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A Tune of Peace
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Associazione Culturale Pitagora is dedicated to promote intercultural dialogue, social inclusion, tolerance among youngsters. Considering the worldwide situation where violence occurs in a big amount nowadays, the School has decided to celebrate the peace and the solidarity among youngsters with an ambitious youth mobility project in Italy.The Youth Exchange "In peace everything sounds better" will involve 5 partner organisations from the following countries: Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Hungary, Macedonia plus Italy, 5 young people and 1 youth leader from each country, all together 36 participants.Date and place of the mobility: 20-28 November 2016 (2 travel days included), Sassari, Sardinia, ITALY.Participants: 18-25 years old, motivated and ambitious young people, students and youth leaders who are actively involved in local organisations, and who are actively interested in the field of music, art or sport.The working language of the project will be English.The project will address the topic 'Music, art, sport and non-formal education as tools for creating the atmosphere of tolerance, understanding, conflict management and peace'.The objectives of the project are: - To bring people from different nations together and create the atmosphere of tolerance, understanding, conflict management and peace;- To use music, art, sport and non-formal educational tools to give a personal experience to participants about international cooperation and quality teamwork;- To promote social dialogue through social media channels in order to reach a large number of international youngsters with the message of peace;- To give opportunity and good example to youngsters for practicing active citizenship by involving them in artistic, music and sport activities together with local people.The aims of the project are:- To reinforce youngsters about their own skills, abilities and opportunities in shaping their own and their peers' future.- To provide support for young people to take initiatives in order to create peace around themselves,- To encourage young people for active citizenship and to act as a multiplier in their community.- To provide information about available European resources for similar initiations.- To create a long term partnership between the participating organisations to maximize the results and impact of the project.The main issues involved in order to reach the goals will be:- to explore and use the possibilities of social media in social dialogue;- to provide a general understanding about the nature of conflicts;- to give a personal experience in anger management, active listening and conflict management;- to show how sport and fair-play prevent violence;- to use art, music and sport through non-formal educational methods to create international cooperation;- to increase knowledge about existing peace-building projects, organisations and individual achievements from history and the present

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