My Icon Your icon Erasmus Project

Project Title

My Icon Your icon

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Transport and mobility; Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The Covid Pandemic – 19 has affected all our certainties and our habits. The most affected by the overturning of the habits of life are young people who have to face new changes and new challenges but who have before them the possibility of creating a new way of life with new values ​​and ideals.
We need to spread and cement the foundations for a new ground that can give birth to a new “spring”, the spring of the European peoples.
Solidarity, humanity and a sense of community are feelings that give us the measure of how to overcome the growth of the Covid Pandemic – 19.
Great challenges await us, especially challenges that seek to revive the cultural sectors, perhaps among the most affected by the Covid 19 Pandemic.
My Icon Your Icon is a research, selection and dissemination project of the historical and artistic heritage of the countries involved through the reinterpretation of Sacred Icons in a contemporary key. It is a project aimed at enhancing the skills and competences of young artists, creatives, designers, celebrating them within the places of our culture.
My Icon Your Icon aims to activate the connections between young creatives, designers and artists and the European territory in a network of mutual exchanges.
The project promotes and strengthens culture and creativity as a means of social inclusion, updates the skills of young creatives involved, improves opportunities for young people and youth employment.The characteristics of the group of participants are:
– Young people between 18 and 30 years old
– familiarity with digital technology
– their identity has to do with self-expression, especially through visual and artistic elements, also disseminated on social networks.
– global generation, but with a passion for the local
– benefits from both a cultural and a more traditional offer and that present in the new formats, which provide for constant interaction and proactive involvement of users.
The activities that will take place will focus on travel and the exchange of good practices:
Each partner will have to select 3 participants in the project
-artist / graphic designer / photographer / writer / story telling / copywriter ..
For each mobility the partners must organize:
– 1 day visit to the place of conservation of the sacred icon of the city
– 1 day of bibliographic study of the Sacred Icon
– 2 days of workshop / course where project participants will work on the interpretation of the Sacred Icon in a contemporary key
– Widespread dissemination to actively raise awareness and promote examples of local, national and transnational good practices.
Fundamental activities will be the organizational meetings between partners whose objective is both the organization of the activities and the measurement of the results achieved during the project.
Further activities will be the online conferences, which each partner will organize before the transnational trip. Both the bodies involved and the young people selected to participate in the project will participate, c
Conceived as a training, experiential, relational and learning by doing laboratory, it develops a path based on complexity and on the dialogue between different disciplines, an intertwining between knowing how to do and knowing how to be. The idea is to promote laboratory activities, to express and enhance the skills and competences of young people and, at the same time, use them as tools for the exchange and transmission of know-how.
The project aims to support and enhance creative abilities in the field of artistic and cultural production, encourage the exchange of know-how through moments of in-depth study and exchange of experiences and promote the channels of creativity and expressiveness favored by the young population.Through the involvement and full participation in the project activities, young people will have the opportunity to:
– Learning new skills as a means of social inclusion, socialization and relationships;
– Improve their knowledge on artistic / creative / communicative methods;
– Support the promotion and dissemination of the artistic and cultural values ​​of the partner countries;
– increase their skills in the creative-artistic field;
– become aware of their abilities and their “value”;
– express their ideas and their artistic-creative skills;
– share and transfer the acquired know-how to other peers;
– strengthen the participation and the protagonism of young people; From the web portal of the project it is possible to book a guided tour of the partner countries participating in the project.
The long-term benefits will be of employment value through the platform that you intend to design which will be:
– managed by project participants and partner associations
– highly performing and able to customize guided tours

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 67425 Eur

Project Coordinator

FORMACAL & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Κοιν.Σ.ΕΠ. “EDU-EUROPE”
• Lidi Smart Solutions
• ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT MARKETING GATE SKOPJE