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Overview

Laugh Together: Bridging Differences through Youth Comedy Clubs responds to growing social fragmentation, discrimination, and cultural polarisation affecting young people in Europe. The project creates safe, creative, and non-formal learning spaces where youth from diverse and often marginalised backgrounds can connect, express themselves, and address social issues through humour and collaborative performance.

Project Aim

Through youth comedy workshops, mentoring sessions, public performances, and the development of educational materials for youth workers, the project strengthens intercultural understanding, emotional resilience, and key soft skills such as public speaking, critical thinking, and teamwork.

By combining creative arts with wellbeing principles, the project introduces an innovative and replicable model for modern youth work. To foster inclusion, intercultural dialogue, and emotional resilience among young people by integrating comedy-based methodologies into youth work practice across Europe.

Special Objectives

  • Promote intercultural dialogue among young people from diverse cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds through creative comedy-based activities.
  • Provide a safe creative outlet where young people can express personal and social experiences through humour and collaborative performance.
  • Enhance key life skills such as public speaking, critical thinking, creativity, communication, teamwork, and self-confidence.
  • Develop sustainable and replicable resources, including educational materials, a toolkit, podcast series, masterclass, and a roadmap for future implementation.
  • Strengthen social inclusion and equality by engaging marginalized and disadvantaged youth, including those facing discrimination or socio-economic challenges.
  • Build emotional resilience and wellbeing by integrating humour-based and supportive methodologies that help youth cope with stress, exclusion, and trauma.
  • Equip youth workers with innovative tools and training that combine comedy, non-formal education, and mental wellbeing principles.
  • Strengthen community engagement by organizing public
    performances and cultural events that promote tolerance, empathy, and active citizenship.

Outputs

  • WP1 – Project Management:
    Ensures effective coordination, quality assurance, monitoring, and smooth implementation of the project across all partner countries.

  • WP3 – Comedy Workshops with Youth and Public Performances:
    Implements local youth comedy workshops and public showcases to promote intercultural dialogue, resilience, and creative expression.
  • WP2 – Preparation of Educational Material and Training:
    Develops and delivers innovative educational resources and training materials that integrate comedy, inclusion, and wellbeing into youth work practice.
  • WP4 – Community Engagement and Creative Environment Development:
    Strengthens sustainability and impact through dissemination activities, multiplier events, and the development of a roadmap for replicating the project model.

Methodology

The project applies a non-formal, participatory, and creative learning methodology that integrates comedy, improvisation, and storytelling with principles of inclusion and emotional wellbeing. Young people actively co-create content through structured workshops, mentoring sessions, and collaborative exercises, rather than passively receiving information. Humour is used as a pedagogical tool to address sensitive social topics in a safe and accessible way, encouraging open dialogue, empathy, and mutual understanding. The approach combines performing arts techniques with elements of resilience-building and supportive facilitation.

For youth workers, the project provides structured training and practical tools that merge creative expression with evidence-based wellbeing principles. The methodology is tested through local “Humour Labs,” refined through evaluation and feedback, and documented in educational materials to ensure quality and replicability. By combining experiential learning, peer exchange, reflection, and public engagement through performances, the project creates a dynamic learning environment that strengthens skills, inclusion, and community connection.

Partners

Stowarzyszenie Integracja i Rozwój (SIR) – Poland

The Association of Integration and Development (SIR) was registered on 21st June 2001 in Kielce, Poland.
For more than 20 years SIR has implemented about 60 projects funded from the European Union Funds. SIR has been actively involved in various initiatives that can be grouped in sectors:
1. Social economy and social exclusion
SIR is the leader of the consortium which since September 2016 has been running the Kielce-Ostrowiec Social Economy Support Centre in the northern subregion of the Świętokrzyskie. The KOOWES was accredited by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy in 2016.
2. Labour market and third sector support
SIR awarded 221 unemployed people non-repayable investment grants for business development, and almost 500 provided micro-grants for young NGOs and informal groups.
3. Education and international cooperation
SIR implemented 7 projects under Erasmus + in the area of youth education, counselling and entrepreneurship under which there has been developed: models of enhancing soft skills, entrepreneurial issues and job shadowing schemes, e-learning platforms, etc.

