Course overview

Drama in education is a powerful tool that fosters self-expression, collaboration, and problem-solving, allowing students to explore emotions, build empathy and enhance their social skills. It plays a crucial role in developing emotional intelligence, helping students recognize and manage their emotions while understanding and connecting with others. Through the integration of drama, art and creative techniques, educators can create engaging and dynamic learning environments that promote creativity, teamwork, critical thinking, and emotional growth. This approach transforms traditional teaching methods, inspiring students to connect with their peers, express themselves confidently, and develop essential life skills.
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The course will provide educators with a flexible and adaptable toolkit of techniques to apply across diverse subjects and classroom contexts, inspiring both students and teachers alike. The course provides a safe and collaborative space to share experiences and best practices with fellow educators from across Europe.

​Learning outcomes

By participating in this course, you will discover how drama, art, and creative techniques can transform your classroom into an engaging and inspiring learning environment. The general aim of this course is to empower teachers with tools and strategies to promote creativity, teamwork, emotional intelligence and critical thinking among students.

Through hands-on activities, improvisation, and storytelling, participants will develop confidence in using drama as a teaching method that fosters collaboration, empathy, and trust, as well as learn how to integrate these techniques across various subjects, creating dynamic lessons that motivate and inspire students.

Thanks to this course the participants will:

• Discover how to use drama and creative arts to foster collaboration, trust, and teamwork in the classroom;
• Learn techniques for public speaking, improvisation, and storytelling to inspire student engagement and motivation;
• Gain practical tools for integrating drama, art, and role-playing into any school subject to make lessons more dynamic and interactive;
• Develop strategies to enhance students' emotional intelligence, empathy and cultural awareness through expressive arts;
• Create personalized lesson plans and a creative teaching toolkit to apply the course methods in real-world classroom settings;
• Exchange best practices and share experiences about drama experience with fellow teachers and with the course trainers;
• Network with individuals and organizations working in the education field in Europe through everyday cooperation and team-building activities.

Courses planned

2025
06/07/2025 - 12/07/2025 (Bologna)
07/09/2025 - 13/09/2025 (Tenerife)
21/09/2025 - 27/09/2025 (Palermo)

2026
25/01/2026 - 31/01/2026 (Tenerife)
01/03/2026 - 07/03/2026 (Bologna)
26/04/2026 - 02/05/2026 (Palermo)
26/07/2026 - 01/08/2026 (Tenerife)
16/08/2026 - 22/08/2026 (Bologna)
30/08/2026 - 05/09/2026 (Palermo)


​If none of these dates suits you please mind that if there are at least 8 participants interested we may organize an additional session ad-hoc for your school.

Target audience

This course is addressed to teachers, trainers, educational counsellors, career counsellors, school psychologists, headmasters, school management and administrative staff working in primary schools, secondary schools, vocational schools, training centres, adult education schools, higher education and NGOs.

​Please mind that the course may include teachers from different school levels.

Language

The course is held in English. For groups with at least 8 participants, we can organize an ad-hoc session in a different language. 
Please write an email to [email protected] to get more information about it.

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“If you want to start with dual education or WBL you should do this course and learn from best practice from all over Europe.”

- Tom Verbesselt, Belgium

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"Thank you so much for the training course! I really enjoyed and learnt lots from it. It is absolutely super. Your understanding of the challenges of our particular project and your skills in engaging the participants was outstanding."

- Samcea Nicoleta-Cristina, Romania

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Standard daily programme

Please find below the standard indicative daily programme that will be personalized on participants needs and professional profiles.
Our standard program comprises 7 days of course, of which the first one is dedicated to networking, preparation and cultural immersion and the last one to follow up, specific needs and cultural activities. Please note that we always do our best to accommodate the specific needs of our participants in a flexible way, including but not limited to budget restrictions and travel arrangement. Participants can choose to arrive 1 day before the start of the course and/or leave one day after the end of it in order to enjoy a deeper cultural immersion. Upon specific request we can organize longer or shorter versions of this course.

