"Reinsertion via Art" Programme

The «Reinsertion via Art» Programme, organised by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Social Reinsertion, in Educational Centres within the Greater Lisbon area, aims to unearth new strategies in order to help to educate young people for citizenship, through exploration of creativity and re/cognition of their capacities from an artistic dimension, viewing education from a broader perspective, fostering contact with various forms of artistic expression, raising young people’s awareness for other aesthetic fields, favouring the discovery of new skills and competencies and contributing to young people’s social insertion and combating their stigmatization, through dissemination of their artistic capacities.