Doors to Diplomacy Participants

"Ovidius" Highschool (2016 CyberFair Project ID 8175)
Romania, Constanta, Constanta
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 1. Local Leaders

We estimate 8 student(s) from 15 to 17 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: We are students from “Ovidius” High, a school in Constanta, Romania, one of the best schools in the country. Our students have every year very good academic results, both in current and final standard evaluations but also in contests and national and international Olympiads, mainly on sciences and technologies. Constanta is the second city in Romania, and the biggest sea port at the Romanian Black Sea shore. It is an industrial town, focused on tourism, trade and transportation. As in all big cities, there are a lot of big problems the community is facing, many conflicts and situations that have to be dealt with.

Project Description: The project was developed with the help of a local NGO – CENTRAS – resource center for NGOs. With the support of local donor, and in cooperation with the NGO, the students started a project focused on a non-formal learning method, namely forum-theater. This is a method that can help solving social issues by organizing a theatre performance with actors that display by acting a local social problem, relevant for the community. The audience, consisting in local community members, can stop the play and enter the stage as actors, suggesting solution to the problem stated at the beginning.

Using this method, 14 groups of 7 people were trained in Constanta, and each group performed 8 shows for the local community. More than 2000 people were involved in this project and attended the plays as active viewers.

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