"Interculturality Reloaded" was a European youth exchange that took place from the 15th to the 22nd of August 2016 in Ezcaray (La Rioja, Spain) and involved 45 young people and youth leaders from four partner organisations: ON&OFF (Spain, coordinator), International Center for Development of Education and Training (Bulgaria), Calypso (Italy) and IFALL (Sweden). Participants from these countries worked together using theatre as main tool for intercultural understanding and reflection. The main aim of this project funded under the Key Action 1 of the Erasmus+ programme was to provide to young participants a framework to explore different questions related to the main issue of the exchange and to show them the importance of their role as citizens and on the mutual understanding of the European cultures. Using dramatic methodologies and non-formal activities, participants discovered how their cultural differences can become learning opportunities. They explored together those cultural facts that they have in common or are different, and reflected on the stereotypes, labels or prejudices that they could have about the countries involved on the project. Thanks to the use of the “dramatic game”, improvisations, debates or role playing, participants shared their experiences and realized about the different cultural facts of their home countries. According to this, the project achieved a mutual understanding through a common aim: make questions and find the answers together. Besides this, the exchange offered constant interactive activities between the young participants thanks to mixed group tasks, energizers, open air games and other methodologies related to the theatre field. Furthermore, participants had the opportunity of discovering the culture of the partner countries thanks to cultural workshops or different touristic visits. To disseminate the results of the project, participants also implemented at its end a public performance on the capital city of La Rioja (Logroño) that was designed by all of them during the exchange.
