Onkruid x Assemble Erasmus Project

Project Title

Onkruid x Assemble

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Assemble and Onkruid are both organizations focusing on city and culture development. Throughout the years the have established a certain position within their city and country which makes them vital for the innovative, ever-changing youth culture. Both organizations have stipulated a social and artistic mission giving them a vital role within their country and city. Both organizations believe cultural and artistic innovation and entrepreneurship is something you need to endorse, celebrate and support. They want to inspire other organizations, young people and youth culture as a whole to keep innovating and start using their strengths and take things further. In that philosophy it’s important and interesting for Assemble and Onkruid to see how similar organizations work in different settings with different backgrounds. How do other organizations work to reach those goals and how can they learn and benefit from each other? It’s important for both organizations and their core members to keep innovating, to keep inspired so they can inspire their network and their audience.

The partnership is formed through various steps, wherein both organizations will work separately and together so they can grow as a group, as well as an individual and organization on itself. It has planned the following meetings:

1) Inspirational kick-off visit: all core members will get to know each other, we’ll work on teambuilding, present each other’s organization, vision, mission, goals and members. Exchange of expertise. Take part and organize workshops and inspirational lectures on cultural entrepreneurship and innovation. Setup an exchange of artists between both organizations / countries. Brainstorm on a collaborative, sustainable project between both organizations as and result for this partnership.

2 – 3) Project visit in London and Belgium: e ach organization visits the other one during one of its projects or events.

– Review the project from an outsider perspective and generate interesting insights for the organizing partner.

– Help the exchanging artists with their work at the specific project or event.

– Present the collaborative end product to the audience and network of the partnering organization.

– Inform the visitors, local youngsters of the project about the partnership which was setup between both organizations.

– Help the organization where needed with the organization of their project or event.

– If possible participate in the event / project or create a significant amount of value for the event or project.

4) Closing visit: inspirational, closing meeting in London. This meeting is set up as a last inspirational meeting and closing moment of the partnership. It’s meant to get inspired but also delve a bit into the results of the project.

Who will participate? In total the 12 core members of Onkruid will participate and the 18 core members of Assemble will participate to this project. Both organizations will translate their intense partnership to their own network and audience whom are:

– Creative network linked to Onkruid and Assemble (artists, musicians, creatives, entrepreneurs, designers, …)

– All youngsters (15 – 30) who are interested in arts, music, events, entrepreneurship and interested in the projects / events of one or both organizations. Which are about 20 000 youngsters in total.

– All youngsters (15 – 30) living in the neighborhoods, cities, countries wherein both organizations are active.

All of this goals will be reached by an extensive, social media campaign which will run throughout the whole period of this partnership trajectory. This campaign will run on various channels (Webiste, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vimeo and Youtube), through various media (Interviews, Videos, Pictures) and through local, regional and (inter)national press (magazines, blogs, newspapers, radio channels).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 33050 Eur

Project Coordinator

Onkruid vzw & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Assemble Studio CIC