YOUTH DRAMA, MEDIA & STORYTELLING FOR DEVELOPING CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM Erasmus Project

Project Title

YOUTH DRAMA, MEDIA & STORYTELLING FOR DEVELOPING CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The project YOUTH DRAMA, MEDIA & STORYTELLING FOR DEVELOPING CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM (YDMS) aimed to:
– promote European cultural heritage
– develop the sustainable tourism sector
– create job opportunities for NEETs
– contribute to the year 2018 strategy (European year of cultural heritage)

The project used innovative educational methods as theatre training to involve unemployed young NEETs in the job market, creating for them various tools that, at the same time, can promote places, histories, and myths of the partners’ cities. This means that the project “YDMS” uses narrative methodologies and digital design tools to tell stories about European cultural heritage and to contribute to making more cultural heritage known.
The partnership was composed of 4 experienced organizations from Copenhagen (Denmark), Potenza (Italy), Leipzig (Germany), and Alicante (Spain) with respective/complementary expertise in project management, storytelling, theater performances, ICT, Apps development, videogames, digital animations for mobile devices (tablets, smartphones), web platforms (Android, iOS), Augmented Reality, etc.
The YDMS project activities comprised:
– 4 transnational project meeting
– 1 JSTE
– 2 Intellectual Outputs
– 4 Multiplier Events
– Monitoring and Evaluation activities
– Various other outcomes
– Dissemination activities
– Final training seminaries for NEETs
during a period of 28 months of project activities running from 01/09/2018 till 31/12/2020. Due to the Covid, the project was extended.
The project had 2 Intellectual Outputs comprising:
1) LIVE YOUNG ACTORS AND TOOL-KIT
2) YDMS WEB PLATFORM, APP, E-GAME, AND GUIDE

Both the Intellectual Outputs were planned to allow the development of theatrical tour using “live young actors” and innovative digital tools, thus promoting the local communities, and they work specifically in the connection between them
The JSTE was planned to be held in Germany as a T.o.T. (Training of Trainers) for the partners’ staff involved, that, then, should carry out the final training seminaries for the NEETs to become “live young actors” in the last 4 months of the project period.
The project, as foreseen, had an important and effective impact at the local, regional, national, and European level on various target groups and it was a tangible contribution to the sustainability of the project as it could help generate job opportunities in the tourism sector and with the involvement also of Municipalities, Regional Agency for Tourism and other stakeholders in its promotion.

Project Website

http://www.ydms.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 173248 Eur

Project Coordinator

Crossing Borders & Country: DK

Project Partners

• Ost-Passage Theater e.V.
• ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE LA INDUSTRIA DEL JUGUETE CONEXAS Y AFINES
• Youth Europe Service