Teen Advisory Board – In Character Erasmus Project

Project Title

Teen Advisory Board – In Character

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: Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

‘Teen Advisory Board – In Character’ is a transnational active learning programme for 16-21 year olds from a wide variety of backgrounds. It looks at language, behaviour, and structures within the arts, using the formats of the Teen Advisory Boards (TABs) and roleplay to strengthen the influence, knowledge, organisational skills and cultural participation of young people. It produces young agency in the artworld – influencing institutions, reaching the public, and widening access to culture for young people.

Focusing on inclusion in the arts, the Teen Advisory Board (TAB)’s selection criteria prioritises young people who have had limited contact with the arts. Bringing together young people from across sections of society, its core long term goal is to enable a more inclusive artworld; by encouraging a shift in the demographics of who works in the field, and therefore the perspectives and priorities of those who programme its institutions.

The Teen Advisory Board, supported by PRAKSIS (Oslo), Index (Stockholm) and Publics (Helsinki), form the core working group who arrange and evaluate the project. The ‘In Character’ programme is the result of these partners working in digital transnational dialogue over the past year. The project represents an innovative development in their collaboration that will increase their collective exchange and learning, while going through the research, development, production and dissemination of public facing outputs that will have wide transnational resonance.

Over 20 months, two TAB groups in Stockholm and Oslo with 10 dedicated members each (up to 40 total participants) receive mentoring and support as they engage with institutions, artists and other arts professionals to develop research and outputs including; a blog, conferences, publications (printed and online), and radio broadcasts (also available as podcasts). These outputs aim to bring innovative, accessible research and tools relating to inclusion in the arts field and working with young people to audiences including other young people, those who work with young people, and a general public interested in art and society.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 127684 Eur

Project Coordinator

PRAKSIS & Country: NO

Project Partners

• Stiftelsen Index -The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation
• CHECKPOINT HELSINGIN TUKIYHDISTYS RY