Community-Based Rehabilitation through Interculture, Art and Antifragility Erasmus Project

Project Title

Community-Based Rehabilitation through Interculture, Art and Antifragility

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Creativity and culture; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

The Covid-19 has a significant impact on youth including mental health concerns, loneliness, isolation; challenges in family relationships, and education. The situation is much heavier for young refugees. UN refugee agency says that the consequences of COVID-19 for them are felt on many levels which result in stress, anxiety, and outbreaks of violence. Also, they lack social and psychological support from educational institutions. It is the most important time for youth organizations to support young people, in particular young refugees, especially for educational processes. For this, youth workers need to develop specific skills, learn new methods with the support of competent and cooperative youth organizations. Art helps stimulate creativity, it is a vector of social cohesion and allows people in need or difficulty to express themselves. Also, digital tools are the key elements for inclusion under the pandemic situation. Within this context, the objectives of our project are:
-foster the process of developing decision making, team working, communication, interaction, anti-fragility, creativity, process management skills of youth workers
-foster community-based rehabilitation and anti-fragility approaches among youth workers and the cultural&creative sector grassroots organizations
-promote resilience/antifragility of youth workers and associations, to face the global crisis and transform it into an opportunity
-develop and strengthen the digital, anti-fragility, artistic, cooperative, management, and creative skills of partner associations, strengthen cooperation among them
-promote non-formal education methods, creativity, art, and digitalism in youth work to build an inclusive educational environment for young refugees
-promote active citizenship, inclusion and foster creativity, culture, and multiculturalism among young people through art and digital tools
-raise awareness on refugee and pandemic issues in the community
The project is led by a consortium made of 6 organizations in 5 countries (Italy, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Turkey).
Participants:
– 12 youth workers (2 refugees) aged 18-30 (direct target group)
– 80 Young people (28 refugees) in the activities.
Beneficiaries and stakeholders: municipalities, NGOs working with refugees/youth/migrants, local communities.
Planned intellectual outputs (IO):
-IO1: Manual of Best Practices
-IO2: MigrART Toolkit
Methodology:
To design and implement the project, we used the project management cycle approach and the logical framework. For the activities and the production of IOs, we will use the community-based rehabilitation approach, anti-fragility concept, participatory design methods. Local activities and all trainings will be based on informal and non-formal education.
Activities:
-Preparation and publication of Manual of Best Practices (IO1) and MigrART Toolkit (IO2)
-Production of artistic outputs for a booklet on the topic “Isolation/Community”: Covid-19 from migrants, refugees and young people’s point of view, and videos to explain and illustrate the artistic output
-Thanks to a QR-code, a connection between the artistic output of the booklet and video explanation on YouTube
-The group built by young people will do teamwork to create a message for the community and design graffiti to be created in the local area
-Production of a short film to tell the story of the project and the stories of the participants
-Creation the 4 graffiti and link to the short film thanks to a QR code
-Dissemination
– MigrART Exhibition of Murales (multiplier event)
Results/Impact/Long-term Benefit:
-a new method developed for the inclusion of young refugees in educational environments/processes,
-trained youth workers who are able to use the Community Based Rehabilitation method and anti-fragility approach for social inclusion, especially in educational processes,
-increased digital, anti-fragility, artistic, cooperative, management, and creativity skills of youth workers,
-improved competence of youth workers to connect digital tools and art as a strategy to promote the process of inclusion,
-4 inclusive groups constituted by young people from the refugee background and young people from the local areas,
-trained 12 youth workers on using digital tools and art to create inclusive communities,
-80 young people participated actively in the decision-making processes in a group by the CBR approach,
-80 young people developed skills on art&digital tools,
-more creative and inclusive young people (80) who use art&digital tools to express their backgrounds/cultures and support multiculturalism in the community,
– more inclusive community constituted by all stakeholders
– more anti-fragile partners work on inclusion, refugee issues, and young people that can transform the crisis into opportunities
– increased digital, anti-fragility, artistic, cooperative, management, and creativity skills and solid/effective cooperation among partners.

Project Website

https://www.facebook.com/MigrArt-109670581268290

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 145740 Eur

Project Coordinator

Associazione Popoli Insieme ODV & Country: IT

Project Partners

• EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY ANALYSIS AND AFFAIRS
• Embaixada da Juventude
• DOMNA Associazione di promozione sociale
• FUNDACION RED INCOLA
• ISTANBUL AVRUPA ARASTIRMALARI DERNEGI