Celebrating cultural diversity in urban space Erasmus Project

Project Title

Celebrating cultural diversity in urban space

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

« Celebrate cultural diversity in urban space » is a project focused on an actual problem, the capacity of the cultural stakeholders to maintain intercultural activities in an environment becoming hostile because of the tendency of the population to close on itself, and targeted a theme on the agenda, the security in cultural places and events, and in particular the risks linked to the terrorist attacks and their consequences on the creative and managerial jobs.

With a cultural, social and societal aim, the project gathered 4 cultural organizations with different status, roles, experiences and complementary skills, and having in common an expertise regarding teaching methods:
-Samba Resille, coordinator, expert in creating major events in public spaces, and spaces of artistic and inclusive practices, in particular for people with mental or sensorial disability;
-Enjoy, the Italian partner, expert in using technics from the Commedia Dell’arte and the contemporary theatre of Grotowski, to facilitate the creation of freed learning spaces ;
-Infopress media bt., the Hungarian partner, specialized in training musicians and looking for promoting an intercultural dialogue in a closed country ;
-Artscape, the South African partner, with the experience of a cultural and international enterprise, and the expertise of managing very risky situations and zones before and after the Apartheid.

The project had the global objective to develop the capacities of the participants to organize, communicate, adapt and act, around 4 transnational learning activities (one per country gathering 16 people among the staff of the partnership), each time corresponding to a transnational meeting gathering 8 participants among the staff of the partnership and concerning coordination, management, communication and follow-up of the learning process for the direct beneficiaries, meaning 93 individual mobilities.

Each organization identified key people dedicated to the different themes of the project (coordination of the activities, administrative management, and communication), integrated the administrative rules of the European projects for cooperation, and had all the previous experiences in the management of Erasmus + projects.

The participants benefited from learning spaces and exchanges of good practices, co-built in a program of activities adapted to the capacities of the participants, in answer of the needs diagnosed before the application. It followed 4 specific objectives:
-increase the capacities to manage skills, careers, quality and internationalization;
-learn how to conciliate and deal with the emotional security of the learners and the material safety of creative spaces ;
-act to build answers to identitarian closure and promote the dialogue between cultures
-reinforce the creative and international cooperation and create the conditions for its sustainability.

This program of activities allowed to :
-receive and share good practices of social, economic, participative and inclusive governance, in an environment favorable to the exchanges, flows and common creations of knowledge between the participants, thanks to a work on common values, what is at stake in the capitalization of experiences and educational valorization in annual reports of organizations, and securing professional careers in the artistic and cultural sector;
– learn how to conceive and offer freed educational environments, favorable to the inclusion of vulnerable audiences in their non-formal learning process, through Commedia dell’arte and Grotowski technics;
-analyze the national public policies and the NGO practices regarding the migratory flows, the new problems of security and the inclusion of the most vulnerable;
-learn how to evaluate the risks and to develop our own creativity to conceive the compensatory measures through analytic exercises with the example of a major festival and confronting the works with experts on safety and security in public spaces.

These activities and results, consistent with the expected ones, had been supervised by the Steering Committee, which gathered the representatives of the 4 partners, ventilated and planned all the tools and active procedures throughout the life cycle of the project around a longitudinal, appreciative and participative evaluation. These tools guaranteed a full participation of all the stakeholders to measure the results, the changes and the impacts of this project to an international dimension, to make readable its dissemination, the exploitation of the results and to guarantee its sustainability.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121883 Eur

Project Coordinator

SAMBA RESILLE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ARTSCAPE
• Associazione Enjoy
• INFOPRESS MÉDIA Bt.