Escape to diversity

About the project

Escape to diversity is a project that is being implemented by Logos together with partners from V4 countries. At this project, we will gather youth workers from Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia in order to educate them about the usage of escape rooms as a tool. We will dedicate this project to topics of tolerance and inclusion. In May 2021, we will meet in Poltava where we will spend 10 days learning about the usage of escape rooms for educational purposes. At the end of the training course, we will build 3 working escape rooms, which we will open for external guests to play. After the training course, we will release the manual on how to create escape rooms for educational purposes which will be available for anybody. This project is possible thanks to the support of the Visegrad fund.

Visegrad Fund

The Fund is an international donor organization, established in 2000 by the governments of the Visegrad Group countries—Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to promote regional cooperation in the Visegrad region (V4) as well as between the V4 region and other countries, especially in the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership regions.

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The main issue that we want to focus on is low level of knowledge and acceptance of different cultures and nationalities in our countries. Recent events in our countries and generally in eastern Europe showed that there is a rise of intolerance, xenophobia and racism. Minorities and migrants, are perceived with hate and often marginalised both by individuals, groups and officials (http://bit.ly/vifued1, http://bit.ly/vifued2). Levels of discrimination towards people of different ethnics are high in:

Additionally Ukraine is one of the close neighbours for V4 countries, but it is still unknown and often misunderstood. Perception of Ukrainians in Poland is quite bad and has negative tendency over last 30 years with 32% of Poles having negative perception of Ukrainians. Czechia and Slovakia have problems with discrimination of Roma and other minorities. We want to influence on the negative trend of intolerance and misunderstanding towards people of different ethnicity, especially concerning minorities.

Learn more about the cultures of project partner countries as well as about the tolerance and inclusion

Reduce negative effects of intolerance, xenophobia and racism

Learn about such tool as escape rooms and how it can be implemented in educational processes

Increase the mobility of young people living in the territory of the Visegrad Four countries

Phase	Description of the phase
01/07/2020–14/05/2021	Preparation of the project's activities
15/05/2021–25/05/2021	Training course on creation of escape rooms for educational purposes in Poltava
23/05/2021–23/05/2021	Open event during the training course. Link for the open event https://www.facebook.com/events/777720896384135
26/05/2021–25/06/2021	Preparation and release of the manual on creation of escape rooms for intercultural education