J.A.M.M.IN’! – Joint Artistic Methodologies for Migrants INclusion and INtegration Erasmus Project

Project Title

J.A.M.M.IN’! – Joint Artistic Methodologies for Migrants INclusion and INtegration

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

Context:
– Human Rights Education
– Youth Arts
– Inclusion: (Syrian) refugees, all sorts of inclusion (Arts & mental disabilities)

Objectives:
– SO1- To explore the complementarity of arts and NFE tools/approaches and to develop innovative combined tools to support young migrants/refugees integration in local communities and to promote twofold inclusion processes
– SO2- To explore and test the benefits of using art as a tool for social change and for engaging and empowering young migrants/refugees in local communities, schools, youth org./centers, providing them with the tools to advocate for their rights and their role in the community
– SO3- To promote a culture of healing and bringing together communities through arts as methodology that is strengthening the feeling of belonging, progressive values and equality in society/local communities
– SO4- To promote quality and needs based youth work by boosting and exploring creative artistic tools for social inclusion and positive changes in society/communities
– SO5- To extend the “power” of arts and NFE in a number of different contexts (schools, municipalities,cultural centers, youth centers, etc.)

Number and profile of participants
The participants that took part in the transnational mobilities were young migrants, volunteers, youth workers, refugees and artists. Some of the participants that took part in the local activities had then the possibility to participate in the transnational mobilities and present the results of their local action.
In general the profile of the participants that took part in the Daquiedacolà and La Fenice’s local activities were young people at risk of social exclusion with different backgrounds (migrants, refugees, people living with mental disabilities, young people with problem in “fitting in” school/local community social dynamics and volunteers/youth workers eager to learn the JAMMIN approaches and methodologies).

Training: 24 participants
ME Bruxelles: 35 participants
ME Tortona: circa 80 participants
La Fenice’s local activities= +150 participants
Daquiedacola´s local activities= +150 participants

Undertaken activities
Art Residency- Training Course with Inclusive Tour: presentation of theatre outcomes and 11 sessions of cultural debriefing upon HRE with youth and adults.
Multiplier events in Belgium and Italy: performance and video outcomes were presented to a variety of audiences. Contribution to the World Refugee Day in Ghent.
Capacity building and creative workshops for youth workers. Online and offline.
Workshops in schools. Artistic workshops in youth centre for disadvantaged youth.
Permanent cooperation in a school for 7 months. Cooperation of Formal and Non Formal Education for the Social Inclusion of 13 unprivileged kids through Arts.
One website, collecting the tools, approaches and stories of Jamm-In: https://www.jamminproject.eu
Several videos telling the experiences of Jamm-In and its participants.
One performance, created from the stories and emotions of youth workers, volunteers, refugees and unprivileged youth.

Results and impacts attained
Significant experience for a group of unprivileged youth during the Art Residency and the Inclusive Tour. Several of these youngsters had never jumped into a stage, nor performed Arts nor had felt listened or appreciated before. The several tears were real and by sharing strength and vulnerability at the same time infinite messages were shared with the final beneficiaries audience who also felt emotional and also cried and also shared sweet deep insights.
Youth workers and volunteers from partner organisations (above all Daquiedacola and La Fenice) acquired significant competencies in working with a combination of artistic and non-formal education tools.
Young refugees, artists, youth with fewer opportunities and from unprivileged backgrounds were engaged and empowered through co-creative artistic processes.

We turned back a narrative of impossibility (regarding youth work, regarding arts, regarding inclusion, regarding being socially active and committed in times of pandemic).
We hosted a safe international event.
We created in a short time out of (apparently) nothing a touching Art outcome worthy to be shared.
We learned and taught to acknowledge emotions. We learned by doing and taught by sharing.
We proved the benefits and importance of a good debriefing. Next project should focus strictly on learning to debrief and train youth workers to facilitate good debriefing sessions.

Longer term benefits
Positive impact at the schools, municipalities and final beneficiaries who took part at the Inclusive Tour and were involved at the different stages of the project.
Positive impact and long-term empowerment for the direct beneficiaries of the Art Residency and of the multiplier events.
Key competencies gained by youth workers and organisations involved, with long-term benefits for their work in the local communities, in the schools, in youth centres.

Project Website

https://www.jamminproject.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 80773 Eur

Project Coordinator

Daquíedacolá & Country: ES

Project Partners

• YOUTH FOR EXCHANGE AND UNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL AISBL
• ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE – KUMANOVO
• APS LA FENICE