Sciara Progetti Teatro Association is an artistic production company founded in 2009 by a group of young professionals who, after years of experience and training in Germany, England, Spain, Chile and Argentina, decided to settle in Emilia-Romagna Region in 2012. For four years Sciara Progetti has resided at the Verdi Theatre in the city of Fiorenzuola D’Arda (PC), a location obtained by winning a public tender issued by the Municipality. Since its establishment in the province of Piacenza, Sciara Progetti Teatro has established itself as the main Under35 theatre company operating in the area, and the Emilia Romagna Region has supported its activity since 2016 through public recognition as a show production organisation. Sciara Progetti Teatro has built part of its identity around an intense tour, along all national roads and beyond. The tour of Sciara Progetti productions is built through distribution throughout the national territory, also addressed to a network of “unconventional” contexts, where it is more immediate to attract the attention of that public that usually leaves the official theatre. Reaching the public that has less chance of meeting the Theatre and bringing it closer to the artistic moment is one of the primary objectives of the Company. However, Sciara Progetti’s planning also pursues paths beyond national borders thanks also to the foreign collaborations initiated with the Erasmus Plus program, an internationalisation project of a show has been undertaken, which is leading the Company to interface with the European theatrical panorama. In 2019, Sciara Progetti’s shows were distributed between Italy and Germany. Sciara Progetti aims at combining theatre, education and social inclusion.

Twoplustwo is a non-profit organisation established in 2008 in the city of San Giorgio a Cremano, South Italy. The body of the organisation is mainly composed of young profiles with diverse academic and non-academic backgrounds: international youth work, social field, visual arts, communication. Aim of the organisation is to inspire young people and engage them into activities where they can explore their talents and develop themselves. The association also aims at developing intercultural competences of young people and inspiring them to lifelong learning. The association seeks new forms of youth empowerment that can contribute to achieve social change in the communities, providing for learning experiences which are unique and everlasting in the life of young people, reinforcing those life skills needed in a society affected by global changes. The organisation has a consistent capacity in designing educational programs for young people adopting non formal methodologies in the framework of European youth programs such as Erasmus+ (2014 – 2020), Youth In Action (2007 – 2013). Therefore, their experience will be vital in both the project management and dissemination, and in the development of the training courses.

Action Synergy is an organisation which is an expert in the development and implementation of e-learning courses, non-formal education seminars (soft skills included), as well as in the creation of synergies between organisations working in various fields. They are also an expert in the organization of international mobility and European projects from 1987 when the organisation was established. Therefore, Action Synergy’s experience will be vital in the project management and dissemination activities during the whole duration of the project, and during the development of the e-learning course and training seminars. Action Synergy was one of the first organizations in Europe that saw potential in podcasting. In 2010-2011 they were involved in the European project “Learning without Borders – Podcasting across the Wider Europe”. The main aim of that project was to familiarize students from 5 countries (UK, Greece, Poland, Romania and Latvia) with the use of podcasts for educational purposes. Coordinator of the project was the Leeds City College from UK. Action Synergy also at the start of the season 2020-2021 initiated a podcast called «Window Seat» which aimed to share our experiences from the places we travelled the last 35 years in which we are involved in European projects. It also aimed to inform people on the projects we are working as well as to mix the episodes with the presentation of a soft skill. The podcast did so well that the biggest network of podcasts in Greece was interested to host it (pod.gr). «Window Seat» has nearly 4.000 followers in social media. Having a film director and a podcast expert on Action Synergy’s team (Dominikos Diamantis Balaskas) who is also a digital marketing professional has been the reason for the creation of multimedia content (audio and video) for tens of European projects in the past. Action is constantly filming (videos and photos) its business trips and recording interviews in order to connect with the target audience via social media and other sources. The content created is professional and the expertise keeps growing.

The Lebanese Development Network (LDN) is a national non-profit organisation established in 2008. LDN is a Capacity Building Organization, due to that the PODJECT projects falls totally under its mission. For instance, LDN runs ACTIVA, an initiative dedicated for Women Empowerment and Youth Development through raising awareness, reinforcing potentials, and promoting effective policies to enhance their leadership roles for a safe, vigorous and productive environment. ACTIVA seeks to enhance the progress of youth engagement through dynamic, responsible and challenging actions aiming at creating positive change that contributes to the various socio-economic transformations on both local and national levels.

IDare Jordan started working on prevention of hate speech in 2015 as one of its very first projects in Jordan, after that, in 2017 and based on primary research as part of scoping phase to get insights into the behaviour of Jordanians youth who joined the fights in Syria (foreign fighters), IDare worked on prevention of violent extremism, as a result of the research phase and studying 13 social theory there was a set of recommendations we reached towards local interventions that are summarised in this video where you would also see the need to create alternative narratives. As a result of that, IDare is engaged in enriching alternative narrative since then (even we started in 2016), on our blog www.i-dare.org/blog and YouTube www.youtube.com/c/idareorg and www.youtube.com/c/salamoraiyou would see part of the alternative narrative IDare is creating with the youth (18 – 30 years old).Podcast is a format of media production that is booming since three years and ongoing. It is an area IDare is considering but, we do not have any experience in this yet. Therefore, we believe that our partnership in this project would support and complement our efforts in enriching alternative narratives to hate speech and violent extremism content.

Holy Land Trust is a non-profit Palestinian organization. We are deeply committed to exploring the root causes of violence and seek to develop solutions to address them.

Power Group is an independent youth entrepreneurial group, launched in 2012, dedicates its work in audiovisual and arts, as well as media as a tool of societal change. It aims to create spaces and platforms and to provide youth with training opportunities that qualify them to enter the labor market in line with their aspirations, and to highlight their role in society.