On October 9 and 10, 2025, Initiative for Development and Cooperation (IDC) organized an Experimental Laboratory on Human Dignity, Equality, and Anti-Discrimination as a creative and participatory approach in exploring core European and human rights values through art, music and dialogue.

The Laboratory brought together young people from diverse cultural backgrounds — including migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and returnees in Serbia — to build empathy, intercultural understanding, and social inclusion.

The methodology employed interactive, non-formal education and creative expression to facilitate the sharing of experiences and mutual learning among participants. Through interactive workshops and artistic and music expression, participants reflected on what human dignity, equality, and anti-discrimination mean in their lives and communities.

The process encouraged mutual learning, open discussion, and creative freedom — using art and music, as tools for dialogue and connection.

The participants left the program with a stronger knowledge and appreciation of European values, enhanced empathy, mutual understanding, and a sense of solidarity, tangible creative outputs — mural and song that symbolize shared human values.