- For disabled persons
-The participation to the activities of the international meetings will motivate an active citizenship, an intercultural consciousness and the social skills will be developed.
-Awareness of the own creative potentiality, self confidence, self-worth and individual artistic capacity.
-Emphasizing of the person, social motivation and acquisition of competences, techniques and tools to create and to develop the personality.
-Influences the building of emotional, ethic and aesthetic values not only with the target group, but also with the leaders of the activities.
-Creative learning process regarding the handicap, can change a prejudice into a quality: handicapped persons can also be helpful and rewarding for other persons, reflecting on the theme of human.
-Consequently should lead to socialization, emancipation and return to labor market.
- For artists, trainers, teachers and staff
-New motivation, enrichment of artistic way to teach and to learn
-A social and creative enrichment and a new impulse in a quite special working situation.
-A new horizon of action and new artistic skills, through the exchanges with partners and contacts with other mentally disabled persons.
– Develop a greater understanding of the role of creativity in the self-restructuring and self-healing abilities of human nature.
-This experience will also broad the social and human competences to teach.
-Benefit of an international network between artists, artistic structures and organization for handicapped people, trainers and teachers.
- For each participant, the public and everyone involved in the project
-Awareness about the artistic abilities of people with disabilities.
-Transformation of a social “state of mind” regarding the handicap: Through the art, the weakness can be turned into a force.