Youth Organisations for Unification & Innovation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth Organisations for Unification & Innovation

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) are one of the European Union’s main employers … They employ 3,3% of the active population (5 times more than Telecommunications) and constitute a vital force in economic growth. They hire, on average, more people in the 15-to-29 age range than any other sector.The economic growth and job creation within this sector is attracting a growing number of young entrepreneurs. However, a large number of candidates are “stuck”, due to choices in career development that no longer suit them, and to employment circumstances that are more and more demanding (changing economic models, lower pay, dwindling social benefits, new distribution circuits, globalization …)We, as mentors, would like these young cultural and creative entrepreneurs to be able to run their own businesses, properly structure their projects and proposals, secure meaningful professional experience, and, above all, satisfy a goal of personal fulfillment.To do so, it’s necessary to reinforce alliances between different official and non-official educational systems, and create innovative and unconventional guidance methods based on the inevitability of change, the need to adapt, and development methods of self-assessment, all while gaining autonomy. It’s also crucial to create strong bonds between the various players of the creative ecosystem: businesses, associations, education systems, public politics, collective creation spaces, etc.The objective of this project is to further develop the competence and capacity of the guides who would be helping our audience of young cultural and creative entrepreneurs achieve their goals. The mentors would be introduced to codification of new and proven innovative methodologies, stemming from shared sets of “best practices” … This would occur through the joint creation of simple shareable tools (under Creative Commons licenses), administrable and auto-administrable, taking into account the realities of the creative ecosystem and the entrepreneurial capacities of young people.These tools will be based on the combined observation and analysis of three distinct guidance methods, both formally and informally presented in transnational meetings held by the project’s partners:• The first in May 2019 in the United States, at New York University / Tisch School of the Arts/ Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music,• A second in October 2019 in Stavanger in Norway, in the premises of Elefant, a guidance site for artists and creative activity,• And a third in France, in Biarritz, in November 2021, thanks to the welcome of the Combustible association, which specializes in artistic guidance.A team of thirteen youth mentors, from all three participating organizations, will be tasked with developing the competencies of individuals, structures, establishing networks with local partners and institutions, as well as lay the foundations for an international network of trust, for young people to exchange, and reinforce Europe’s cultural innovation.

Project Website

https://www.youandiproject.org/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 58221,85 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASS COMBUSTIBLE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
• ERFJORDGT.8 AS