Laugh Together

How can humour become a tool for intercultural dialogue and inclusion?

Polarisation, discrimination, and racism are structural realities across Europe, and the young people most affected are also the hardest to reach through conventional youth work. Traditional approaches fail to create the openness that real intercultural dialogue requires. Comedy, despite its proven ability to disarm and connect, remains almost absent from the educational curricula. Laugh Together uses comedy as a practical tool for intercultural exchange and social inclusion. Humour, by nature, lowers defences; it creates the conditions for difficult conversations to happen in a way that feels safe and human rather than instructional. Through comedy workshops, mentoring sessions, improvisation exercises, and public performances, young people from diverse backgrounds work together to develop routines that reflect their own stories and cultural realities. In the process, they build public speaking skills, critical thinking, and resilience, while youth workers gain concrete methods for engaging marginalised groups more effectively.