Arts Without Borders. “Building Bridges” Erasmus Project

Project Title

Arts Without Borders. “Building Bridges”

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 2016

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

ARTS WITHOUT BORDERS. “Building Bridges” (AWB) is an arts, educational, multi dimensional, transnational project coordinated by NICOLA (United Kingdom) in partnership with NICOLA (France), Projeto Presente (Brazil) and Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication (Senegal) , aimed to youth within the field of arts and digital literacy. It pursues to have an impact in both youngsters and their communities giving an arts/media/digital literacy training focused on the use of digital tools, transnational networking and the creation of open access materials with the final objective of enabling the youngsters to create their own enterprise, working groups or associations, and also providing them with formal and non formal learning which will help them in their future career development. ARTS WITHOUT BORDERS. “Building Bridges” is an arts/media training course which foresees a programme with mobility activities held in London (UK), Strasbourg (France), Serra do Cipó (Brazil) and Dakar (Senegal). 28 youths and sixteen youth workers met in these four locations within a period of 24 months and engaged in a variety of activities which included workshops in arts and digital literacy, enterprising and networking within the field of the cultural industry, innovative techniques and learning methods and personal development. Events such as debates and a seminar were also planned and included. The creation of final materials for lifelong learning (OER) is available in a web platform (https://www.nicolaartswithoutborders.com/), which was of the main objectives of the project. Its creation has the purpose of sharing and developing open access content as well as serving as a meeting point for further collaborations between the four organisations/regions. There was a variety of activities, focused on workshops in music, media and creative industry, mixed with the last trends in technology, researching and learning within the field, while taking the command of their own productions. The topics addressed were freedom of speech, civil society engagement, human rights, tolerance within different cultures and personal development through arts as key features. As its names suggests, the main focus of this project is to overcome borders, not only geographical ones, but socioeconomic, ethnic and cultural ones, mixing arts and digital tools/resources. We aimed and achieved to build bridges, connecting the youth and fostering cooperation amongst them, preventing the isolation created by borders, which we pretend to overcome through arts and digital tools. We pursue to enhance the relations South-North in the field, creating positive synergies and effective and lasting cooperation beyond the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 132442,8 Eur

Project Coordinator

NEW INTERNATIONAL COMPANY OF LIVE ARTS & Country: UK

Project Partners

• ASSOCIACAO PROJETO PRESENTE
• BIGBOSS PROJECT
• MINISTERE DE LA CULTURE ET DE LA COMMUNICATION