MY EUROPE IS YOUR EUROPE, YOUR CULTURE IMPROVE MY CULTURE: A CULTURAL REVOLUTION THROUGH YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INCLUSION Erasmus Project

Project Title

MY EUROPE IS YOUR EUROPE, YOUR CULTURE IMPROVE MY CULTURE: A CULTURAL REVOLUTION THROUGH YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INCLUSION

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: Migrants’ issues; Creativity and culture; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation

Project Summary

After the severe pandemic of COVID-19, culture needs to adapt to the new reality, and that involves integrating into the digital sphere, changing traditional methods for new ones based on the virtuality of art. It is also a great opportunity to become an effective means for young people at risk of exclusion to undertake and overcome their barriers. Europe is going to change after the pandemic in all areas, and especially in the cultural sphere, and this transformation will be led by young people with their enthusiasm, optimism, their knowledge of new technologies… but also their sense of solidarity.
With this project we want to promote a new digital culture, more supportive and committed to those who need it most, but also more accessible both for users and young cultural entrepreneurs themselves, and especially for racialized and migrated youth. This initiative aims to promote a new young, dynamic, and supportive cultural enterprise that facilitates the social and labor inclusion of young persons (both local and migrant).

To do this, 6 European entities that work in cultural entrepreneurship, artistic education, and the inclusion of young migrants (FRACTALS and LA COSECHA PRODUCCIÓN AUDIOVISUAL – Spain, FUNDACIÓN EMMANUEL and TERZO MILLENNIO – ITALIA, and EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION and ROES COOPERATIVA – Greece) want to promote the project “VOICE through ART”.

VOICE through ART is both an innovative methodology that promotes inclusion through cultural, solidary, and youth entrepreneurship, and a virtual space that facilitates and promotes new youth cultural projects that lead to the creation of a new culture adapted to the post-COVID-19 reality through its innovative methodology.

The VOICE through ART methodology that will guide the project will generate a new art based on new technologies and youth entrepreneurship, but also inspiration, documentation, and reflection on what concerns them about their community and the strengths it possesses, especially in the society born after COVID-19. It is a collaborative and innovative methodology based on the famous “Photovoice” strategy adapted to the cultural sector, where art is built through critical analysis, reflection on the environment, and the digital avant-garde.

The virtual space also called VOICE through ART will feature:
– NON-FORMAL EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INCLUSION: a series of non-formal digital educational resources that will constitute the Intellectual Output O1 of the project and will provide young users with the training and skills to be able to undertake and overcome their barriers through videos, documents, workshops, group dynamics, and innovative methods: achieving inclusion through cultural entrepreneurship. These materials will be structured in three areas of knowledge: youth cultural entrepreneurship, inclusive artistic education, and new technologies in digital art.
– THE SPACE FOR PEER LEARNING AND NETWORKING: a space for virtual communication and mutual learning between young creators (the tangible result R1) that will allow the creation of collaboration and friendship networks between young users (regardless of their origin or barriers), but also to implement joint entrepreneurship projects through effective networking, benefiting from commonly used digital tools and equipment (smartphone or laptop).
– DIGITAL GALLERY: a virtual gallery (the tangible result R2) to upload and disseminate the works of all these artists, which will also be linked to social networks, and with entities and institutions capable of promoting them.

Both the innovative methodology proposed and the virtual space derived from it will contribute to building a culture adapted to these post-COVID-19 times, capable not only of building art, but also of promoting the employment and inclusion of creative young persons (both migrants and locals) who, as a result of coronavirus, are in a terrible situation of segregation. To achieve this, it will effectively promote the creation of new cultural projects for young people as a dynamic path to their inclusion and employability.

In order to develop and create all these results, multiple national activities with the target groups, along with virtual meetings, 4 transnational meetings (Spain, Greece, Spain, and Italy), and 3 multiplier events (Valencia, Lecce, and Giannitsa) will be carried out over 24 months, generating a great repercussion both in European culture and in creative young persons, especially in those who have had to leave their home to reach strange lands devastated by a pandemic like the one caused by coronavirus.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 120817 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASOCIACIÓN FRACTALS EDUCACIÓN ARTÍSTICA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Educational Innovation
• Fondazione Emmanuel-Don Francesco Tarantini per le Migrazioni e il Sud del Mondo
• Roes Cooperativa KOIN.S.EP.
• Terzo Millennio – Laboratorio di Umana Solidarietà
• La Cosecha Producciones