LAWrider Erasmus Project

Project Title

LAWrider

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

LAWrider is an international youth initiative based on the proposition of highschool students is realised in the partnership of VOX NOVUM,Romania,SKWHAT,Croatia and Elephant Studio,Hungary with the continuous cooperation of young people and other associations between 01/02/2016 – 31/03/2017.Target group:First of all highschool students and highschool students who created 10 skatchfilm series (each episodes are 10­-15 min long) about human rights in an international cooperation and 10 lesson plans related to the films which was widely distributed online and offline format across Europe.Further target group:teachers, youth workers interested in human rights, human rights organizations who have contributed to the dissemination, sustainability and further development of the project results. During the project the young people received all the professional and mentoring support.Outcomes:6 weekly-­based drama and film workshop, which provide long-term continuation, learning and creative opportunities for the participants, and for the later joining youth people.Aims:human rights education especially for secondary school students
Dissemination of the widely spread human rights articles and using art for the creative process
Cooperation in the balance of duties, obligations and human rights
Creativity, developing the “Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship” key competence
Development, education of the youth, help of their education, make them more sensitive to their peers and society
Global understanding
International dimension:Internationality, cultural awareness
Strengthening the cooperation between participants and youth organizations
Erase the pyhsical borders in the heads between the involved young people and professionals
acceptance, tolerance, understanding
Strengthening cross-border cooperations
Our projectpartners:SKWHAT (Croatia) and Asociatia VOX NOVUM (Romania): film making, acting, youth work
Our cooperating organisations:D2 Ifjúsági Fejlesztő- és Médiaközpont: youth work,Belvárosi Mozi: consulting about film and cinema questions
Szegedi Egyetemi Színház: possibility of consultation about drama questions,Motiváció Oktatási Egyesület: involvement and addressing of disadvanteged youth people.
Activities:Online, offline coordinating activity per month: coordinating discussion, evaluation, projekt discussion, conservations, collecting competencies
Film workshop: script writing, development, characters, development of characters, classification of film genres, choosing (of) the right place(s for the shots , technical knowledge (using the camera, camera equipments, sound and voice recording and so on)
Drama workshop: improvisation and acting practice, preparing for the shoots, on-site trials
Plenary meetings: discussions, evaluations, youth work; 4 offline International Plenary Meetings (get to know sessions and human rights training, Midterm Evaluation, Three-Quarterly Evaluation, LAWrider Final Show- final event) national plenary meetings according to timetable
Team building activities
Human rights training
Production management
Shooting
Post-production: cutting, after effects, subtitle, logo
Dissemination activities, dissemination, special school lessons
Making lessonplans for short films
Additional activities to the project, human rights flashmob, LAWrider inspired themes (report, video clip)

Effect on Participants:
They have extensive knowledge of human rights, their positive attitudes towards human rights have been strengthened. They have gained competencies that help in adult life. They have learned to work in a team, their self-knowledge has evolved, their creative skills have strengthened. They have worked as part of an international team and experienced that borders are not an obstacle to cooperation. Their euroregional identity has strengthened. They became proactive, initiating people. They have been built relationships, which may later have an influence on their lives. They could deepen in the cinematic and theatrical career, and they could base their future career.

Effect on Organisations:
Get to know each other’s activities, generating common projects, and helping each other in the future. He has gained experience in youth work and international co-operation. They have a voluntary youth base. Workshops were created.

Effect on target groups:
New methodological material was added, and teachers received additional non-formal educational materials. Members of the youth group understood the issue of human rights and became more sensitive to the subject. They were given opportunity, who interested in film making and acting, to join in a well-established workshop.Effect on others:Making more relationships,increasing the number of young people involved in their activities and increasing their profile,were part of a positive initiative that grew in the positive attitudes of their target group.Strengthening and strengthening of knowledge,attitudes and rights related to human rights.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 19750 Eur

Project Coordinator

Creative Elephant Studio Kft & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Koordinacija udruga mladih Siska
• Asociatia Vox Novum