art neighboryouth Erasmus Project

Project Title

art neighboryouth

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: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

*context/background of project:
In youth work there was a great demand for a method which youth workers could use for the organisation and guidance of youth art communities in public space. This question was formulated by the particpating organisations. As an answer we developed a generic European roadmap with a special attention to local context of aspects. We presented this roadmap as a poster. The roadmap illustrates the process which we followed in four youth art communities which we organised in Belgium, Slovenia, Serbia and Bulgaria. Every community was formed by youngsters, youth workers (in education) and youth worker educators. The roadmap is realised in a digital (open source) and analog (free) version. The results were also implemented in trainings for youth workers. In the different countries several training activities were organised.

*objectives:
-Objective 1: Promoting high-quality of youth work. -> roadmap as tool for high quality youth work
-Objective 2: Promoting empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people.-> Youngsters choose social themes, such as food waste, gender equality, the role of minorities… This was the content topic for their youth art community.
-Objective 3: Strengthening education and training paths of educators and youth workers ->The result were implemented in trainings for youth workers.

*number and profile of participanting organisations:
Villa Basta: youth work organisation with a focus on arts
UC Limburg: youth worker education organisation
KRUG Art movement: youth work organisation with a focus on arts
EPEKA: youth work organisation with a focus on arts
European Confederation of Youth Clubs (ECYC): European network of youth work and youth club
Belgrade school for fine arts: educational trajectory for youth art work (associated partner, not financed)

*description of main activities:
The first three activities were the organisation and guidance of the local youth art communities in Belgium, Slovenia and Bulgaria. Every community was organised two times. The first time for five months. The second time, for four months. During those months the youngsters, youth workers, youth workers in education and youth worker educators will work together at least five times (every period). The big difference was the local context in which the community is organised. In Belgium we worked with a heterogeneous group of youngsters. In Bulgaria we worked with youngsters out of a Turkish minority in Dazhdovnitsa village. In Slovenia it were mostly female youngsters with a passion for art. These differences were the power of the project, because it provided if the generic roadmap was functional and useful in very different contexts. There was also an associated Serbian youth art community in the project. This partner financed the project for themselves.
In a line:
1. transnational YAC (Youth Art Community)
2. local YAC’s
3. transnational YAC
4. local YAC’s
5. transnational YAC
6. dessimination activity

As you see, we worked with an approach of community-based learning (at different levels: youngsters, youth workers (in education), youth worker educators).

*results and impact attained:
A generic European roadmap with special attention for local context of aspects was an important result of this project. This is a graphical map in de form of a poster. Youth workers can use this poster when they organise and guide a youth art community in public space. Before the project, this kind of methodology doesn’t exist. The developed poster visualises the processes of the communities. That communities refer to three youth art communities that we organised in Belgium, Bulgaria and Slovenia and one transnational youth art community that connects the communities in the different project countries. During the project we shared situations in the different communities using different media (text, photo, movie…) All the activities were also registered at our project blog www.artneigboryouth.eu

*longer term benefits:
Art Neigboryouth contributes for the moment widely to youth work in Europe. Before our project, there was in youth work no method to get to work with youngsters and arts in the public space. Within this project we developed a generic European roadmap with special attention for local context of aspects! The roadmap gives youth workers guidance for this kind of projects. The maps is widely distributed by ECYC and all the other partners. Each partner has a European network. Interim and final results were disseminated through these networks to youth organisations and training. Besides that, the ECYC guarantees a broad European distribution and embedding.The feedback at our dissemination moment was great! A lot of developed posters/publications has been spread. It is also important to name that the result has become a curriculum entity in the educational organisations in Belgium and Serbia partners. The other partners use it also to educate their youth workers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 41710 Eur

Project Coordinator

UC LIMBURG & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Europese Confederatie van Organisaties voor Jeugdcentra ECYC
• ZNANSTVENO-RAZISKOVALNO ZDRUZENJE ZA UMETNOST, KULTURNE IN IZOBRAZEVALNE PROGRAME IN TEHNOLOGIJO EPEKA, SOCIALNO PODJETJE
• KRUG Youth Center (Krug Art Movement)
• Villa Basta