Sunday	-  Participants arrival  - Orientation and information about the venue and the city   - Networking activities  - Walking tour in the venue’s city
Monday	- Course introduction - Needs and expectations evaluation - Icebreaker activities and group dynamics: exercises to build trust and foster collaboration - Body and voice awareness: warm-up techniques to enhance self-expression and communication - Introduction to drama in education: understanding how drama and creative arts can transform teaching practices
Tuesday	- Drama and Emotional Intelligence in the classroom   - Role-playing: exploring and expressing emotions through role-playing scenarios - Storytelling for empathy and connection: crafting and sharing stories that foster emotional understanding - Cultural awareness through drama: activities to explore diverse perspectives and connect across differences - Cultural activities in the venue’s city
Wednesday	- Drama techniques for creative learning and critical thinking  - Improvisation for problem-solving: interactive exercises to develop critical thinking and adaptability - Expressive arts techniques: integrating art, music and drama to support emotional exploration and social bonding - Optional cultural visit outside the venue’s city
Thursday	- How drama empowers confidence, self-expression and teamwork  - Confidence through public speaking: techniques to enhance voice projection, body language, and presence - Building trust through drama: exercises that foster group trust and cohesion
Friday	- Drama-based classroom scenarios: applying course techniques to real-world teaching situations - Creating a toolkit for creative teaching: designing lesson plans and strategies to take back to their classrooms -  Farewell dinner
Saturday	- Space for discussion of future cooperation and planning follow up activities - Course roundup and final evaluation - Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony - Additional training session tailored to specific needs (optional) - Participants departure

Other relevant facts

• Methodology
• Costs and Erasmus+ Funding
• Certification and Validation of learning outcomes

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We tailor the working methods based upon participants’ needs, attitudes and professional profiles in order to ensure high productivity, effectiveness and transferability into practice.
The standard methodology is highly practical and participative with hands-on approach that comprises real-job examples, case studies examination and simulations. We embrace collaboratively working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. Our focus is on learning in an interactive and international environment knowledge applicable to the real contexts and/or in the classroom. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential training, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange. They include visits with local schools and institutions allowing the participants to better understand the local education system as well as exchange ideas and contacts.
Morning Wrap-up and brief daily evaluations are foreseen to ensure quality of education and to adapt the learning programme to participants' needs better tailoring the education.
We organize optional social, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to know Italy as well as to exchange best-practice and establish professional cooperation and links.
The training and staff team is multinational thus giving a full European dimension to the course.

Teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations are eligible to receive an Erasmus+ grant covering all the costs to attend our training courses including travel, board and lodging, cultural activities and all fees. Our training courses are tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ and we offer different options to ensure the best comfort and quality at a price that is within the Erasmus+ grant.
We are proud to tailor our training courses to both participants' learning and practical needs and to ease your participation at our training courses, we will gladly take care of all the practical arrangements. If you prefer, you can take care of some of the practical arrangements by yourself (e.g. meals...), though we will manage the organization of your accommodation in order to ensure optimal logistic organization, safety and time-efficiency. We always provide board and lodging in the same hotel in which we organize the course  thus ensuring optimal comfort and potential of networking with the fellow participants. Read more about  how we take care of your subsistence and practical arrangements. 
The most common option that we offer to schools and organisations in 2025 costs 1405 EUR in Bologna, 1355 EUR in Tenerife and Athens and 1225 EUR in Palermo, Porto, Rimini and Berlin and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, 2 coffee breaks per day, walking tour in the venue’s city, a sum-up dissemination video. The standard option in Bologna, Tenerife and Thessaloniki includes all meals from Sunday lunch to Saturday lunch, while in Palermo, Porto and Rimini includes all breakfasts and three networking meals in local restaurants. Few of our courses include extra services and activities hence having a different pricing option, which will be communicated upon receiving the pre-registration.​
For schools sending 2 or more participants we can offer accommodation in double rooms and we can provide as well accommodation for people or relatives accompanying the participants.
When attending our courses, we recommend you to request 9 days of individual support for your subsistence costs, 7 days for the course plus 2 additional days for the travel. In this way you can have more flexibility in planning your stay and you can enjoy all the cultural activities planned from the first to the last day of course. You can read here more about the Erasmus+ funding. Shall you have need any help with filling the budget during the application stage or have any problem with your grant please let us know and we will see how to support you.

At the end of the course, each participant will be awarded a certificate of attendance, together - if requested - with the Europass Mobility Certificate. The certificate are in line with the Erasmus Quality Standards and include a short description of the course and its learning outcomes, dates, venues, the name of the course provider and the course instructor(s).
We support the participants in every step of certification and validation of learning outcomes with specific focus on European instruments and Erasmus plus requirements such as staff mobility/learning agreement, quality commitment and Europass mobility certificate.
We experienced that schools and education organizations may require additional documents to certify the competences learned or the presence in the training course. Upon request we can provide additional certification and reporting documents as well as we provide photos of the training course and a sum-up video that can be used for visibility and dissemination purposes.

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