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INCA is a network of international organizations working in the field of arts and in the socio-educational sector. All these organizations develop their activities around two main points:

- the organization and management of meetings and trainings targeting young people, aimed at widening and deepening the tools of intercultural communication in their possession (training courses, theatrical workshops, art activities, multimedia, etc.)
- the reflection upon the integrated social-economic development, the cultural ransom, the struggle to fight exclusion, and the defense of human dignity.

Currently (2010) the Inca network includes associations Inca Italy (Benevento), Inca Spain (Barcelona), Inca UK (London), Inca Germany (Berlin), Inca Lithuania (Kaunas) that share the same Statute and partners in Portugal, France, Sweden, Turkey, Malta, Denmark, Latvia, Switzerland, Norway, Estonia, Morocco, and Argentina.

Our objective is to contribute to give young people with real experience a positive role in a world that changes with new and increasing forms of poverty and exclusion.

INCA has created an interdisciplinary team of professionals from different countries working mainly in disadvantaged local social contexts, located in areas of difficult access and in relationship to organizations working with the active participation of young people.

Our work is developed along three lines of action:

1 – Basic training
2 – Intervention (performances and realization of methodological cultural project coordination)
3 – Support (start up / development)

Our specializations are:

- theatre – multimedia – art and culture – animation and informal education – education for local development

The services that we offer are the following:

- training course – theatrical laboratories – artistic-cultural laboratories – theatrical shows -realization of festivals and events – intercultural exchanges – initiatives for young people – contact seminars- street animation – practical trainings – job-shadowing – visits of study – seminars and lectures – Networking

Since 2006, 5 associations Inca (Italy, UK, Spain, Germany, Lithuania) have created, developed and realized more than 30 international projects directly involving around a thousand of participants.