‘Destination Carnival’ – Cultural Tourism as a vector for youth Development Erasmus Project

Project Title

‘Destination Carnival’ – Cultural Tourism as a vector for youth Development

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture

Project Summary

‘Destination Carnival’ – Cultural Tourism as a Vector for Youth Development was a series of innovative capacity building and youth development actions, that brought together young people, arts workers and wider stakeholders in order to develop, plan and realize large-scale cultural events.

Across the world the carnival arts sector (within the wider context of cultural tourism) makes valuable and significant contributions to the social, cultural and economic development needs of young people and the wider community. The carnival sector is a globalized creative industry, that represents one of the most rapidly expanding global tourism initiatives. Our partners recognize that this aspect of intangible culture provides significant opportunities for young people’s mobility, development and employment and supports individual and group innovation and creativity, whilst promoting social inclusion and cultural diversity.

Our programme partners are from United Kingdom, India and South Africa.

The partners collaborated and cooperated on capacity building training activities; arts engagement projects; cultural initiatives; periods of voluntary service, youth exchanges and professional networking that had a measured and significant impact on their capabilities to operate and act within a globalized carnival sector. This project engaged professional practitioners who facilitated and supported the delivery of training and creative work with young people from backgrounds of less opportunity, as well as pass on valuable skills and knowledge.

The different stages within our project include:

1: ‘kick off’ meeting with Capacity building/training for artists, youth workers and young people;
2: Hosting and sending of European Voluntary Service;
3. Workshops that engaged wider peers groups;
4: Transnational youth exchanges (including capacity building actions);
5. Large-scale youth meetings;
6: Final capacity building and evaluation meeting.

The carnival sector is a growth cluster for economic activity with the potential for combating unemployment increasingly recognized. Our project complimented the importance of cultural development as a contribution to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Through building the skills, knowledge, experience and competences of our partners and project participant’s we enhanced their capacity and capability to develop employment and operate within a globalized arts sector.

Our objectives were to:

Explore compare and contrast models of best practice in carnival arts engagement in programme/partner countries (including carnival dance and costume design and making);
Enable young people to develop employment opportunities within the cultural/carnival sector;
Gain new competences and experiences of carnival event management;
Engage young people in decision making and delivery of large-scale carnival events;
Provide opportunities for capacity building for workers and young people in cultural sector environments.

This Key Action 2 project Capacity Building in the Field of Youth project looked to deepen our relationship with our partners through mobility actions (capacity building trainings, EVS and exchanges) that further engaged young people and workers in developing sustainable collaborative work that assisted young people’s employment, building their capacity to operate within a globalized arts and cultural sector. The project also looked to internationalize and professionalize the cultural partner organisations through ongoing sustainable collaboration through carnival arts work.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 110225,04 Eur

Project Coordinator

BROUHAHA INTERNATIONAL & Country: UK

Project Partners