RECALIBUR – ecotools in youth work for collective creativity Erasmus Project

Project Title

RECALIBUR – ecotools in youth work for collective creativity

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; Environment and climate change; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

CONTEXT AND AIM
In light of the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for ever increasing innovation, impact and recognition of youth work, the ERASMUS+ KA2 strategic partnership project „RECALIBUR – ecotools in youth work for collective creativity“ aims to explore youth work’s renewed role in fostering a shared sense of mutual belonging with the communities and the natural world by enhancing and strengthening resonating outer connection as forms of creative inspiration. This to increase young people’s sense of belonging, wellbeing, resilience, and responsibility towards the biosphere as a whole, and identify in these restored interactions means, motivation, tools and positive outlook to accomplish their goals and those of their community, expressed via the creative arts.

OBJECTIVES:
1) To explore ecopsychology principles and approaches to untap its applicability to youth work, and youth empowerment principle through connection and reconnection to the community and to the environment at large, via creative expressions
2) To investigate, curate, adapt and create non-formal education approaches and tools, enhancing the sets available to youth workers, trainers, facilitators, coaches and educators to also provide competence development and empowerment based on community and environmental engagement through the application and fostering of youth creativity.
3) To empirically demonstrate the relevance, and evidence, of this renewed approach to youth work identified via empirical demonstration and scientific research
4) To pilot and prototype both this new approach and the related tools in international youth work contexts, as well as in local youth work, as motivators for creativity and creative expression as well as storytelling via the arts and crafts, empowered through the application of the designed tools.
5) To match digital/online and residential/live learning in the promotion of this approach in order to foster youth creative expression in the form of a collective effort through community reconnection and environmental positive engagement.
6) To collect all the outputs, outcomes, deliverables and products of this joint exercise into an interactive online environment and embedded social media campaign in order to showcase the benefit of the approach and raise awareness towards the youth needs that arose from the Covid19 pandemic and our proposed solution.

TARGET GROUPS
We are targeting youth work practitioners, and via them ultimately young people, here with a focus on inclusion groups.

FORSEEN OUTPUTS
1 Online environment, containing:
– a research to demonstrate the scientific approach behind the proposed methodology and approach
– an educational toolkit for youth work practitioners to foster creativity and creative expression through community engagement and reconnection with the non-human world
– a collective gallery of curated resources, as well as collective storytelling

EVENTS, MEETINGS AND ACTIONS
1 training to explore tools for community engagement
1 training to explore tools for nature and outdoors-focused tools
20 focus groups
10 local activities to put the tools in practice
1 Multiplier Event workshop of community creativity
1 Multiplier Event connected to nature-focused non-formal education workshops
5 international webinars
4 transnational partner meetings

DISSEMINATION
Reach of audiovisual material: 5000
Online interaction with toolkit: 1500
Engagement on social media: 5000
Traffic on website: 5000

PARTNERSHIP
The project comprises of organisations from Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Italia, and Slovakia.

IMPACT AND LONG-TERM EFFECTS
We aim for the following long.term effects:
*) Ecopsychology principles and approaches with focus on creativity explored, prototyped and proven in relation to applicability to youth work
*) The new approach and methodology are promoted and disseminated
*) Youth work is innovated and has more tools and approaches at disposition
*) Role, impact and recognition of youth work and non-formal education has been strengthened
*) Creativity, wellbeing and inclusion in young people as well as in communities has been strengthened
*) Creativity, creative industries, community life and the ecological environment are appreciated more
*) Quality of creative expressions enhances sense of belonging to community and the biosphere, enriching the local cultural heritage
*) Civil society strengthened

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 232669 Eur

Project Coordinator

EduEra & Country: SK

Project Partners

• MUOVIMENTE SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE
• coobra – cooperativa braccianti
• DANSK ICYE
• MITTETULUNDUSUHING SHOKKIN GROUP