Drawing the future of Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Drawing the future of Europe

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Europe is part of the daily life of European citizens, but nevertheless, this transversal character is not reflected in young people, who perceive Europe as something foreign that is not part of their daily lives, especially when we refer to the scope of culture. This is in addition to that there is a gap in the curriculum of Spanish students, who barely address the issues related to the European Union in its schools. Thus, neither in primary school or in compulsory secondary issues Europe are addressed, nor occurs in post-compulsory education, ie in vocational training, high school or university, except in the case of specific courses . This requires that young people themselves speak to other young people in their own language and what more universal language that combines art and literature that comics.

With this transnational youth initiative aim to strengthen the access of youth to the opportunities that the EU has created them these years (such programs like Erasmus Plus), but remain underused. We intend to make young people work close to together to develop a strategic partnership initiative that aims to be maintained over time.

The main objective of this project is to establish the basis for consolidating a cooperation structure with two other European entities, a British and a French that is capable of generating a comic to spread into new local events, regional, national and international. We want vertebrar international interpersonal networks that encourage youth participation in activities at European level through concrete action with a veneer to stabilize over time and allows importing the good practices developed by our partners, and export our expertise. With this initiative, which is based on social entrepreneurship, it is also intended that participating associations are able to give birth to a common border and landscape project for the creation of an initiative in several languages to communicate Europe through the language of comics. This initiative member associations provide resources, materials, know-how and learning to communicate Europe more and more effectively when they are sent to other young people.

The main added value of cross-border nature of the project is broader than will and the uniqueness of its approach, making better translate its cultural imprint. Our world today is globalized and cultural phenomena that become fashionable, as the Superheroes. However, they tend to have a distinct national character and mostly come from non-European countries. This initiative aims to highlight the commonality through identification with a superhero that can only be European if from his own conception youth involved in their creation of several countries. Furthermore, when generating versions in several languages and try to penetrate several markets at once, there is no better way to have people already own country working on the ground.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 7100 Eur

Project Coordinator

Jóvenes Europeístas y Federalistas de España (JEF España) & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Young European Movement Ltd
• LES JEUNES EUROPEENS-FRANCE ASSOCIATION