Rebel with a cause Erasmus Project

Project Title

Rebel with a cause

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: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Research and innovation

Project Summary

Rebel with a Cause
is a project that aims to explore the use of creative methods within youth work, strengthen the bond to organisations that are active in different art forms and show young people how art influences the way society is thinking.

Giving young people – especially those with lesser opportunities – a voice is one of the core aims of any professional youth work. Therefore showing young people how you can state your opinion in a peaceful way and still influence society is of great interest to all youth workers. Also during the COVID crisis now in 2020 we do see that those young people that have various froms of expressing themselves and spending their time in a meaningful way are getting better through periodes of lock down then others. This project strives to give more young people more opportunities to express themselves and discover talents and interests.

The youth work partners will choose from different forms of art/self-expression that are relevant and interesting for young people – circus, music, gaming and painting are on top of that list. With the support of experts from those fields they will engage young people (10 – 18 years) in experimenting with those art forms for expressing their ideas, needs and wishes around the overall common theme/topic “Planet Earth”.

The method used is “learning by doing” and developing new methods through finding out what works and what doesn´t for the young people. The activites are not just there for the fun of it, but should support classic youth work goals such as:
– higher self esteem
– youth participation
– discovering hidden talents
– inclusion and taking responsibly for our society

The monitoring of the project will give an answer to the question; what works and why – what fails and why. This knowledge will be disseminated through:
– a research report
– a manual for youth work organisations who wish to implement some of those new methods
– video tutorials on the methods that worked best for direct use of other youth workers.

. The project will close down with a youth mobility where all four groups can show case what they did and exchange with peers (young people and youth workers alike) from other countries their experiences. After this closing event we will distribute the gained knowledege and products in multiplier events in all four participating countries and disseminate all our materials on local, national and Europen level e.g. by publishing a dedicated issue of our LOGBOOK E-Magazine for professional open youth workers on the topic.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 137217 Eur

Project Coordinator

PROFESSIONELLE OFFENE JUGENDARBEITIN EUROPA, PROFESSIONAL OPEN YOUTHWORK IN EUROPE & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Offene Kinder- und Jugendeinrichtungen e. V.
• Udruga za promicanje kvalitetnog obrazovanja mladih s invaliditetom “ZAMISLI”
• Social Identity Research, Verein zur Erforschung kultureller Identitaet
• BUNDESWEITES NETZWERK OFFENE JUGENDARBEIT
• Ungdom & Fritid – Landsforening for fritidsklubber og ungdomshus