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Stichting CWM Education – Netherlands

Stichting CWM Education is a youth-focused foundation based in Amsterdam, dedicated to youth-led participation and non-formal artistic education. The organisation uses performing arts, theatre, storytelling, and comedy as tools to promote inclusion, dialogue, and personal development. Since its establishment, CWM has implemented youth exchanges, Erasmus+ projects, and training programmes for youth workers, focusing on theatre methodologies and creative expression. The organisation has strong expertise in interactive theatre, improvisation, and storytelling techniques that encourage young people to address social issues in engaging and transformative ways. In Laugh Together, CWM contributes artistic and facilitation expertise, supporting the development and implementation of comedy-based workshops and public performances.

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NEOPHYTOS CH CHARALAMBOUS (Institute of Development Ltd – IoD) – Cyprus

The Institute of Development (IoD), based in Nicosia and established in 2003, is a small and medium-sized enterprise specializing in positive psychology, resilience, wellbeing, and personal development. IoD designs and delivers training, mentoring, and educational programmes for youth, educators, professionals, and organisations in Cyprus and across Europe. With extensive experience in Erasmus+ projects, the Institute integrates evidence-based approaches in mental health, inclusion, creativity, and soft skills development. IoD has delivered hundreds of workshops focused on emotional intelligence, self-awareness, youth empowerment, and employability skills. In the Laugh Together project, IoD leads the development of educational materials and training resources, ensuring that the comedy-based methodology is grounded in wellbeing and resilience principles.

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KMOP – Policy Center ASBL – Belgium

KMOP-Social Action and Innovation Centre was founded in Greece, in 1977, with the aim of combating poverty, strengthening social cohesion, and protecting fundamental human rights.
In recent years, alongside these core goals, KMOP has increasingly focused on the emerging challenges faced by modern societies, such as social isolation, inequalities, sustainable development, demographic ageing, and the risks posed by artificial intelligence. By combining hands-on experience from its social and educational services with research and statistical analysis, KMOP is uniquely positioned to provide technical assistance and policy recommendations to governments and institutional actors in Greece, Belgium and across the European countries where it operates. Over the last two decades, KMOP has launched more than 450 social innovation initiatives, positively impacting over 400.000 individuals with the support of both institutional and private donors. Additionally, KMOP actively participates in international networks that align with its mission including: COFACE Families Europe, the EQUALS Global Partnership, the Greek National Referral Mechanism for the Protection of Victims of Human Trafficking, the Athens Coordination Center for Migrant and Refugee (ACCMR), the European Migration Forum, the Radicalisation Awareness Network, the Hellenic Platform for Development, and the Diesis Network.

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ARTIT Athens – Greece

ARTIT is a Software as a Service (SaaS) arts and culture organization built on the
conviction that art is a transformative educational force, one that unlocks
self-expression and catalyzes meaningful change. By fusing creativity with
learning, ARTIT reimagines how we confront today’s most pressing global
challenges, turning artistic practice into a vehicle for awareness, dialogue, and
action.
At its core, ARTIT functions as a dynamic opportunity hub, connecting,
supporting, and rewarding visual artists from around the world. Through digital
portfolios and access to international exhibitions, residencies, and
collaborations, the platform serves thousands of artists, empowering them to
expand their reach and amplify their voices on a global stage.
ARTIT’s focus extends far beyond that. It harnesses the power of the arts to
engage communities and explore issues shaping everyday life, from climate
justice to social equity. Through transnational partnerships, ARTIT supports
cross-cultural exchange and ongoing dialogue, bringing together diverse
perspectives through collaborative practice.

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