will result in social workers with special skills.- In Hungary, sociodrama has become an acknowledged method in detention centres. As a result, now it functions as the most effective supervision method for its employees.- In Portugal, a long-term cooperation has begun between the organisations of the social supply system and the local psychodrama association, which might serve as a good practice for further relationships within the system.- The Portuguese Psychodrama Association has expressed a strong intention to change its name and incorporate sociodrama in its appellation.- Hopefully, the empowerment of sociodrama will affect other therapeutic methods as well, underlying the importance of not neglecting social factors neither in individual nor group therapies.

The main objective of the Performers2 - SCENE project is to provide organizations working with disadvantaged youths with an effective, transnational training methodology to reinforce pedagogical skills and competences of their educational staff, enabling them to deal with the difficulties of youngsters, and help their social integration. Effectiveness of sociodrama has already been proven by scientific and policy research, sociodrama has already had existing training programs in Britain and in Portugal and the method is practiced also in other European countries. MPE started a partnership building in 2016 for sociodrama knowledge transfer and now the association is ready to develop its own training program and can also become the catalyst of a European standardization process. During the 38 months long project among other results two Sociodrama Handbooks (in English and in Hungarian) were published, a proposal of European training standard for sociodrama was developed, a sociodrama training program has been accredited in Hungary, sociodrama was implemented int he work of youth detention centers.