Cultural Heritage for Youth Economic Empowerment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cultural Heritage for Youth Economic Empowerment

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

“Cultural Heritage for Youth Economic Empowerment” is a strategic partnership project of four organisations from France, Nice – continental France and Martinique – Caribbean France, Estonia and Turkey. The project aims to empower youth workers and young people by a cultural heritage learning approach which enables to improve basic competences in entrepreneurship and get employed. By using cultural heritage for youth economic empowerment, partners will preserve European cultural heritage and contribute to the entrepreneurship education, job creation, economic growth and social cohesion which is one of priorities in Erasmus+ Programme.

The idea of project is based on celebrating unique cultural heritage and use it as an efficient tool for reducing youth unemployment. The European Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage reflects the common set-up for heritage-related activities at European level, primarily in EU policies and programs. During the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, over 6.2 million people took part in more than 11,700 events organised across 37 countries. The European Commission implemented ten long-term European Initiatives as a main policy input for the Year. It proposes around 60 actions which European Commission are implementing in 2019 and 2020. These actions seek to promote and protect European cultural heritage.

Partners of this project decided to use this momentum and combine learning about cultural heritage for economical empowerment. Youth unemployment is still high in Europe. EU supports reducing youth unemployment by increasing the youth employment rate in the line with the wider EU target of achieving 75% employment rate for the working-age population (https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1036).
Partners consider that every young person has certain competencies which can be developed, improved and shared with others. Both celebrating cultural heritage and reducing youth unemployment in Europe, partners want to build strategic partnership on the European level and exchange good practices for better quality youth work, so young people will be more aware of their cultural heritage and get improved by gaining entrepreneurship competences in the fields of tourism, cooking, handcraft, music, singing and dancing.

Our general objectives of the project are:
– to learn about cultural heritage and its importance in youth work;
– to increase awareness about cultural heritage’s contribution to job creation, economic growth and social cohesion;
– to promote entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship in youth fields.

The specific objectives of our project are:
– to gather information about good practices, projects, programs and previous activities and projects about cultural heritage for economic empowerment,
– to identify needs and barriers, to set up successful mentoring program that will support and lead our target groups – youth workers and young people,
– to collect good practices in E-Book and provide training for the target groups ,
– to exchange non-formal methods between project partners’ organisations,
– to create a friendly environment for young people for learning,
– to improve a holistic approach that consist of training, mentoring and networking.

Our primary target groups of this project are:
– youth workers involved in non-formal education;
– young people, including youth with fewer opportunities.

The project is based on an inclusive approach of youth workers and young people in order to have sustainable investment, quality and efficiency in youth fields. The diversity of participants will create a great learning environment where each and every one can benefit from the learning background and specific competencies and will open up new horizons.

Using the best non-formal education methods youth workers and youth will take part in the essential project activities:
– exchange of good practices in non-formal education,
– workshops and training about cultural heritage, digital learning, European citizenship and European values,
– creating project E-Book for learning activities,
– creating project logo and poster,
– creating a social network and developing materials for the project Facebook page,
– dissemination and presentation of the project to local authorities, other youth NGOs, educational institutions and foundations.

The main result of the project will be strengthening of exchange of good practices and enabling youth workers and young people to work together, to learn from old people and from each other about cultural heritage and economic empowerment. Young people will learn how to apply with new competences for new jobs or to create own small businesses.

The main impact will be empowerment, strong partnership between partners’ organisations and great learning experience of all directly and not directly involved to the project. Influence of the project good practices in E-Book will be sustainable and have long-term impact in the youth fields and beyond

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 53502 Eur

Project Coordinator

MITRA FRANCE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Culture Egalité
• Serik Kultur Sanat ve Egitim Dernegi
• EESTI PEOPLE TO PEOPLE