Inclusion through Urban Art & FOlk Music Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inclusion through Urban Art & FOlk Music

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 2017

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

“Inclusion through Urban Art & Folk Music (UA&FOLK)” is 14-months capacity building project that involves seven organizations from six different countries (Cyprus, Guatemala, Italy, Nicaragua, Portugal and Spain), whose aim is to promote the mix (fusion) between urban art/hip hop and traditional folk music, as a tool for the inclusion of young people coming from ethnic minorities, migrants and/or having a familiar background of migration.
The main objectives of the project were:
-To improve key competences of artists belonging to ethnic
minorities and/or migrants with the aim of socially transforming their communities;
-To exchange and develop new educational tools in order to raise awareness about the inclusion of ethnic monitories and immigrants of the participating areas and countries, through musical fusion;
-To promote a higher quality of youth work, focusing on the inclusion of young
people with fewer opportunities, fostering internationalization of work on these topics;
-To create an international network of organizations that use art as a tool of social transformation, inclusion, and integral development, in order to promote the cooperation and exchange of good practice between Programme Country and other Partner countries of the world.

To achieve these objectives, different activities have been developed during the duration of the project:
-Transnational coordinating meeting in Nicaragua where partners specified strategies, working methods and details of future activities (agreements among partners, evaluation tools, monitoring systems, visibility activities, etc.);
-Local Activities I: definition of the situation of ethnic minorities, migrants and folk music in each country, mapping of stakeholders, identification of good practices, meeting with artists, diagnosis of priority profiles and learning needs.
-Mobility of youth workers/Training Course: a 1-week training about art, inclusion and music creation. Three participants for each partner organization took part, presenting the results of Local Activities I, exchanging good practices, creating new tools and improving their key competences, especially focused on inclusion and social transformation through musical fusion. At the same time the cooperation and exchange of knowledge, good practices and competences between Programme Countries and other countries of the world have been deepened.
-Local Activities II: implementation in each country of two workshops about art as educational tool and inclusion and social transformation through musical fusion where participants put into practice and spread their new competences. Visibility activity/ies in each country with local population.
-Mobility of youth workers/Job shadowing: one professional from each partner organization went to another partner country for an observation period of 13 days for knowing in situ the working methodology and activities of partner organizations, as well as providing new ideas and suggestions.
-Final conference in Nicosia (Cyprus): a 2-day event where, besides a general presentation of the project and its implementation in each country, the two main intellectual outputs of the project (eBook and video) have been presented. A visibility activity with local population has been also organized.

The methodology of the project was based on the pedagogical principles of non-formal education, pedagogy for liberation of Paulo Freire and emotional intelligence.

After the end of the project, we can state that participants have improved their competences, being agents of change in their local communities, capacities of partner organizations of the project and others of their local networks have increased and we contributed to the construction of a more fair, tolerant and inclusive society.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59994,1 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASOCIACION INICIATIVA INTERNACIONAL JOVEN & Country: ES

Project Partners

• GARCIA CASTRO JOSE
• ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE ESPRESSIONE HIP HOP
• INSTITUTO DE PROMOCION HUMANA (INPRHU)
• EL CIRCULO BREAKING
• ASSOCIACAO CULTURAL MOINHO DA JUVENTUDE
• POLITISTIKO ERGASTIRI AYION OMOLOYITON