Youth Specific ART Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth Specific ART

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: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The main aim of the project Youth Specific ART is to exchange good practices among participating organisations and incopropare art methodology to the non-formal education in order to empower young people from Estonia, Austria, Greece, Slovenia and UK and increase their active participation through art and innovative creative solutions to support their ability in addressing nowadays needs, challenges and crises.

Objectives:
Increase capacity of the youth workers participated in the project to use art and creativity as a tool in youth work with emphasis on youth with fewer opportunities;
Exchange good practices in usage of art and creative tools in youth work and to develop new common solutions, including digital solutions;
Encourage young people from Narva, Lefkas, Zagorje ob Savi, Gloucester and Vienna to implement their own art initiatives;
Empower and to boost the entrepreneurial mindset of the participating youth through various educational, art and creative activities;
Develop partnership networks between youth and art organisations on the local, regional and international levels.
The project has two main dimensions:
Increasing capacities participating organisations and youth workers
Creating opportunities for young people to implement their own ideas and initiatives with support of organisations.
The project has few main target groups:
1. Core group of the project – representatives of the partner organisations, who are in charge of project implementation. At least 2 persons per organisation.
2. Youth workers/leaders participants of the short joint staff event, they are staff members of the partner organisations or youth leaders in them.
3. Youth group of the project. Local young people from each partner’s country who are deeply involved in the project and in charge of the implementation of the project activities.

Within the project will be implemented following activities:
Transnational project meeting
Short-term joint staff event
Local activities in frames of youth work and art
International online/virtual activities
Youth magazine
Youth exhibition what travels all partners countries and take place virtually

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 68652 Eur

Project Coordinator

MITTETULUNDUSUHING VITATIIM & Country: EE

Project Partners

• Mladinski center Zagorje ob Savi
• MONOPATIA ALLILEGIIS
• The Gloucester Theatre Company Limited
• Rhizomatic Circus