Peripheral Youth Makers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Peripheral Youth Makers

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: Rural development and urbanisation

Project Summary

This project proposal is associating spanish, italian and portuguese organizations working in the empowing and/or training youth from peripheral and rural areas. Those organisations are convinced that Youth, rural territories and creativity are key elements to face the different challenges that we are currently facing: COVID 19 crisis, but also the climate change emergency. During these last months we have witnessed how the health crisis and its set of restrictions (such as lockdown, social distancing, limits in meetings …) are destroying the already rare and fragile spaces available for youth in rural areas.

Through this project we intend to exchange ideas and experiences and to join forces in order to support Youth from rural areas in the creation of new local ecosystems for participation, collaboration and creativity to express themselves, connect, collaborate and formulate proposals and projects for the future of their territories, promoting new paradigms that seem more than needed nowaday.

The project partners will carry out this task following the steps, experienced and results ( methods for facilitation, digital platform …) of the “#PeripheralEncounters for Arts, Culture and Youth” pilot initiative that has been developed in the Alto Palancia county (Castellón / Spain) from September 2019 to July 2020.

During the 16 months of the project, the partners will then structure their exchanges and intervention in the territory according to the following steps:
– step 0: identifying local agents, creating local steering committees involving young people and local artists;
– step 1: breaking the isolation of young people living in rural areas and encouraging their participation in creative and cultural actions linked to the life of their territories,
– step 2: promoting collaboration in rural territories and fostering networking initiative both locally and globally,
– step 3: creating and promoting new narratives about the past, present and future of rural territories;
– step 4:evaluation of impacts

To accompany this process, the following activities will be organized:
– 2 transnational project meetings (at the beginning and end of the project)
– 3 international #PeripheralYouthMakers training courses to prepare steering comittees to lead steps 1, 2 and 3 of the project and to foster exchanges of experiences;
– a minimum of 9 #PeripheralEncounters in each of the territories involved in the project: Alto Palancia region (Castellón / Spain), Aragon region, Peneda Gerês National Park in Portugal and Apennine Mountains National Park in the north of Italy.
– an awareness campaign on “being young in rural settings” in collaboration with local festivals ;

During all the activities and encounters, these open spaces form meeting and collaborate will be facilitated with dynamics based non-formal education principle, always focusing on group processes rather than short-term results. The project partners will also carry out mediation tasks with key public and private institutions in order to consolidate these spaces and to foster sustainability to the initiatives (individual or collective) incubated during those encounters at local or european levels.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 53588 Eur

Project Coordinator

EUROPIMPULSE NETWORK & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ASSOCIAZIONE LEGAMBIENTE LIGONCHIO
• ASSOCIACAO SOCIAL RECREATIVA JUVENTUDE VILA FONCHE
• CENTRO PARA EL DESARROLLO DE LAS COMARCAS DEL MAR DE ARAGÓN