Muses: youth culture with a gender perspective. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Muses: youth culture with a gender perspective.

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: Pedagogy and didactics; Creativity and culture; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

This project arises in response to the need to make visible and exploit the social value and opportunities offered by cultural heritage and art, from three perspectives that are totally and necessarily complementary:
(a) To train educational and socio-cultural youth workers in the use of non-formal education and social research strategies for the dissemination of European cultural heritage and art, while experimenting, renewing and improving their skills in professional performance as facilitators of real, active and creative youth participation and youth empowerment.
(b) to disseminate and enhance cultural heritage and art among young people, in order to support their critical, civic and creative development and to equip them with tools that promote new scenarios and spaces of expression, renewed channels of participation, connection and dialogue.
(c) To promote the transmission of culture and art as a rich and diverse patrimonial element, suitable in today’s reality as an educational tool, for healthy leisure, for social and intergenerational relations, with an integrative vocation, giving priority to equality of persons and non-discrimination on grounds of gender, class or age.
It is important to break with the elitist, consumerist and stereotypical idea of culture, heritage and art, to connect and integrate the elements involved in its transmission and to seek joint responsibility among the actors involved in disseminating it without discriminatory stereotypes.
To achieve our mission, an 18-month strategy has been designed in which young people between the ages of 13 and 18 and youth workers from three countries will exchange good practices and experiment with new methods to encourage participation, connection and youth empowerment in an ambitious process based on the training-research-action methodology.
The attitudinal and procedural issues will be approached from 3 essential contents, according to the specialties of each one of the entities that make up the strategic partnership:
(a) gender focus and co-educative strategies;
(b) artistic and performative techniques;
(c) social research techniques, interview and collection of oral testimonies.
The main activities in which the project become operative:
The main activities in which project will be active are:
-Youth exchange, with the objective to analyze the gender stereotype in force in the cultural and artistic areas, to share the social investigations process and to edit the digital content started in the previous months and that will continue in the coming month, to empower youth into an artistic and critic collective creation and to give visibility to the artistic European cultural heritage.
– Research, mapping and audiovisual record: this work include the identification of 5 “muses” in each country, study visits, interviews and audiovisual records with mobile phones, video editing and dissemination in RRSS. As result of this process, we will collect a gallery of 15 videos about inspiring experiences of creative people, artists and/or those who work in the cultural and arts fields, to compare prejudices based on gender and show diversity and wealth of European cultural and artistic heritage. In addition, interactive maps and teaching guides will be elaborated to make their use more attractive and useful.
– Design, development and evaluation of the cultural revitalization activities for teenagers in each territory, in collaboration with the respective network of local partners and using a multitude of formats and supports. A total of 15 activities will be designed, 5 per country, in direct relation to the different cultural areas mapped and registered in the process of social research and identification of the “muses”.
– Development of the teaching guide “Cultural dynamization with gender perspective for teenagers”, with a compendium of activities available in the project channels to be used, replicated and / or adapted by whoever wishes. The quality of the proposed activities will be backed by the experience of the partner entities, the large network of local partners and by the rigorous evaluation process that will be promoted.
-Elaboration of an illustrated infografic with pedagogical recommendation for youth workers, with the most important conclusions regarding the intervention in the field of the dissemination of cultural heritage and of art with the teenagers group. It is a project whose results will be of great utility for professionals in the educational area, (formal or non-formal), in the cultural and heritage area since they will be backed by exhaustive experimentation and evaluation, and will be capable of being applied in their contexts of intervention. We want the actions, products and results of the project to be inspiring, practical and fully transferable, so they will be multilingual and available online under a Creative Commons license.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 63750 Eur

Project Coordinator

Antaxurada SL & Country: ES

Project Partners

• La Corte della Carta
• Associação para o Desenvolvimento de Pitões