Youth-led Tourism through Street Festivals Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth-led Tourism through Street Festivals

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The S-FEST project is aiming to promote the cooperation between Europe, Africa and Latin America in the field of youth and explore the potential of youth work in order to increase social entrepreneurship and employability of the young people in the field of community based tourism which represents a great potential. The project activities wis based on the identification and valorization of local community assets (music, dance, modern art, street art, food, traditional products etc) that could be used in order to achieve sustainable tourism that will benefit local communities. In order to promote this objective, S-FEST project will organize four main activity clusters: First, research on the principles and best practices related with community based tourism with local youth. This research also includes the identification of important local assets that could be valorised for a tourism related product in each of the local communities that the partners are going to focus their activities on. The results of this part are combined in a brochure on good practice community based products.Second, the enhancement of skills and competencies of youth workers in the field of community based tourism and youth entrepreneurship within the framework of three international exchanges in Greece, Cabo Verde and Brazil. During the International Meeting, the organizations has organized a Street Festival with the direct involvement and participation of local youth community.Third, the development of innovative community based tourism offers at local level with active involvement of youth, many with few opportunities and/or hit or threatened by unemployment. Fourth, the creation of networks and information for entrepreneurial training, business plan development and community based social entrepreneurship. It will include the development of material for an eLearning course offered for youth and a new platform with contacts of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship tutors. The youth will be supported to develop social enterprises through which they can organise community based touristic events. At the end of the project, local street festivals will be organized from the young people and the youth workers involved in each partner country. It is expected that more than 100 youth workers from all the partner countries have been involved (directly and indirectly) in the activities of the project both through the participation in the transnational training events and through their participation in the e-learning course that the project is going to develop. In each country, youth groups comprised of 15 young people were comprised in order to implement the local activities of the project. The project was implemented by a consortium that includes 5 partners from 2 European countries (Italy, Greece), 1 African country (Cabo Verde) and one Latin American country (Brazil). The project consortium includes NGOs, SMEs, universities and foundations which have diverse and complementary skills.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 144110,9 Eur

Project Coordinator

FONDAZIONE RESTORING ANCIENT STABIAE ONLUS & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ACTION SYNERGY SA
• COOPERATIVA DE TURISMO E PROMOCAO SOCIAL – COOPERBOM TURISMO
• UNIVERSITA TELEMATICA PEGASO
• UNIVERSIDADE DE CABO VERDE