The project in summary

Art-education activities and workshops for minors and youth with different migration, cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

The project in detail

The “PYXIDA NEWS” project aims to:

  • offer minors and youth with different migration, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, an art-based psychosocial support as a tool to explore their emotions, strengthen their communication skills, and foster a sense of belonging and shared identity within a safe and protected environment;
  • strengthen the formal protection and psychosocial support framework of minors and youth with a migration background through the arts as a tool that fosters their resilience, their psycho-emotional and mental well-being;
  • bridge, through the arts, the gap between the formal integration systems and the social emotional, and creative needs of minors and youth with a migration background;
  • develop an art-based educational and social inclusion model replicable among a broader population of minors with a migration background;
  • transfer the approach and creative methods developed at PYXIDA to reception centers, schools, and NGOs that work daily with migrants and refugees.
  • Approximately 95-135 minors and youth with a migration background (7-18 ages), including 25-35 unaccompanied minors;
  • Approximately 300 people from the local community (teachers, facilitators, staff from partner organizations, family members).

In 2026, Greek Council for Refugees (GCR), also with the support of Alta Mane, intends to consolidate the several art-education activities offered at PYXIDA Intercultural Center through an innovative and Youth-led educational approach that combines art and technology and, in parallel, to replicate its intervention, initiated in 2025, in 2 mixed schools of Athens, 3 NGOs active in the support and care of minors with a migration background, and 3 Shelters dedicated to the reception of unaccompanied minors. To this end, GCR plans to carry out the following activities:

  • 12 Youth-Led Focus Groups based on visual and performing arts;
  • 40-44 artistic and theatrical workshops, during which 3-4 multilingual podcasts and one theatrical performance will be produced;
  • 12 editorial workshops, during which 5 digital editions of PYXIDA NEWS Magazine will be produced;
  • 1 PYXIDA Summer Camp (July 2026), during which 20 art-education workshops will be conducted;
  • 4 art-based community initiatives;
  • production and dissemination of the “PYXIDA Toolkit”.