Ethno Vibes: Creating International Cooperation Network Between Cultural and Youth Workers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Ethno Vibes: Creating International Cooperation Network Between Cultural and Youth Workers

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 : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Creativity and culture; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Project main objective–to create an international cooperation network between culture and youth workers, organizations by fostering, trying to maintain authentic local traditions as cultural heritage through ethno festivals. We will seek to increase youth‘s knowledge regarding the importance of the European cultural heritage, highlighting that cultural heritage is the basic value in the context of rapid globalization and by fostering it we significantly contribute to the uniqueness of nations, preservation of historical memory.
As the main measure to preserve the old ethnographic traditions, we consider passing it from generation to generation. Cultural heritage in its authentic form hardly competes with the interests of digitized society. The youth is oriented to the fast result,mobility which threatens the extinction of traditions, loss of uniqueness. We will invoke festivals as an attractive form of leisure for the youth to pass them the traditional heritage. However, the content and form of existing festivals in Lithuania,especially in regions, aren‘t influencing youth. Thus we see a need for an initiative to combine traditional ethno festivals with modern methods for transferring content. For this purpose, we need to gain experiences of such fusion from our partners in other countries. Lithuanian partners will share their experiences on how they preserved the authenticity of traditions while historical,social,economic circumstances were changing. Common benefit for all partners will be the creation of international,interdisciplinary cooperation network and the following activities.
There will participate 30 persons in the project‘s activities: curators of region and district cultural affairs from 3 partner countries, which plan, carry out local cultural policy,organize,implement local cultural projects and also members of youth organizations, youth workers, participants of youth initiatives.
Participants representing youth and cultural field will significantly contribute to improving skills of cultural workers on how to organize ethno festivals at the same time corresponding to the youth expectations. Also improve competences, work with youth quality by methods of non-formal education and looking for non-traditional ways of youth inclusion,revealing new fields, at this case-organization of cultural events by promoting cooperation between organizations.
Teaching,learning activities of the target group will take the biggest part of all project activities,will significantly contribute to raising participants’ qualifications, promoting innovations, changing best practices at interinstitutional, international level. Learning activities will have added value in achieving the project‘s objectives because it will increase knowledge on European cultural heritage, promote intercultural dialogue,tolerance,making personal,professional contacts,initiating common projects,youth self-expression,responsibilities,critical thinking.
There is created a new participatory method in the project–project‘s objectives will be achieved by invoking innovative, complex measures when work with participants will be implemented giving them possibilities to know the topic from different angles, gaining not only theoretical knowledge but also trying it in practice at the project time. For this purpose will be invoked these methods: expert presentations,teamwork in groups,dialogue development,practical engagement,observation of the activities.
We are seeking long term effects on the target group, their represented organizations, project partners‘ organizations, regional cultural, youth organizations, cultural consumers. For this purpose, we will seek these results at project period, after it:
1) to create international cooperation network between cultural and youth workers, organizations which will create conditions to attract new financial, human resources because of developing common innovative projects;
2) in all 3 partner countries at the project period and/or after it will be involved youth in organizing ethno festivals, transmitted expert knowledge, gained skills will increase professionality of the participants, ensure higher quality of organized ethno and other local festivals. This will promote development of cultural tourism, increase knowledge about the area, contribute in creating feeling of welfare, attract more visitors to the events, new business, thus will be created added economic value;
3) there is planed during the project with partners to prepare preliminary common future international project concept on the field of youth inclusion. Thus we will ensure direct continuity of the project, further partners‘ cooperation, even bigger inclusion of target groups;
4) policymakers of the partners‘ represented regions will use the results of the project while preparing strategical activity documents. This will ensure the maintenance of the project‘s results and continuity at the political level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97445 Eur

Project Coordinator

VšĮ “Euroregiono Ežerų kraštas direktorato biuras” & Country: LT

Project Partners

• KUNSILL LOKALI TAL-IMTARFA
• Spunto Sviluppo Sociale Associazione di promozione sociale