Europefiction academy Erasmus Project

Project Title

Europefiction academy

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: Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Europe is in crisis. Covid19 crisis, environmental crisis, global warming, migrations, the fear of a large economical crisis, terrorism. From a more EU transversal perspective, the ensemble suffers from a crisis of democratic participation from the citizens in relation to nationalist tensions and distrust towards the EU project.
According to the late 2019 EU Eurobarometer annual survey done before the Cov crisis, the majority of Europeans think their voices don’t count: it’s a +11% pts compared to the previous survey. More specifically, for youth, the EU context is also complicated to travel, to enter a working life, to bring a contribution to society and be confronted to a risk of international conflicts.

The European youth has voted significantly more at the 2019 elections (+12% pts compared to 2014, Eurobarometer). They put the economy, climate change, human rights and democracy at their expectations to be addressed by the EU. Unlike Europeans in general, they have the feeling that their voices may count. But how can they bring these voices forward? Which spaces do they need for expressions of opinions, future fears and visions?
After two years of working together on the project of Europefiction, The Europefiction Academy is a next step to strengthen the partnerships between the co-working theatres, their local networks and to reflect on innovative methods in collaboration between the professional group leaders, talented ex-participants and students from a variety of theatre minded studies. With this academy ten theatres from six different European countries want to develop new artistic and communicative strategies to convey the value of a democratic future with an interplay of political issues and art to a wide professional public of formal and non-formal youth-education.

For the stakeholders of the cultural sector working with youngsters, the situation today makes plans very difficult to elaborate. If you think about Art companies, NGOs involving young active citizens, youth organisations, universities and schools developing informal artistic workshops for volunteers, you may consider that their usual activities with youth groups are not possible anymore in most of the EU countries. They need alternative options: artistic workflows for groups that may be flexible enough to keep their quality even if the sanitary situation is tough.
The EFA project includes the creation of 6 methodological tools dedicated to supporting artistic workshops with youngsters. These methodologies promote collective work: collective intelligence, collective artistic inspiration, collaboration, creation of common between participants through a shared artistic experience. To promote creativity, these methodologies encourage the meeting of young people with very different backgrounds. The methodologies are thus inclusive in the sense that they rely on the richness given by the diversity of the participants to stimulate creativity. They have in their DNA the need to compose groups of young people from all walks of life, and in particular young people with fewer opportunities (disabled and migrants in particular). The methodologies also include specific attention to be adapted to people with special needs.The tools will be a profound base for the sustainable collaboration of artistic institutions and various acteurs from the field of youth work.

The created Intellectual Outputs unfold their effort with two different ways of working. The exploration of the digital and urban space from the perspective of the young participants enables the young generation to perform, to ask the questions about the important topics for the Europe in which we live. And also to invent solutions for the urgents challenges of migration, environmental issues, democracy, covid crisis, gender issue and economical crisis.

Project Website

http://europefiction.org

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 294051 Eur

Project Coordinator

forum kunstvereint e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• La Transplanisphere
• Theater Kohlenpott
• STICHTING THEATER ROTTERDAM
• KOLIBRI GYERMEK-ES IFJUSAGI SZINHAZ KIEMELKEDOEN KOZHASZNU NONPROFIT KFT
• STADT DORTMUND
• Larf!
• LA BARACCA SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE ONLUS