COOLture among young people Erasmus Project

Project Title

COOLture among young people

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Creativity and culture; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

“COOLture among young people” project aims at the long-term preservation of the European Cultural Heritage through promotion, awareness and intercultural cooperation and commitment of relevant stakeholders and youth NGOs. The project emphasises on open cultural heritage education through the creation of specific instruments available for the public and the implementation of training’s in this field for both the staff of the involved partners but also for the youngsters of the communities involved. As a final result, the project will raise awareness on the importance of cultural heritage in the lives of young people and in the prosperous development of regional communities by creating international instruments and actions in all 5 countries, that will promote and remind young people about their local patrimony. By creating different tools (apps, platform, booklet, toolkit) we will enable young people to learn about the existent European Heritage from partner regions and to have a unique cultural experience.
The main aim of this project is to exchange best practices and to contribute to the growth of social business related to Cultural Heritage of the 5 communities by using non-formal education and digital instruments created by young people.
Specific objectives:
1. Increase no. of social businesses through the training of at least 70 youth workers from 5 countries in entrepreneurial skills / cultural management, during 10 months
2. Raise awareness among at least 1000 youth on the importance of European Cultural Heritage through youth engagement in order to foster its long-lasting preservation.
2. Improve local / national tourism by involving young people in the development of digital tools to promote their cultural heritage.
We plan to train total of 70 Youth workers, divided in three groups (30/15/25). Training session is a five-day course (C2-C3) and 7 day – C1, consisting of theory, informational materials, workshops, case studies and an in-depth presentation of the material and tools applying in each case.
The 2 Blended mobility for young people that we envisage aim at motivating and at giving youth the right skills, tools and information in order for them to develop their own social businesses in Cultural Heritage domain – and also to improve their knowledge about this aspect (contribute to the preservation of their patrimony). The aim of the project is also to meet other targets of
the European Union Youth Strategy to ‘support the development of creativity among young people – ‘increase access to culture and creative tools.
With the help of young people and experts we will create the following:
1. “Discover your region” mobile applications that will include: real time notifications on the cool things going on in the participating cities; running-routes in all cities, where people can keep records of their activity and discover new and interesting running routes, based on different levels of difficulty or on what you want to see along the way; touristic / historical routes – where people can discover their history and patrimony (made by young people).
2. The platform will include besides the Booklet and the Toolkit also some innovative parts – using IT technology. One part will be Teen Digital Museum – to create a hashtag, teach youngsters about technology and photography, empower them to create a digital museum of their culture. A second part will be TeenCast – Podcast for teens that features interviews with artists, entrepreneurs, professionals, youth workers. Third part Guided Tours – Teens of cities involved will help create a map of their go-to places (most attractive to youth).
Another important section will be – Digital History of the cities – we will create digital representations of the most important (representative) buildings and/or represent the city in different historical ages, based on available descriptions. One last part of the platform will include an online store for young entrepreneurs – that sell local products.
All these features of the IOs are innovative for the communities of the 5 partners of the project – “COOLture for young people”.
Also we plan to develop instruments for youth workers – IO2 and IO2 – training material on Social Entrepreneurship and Cultural Heritage.
“COOLture among young people” project is developed to lead to innovative outputs, and engage into intensive dissemination and exploitation activities of the newly produced products and ideas. For this reason, ensuring a long lasting, multi-level impact is our high priority. This project is here to create the conditions for important positive changes, benefits and long term effects in the youth field, both in the countries involved, as well as all over Europe.
All partners have a good history both in terms of thematic approach towards labour market initiatives and creating change at social level, hence the project is ensured to have a sustainable long term impact.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 225562,8 Eur

Project Coordinator

Asociatia AXA DE DEZVOLTARE BRASOV-BUCURESTI-CONSTANTA & Country: RO

Project Partners

• ASSOCIAZIONE DI PROMOZIONE SOCIALE YOUNG EFFECT
• HANTA ASSOCIATES LIMITED
• SDRUZENIE AKTIVNO BALGARSKO OBSHTESTVO
• Gminny Ośrodek Kultury