Project - Exeed the wall- wishes to offer an alternative for young people to express their ideas to their peevs and the community. The activity of young people in small fairs of Estonia and neighbouring Latvia, tends to be low regardless of the local authorities attempt to affect young people and give them opporturinities for self- realisation, young people´s opinion is not heard much. The reason may not be in the lack of ideas, but in the formality of self- realisatsion which decreases the opportunities of creative self- realisatsion. The imaginary wall between the young and the rest of the community makes them feel unnecessary in society ( which affects their election activity and social belonging). Still, the young are able to offer innovative solutions and views that are worth taking into consideration. The project gives the opprutunity to students aged from 15- 19 from Rakvere and Riga and Ventspils for creative self -realisation through aduiovisual media eg shortfilms or clips. Shortfilms allow the young to handle problems in community and society. Since filmart is quite popular among the young and contains narration, scenography and also the tehnical side in filming. People with different skills and talents get the oppurtunity for self- realisation depending on their personal wishes and goals. Filmmaking is a creative progress which is closely connected with teamwork and cognition. Collective filmmaking allows the young to discuss the chosen topic and through each others oppinions and ideas understand better. Our aim is to use filmmaking as the best way of expressing the social-critical ideas of the young. The project aims to reach 600 sutdents, 200 in every partnercountries. And 400 students through additional workshops. In addition the students we would like 800 people to visit our festival. The main purpose of the prject is to allow the young to map the strenghts and weakenesses of community, define themselves as a part of society and discuss different solutions. Eventually the young should be able to express theid thought through adiovisual media. To achieve our goals there will be different discussions based on the problems handled beforehand. There will be projectdays that teach the realisation of ideas and the introduce the tehnology used in filmmaking. The shortfilms will be presented in August 2016 in the filmfestival of the project in Rakvere. Where the shortfilms of the young from both countries will compete with each other. The contsetents get professional feedback and the best works will be acknowledged. The festival wished to highlighte the creativity and activity of the young through presenting different way of self-realisation (nätiused) on the streets. The creativity of the young to the local community. The project is conducted by international project team from all the partnercountries. The leader of the project is the six-member group from Estonia, who all have been part of organising national filmfestival. The previous skills and knowledge are wished to be improverd and shared with the partner. For the Latvian organisation Baltic Youth Way is important to strenghten the cooperation between the asociations of the Baltic countries and to tutor the young by offering them to aquire new skills with big empahsis on personal development. The other Latvian partner Ventspils Youth Council puts the main emphasis on improving the creativity of the young and personal inicative and ability to conduct and organise. Our message of the project - We bring the World to you- wishes to introduce and compare the ideas of the young from different cultures. At the same time similar discussions and projectdays will conducted in the partnercountries. The members of the project team improve their teamwork and socialskills and to get the experience of conducting a project and leading a team. As a result we wish to raise the activity on a local level and encourage the young to be more creative and eager. The participate of the project is able to express ideas through audiovisal media and have tehnical skills to take up similar creative projects. The also have the change to express their creations, ideas and speak up for themselves. The leaders of the project have practical skills in conducting personal initiative and leading a team, that can be shared as a good example in other countries as well in Estonia.
Project – Exceed the Wall – was meant for offering an alternative form of participation for youngsters to express their ideas and thoughts and present them to their peers and local community. The activity of young people in small fairs of Estonia and neighbouring Latvia, tends to be low regardless of the local authorities attempt to affect young people and give them opportunities for self- realisation, young people´s opinion is not heard much. The reason may not be in the lack of ideas, but in the formality of self- realisation which decreases the opportunities of creative self- realisation. The imaginary wall between the young and the rest of the community makes them feel unnecessary in society (which affects their election activity and social belonging in future). Still, the young are able to offer innovative solutions and views that are worth taking into consideration. Since film-art is quite popular among the young and contains narration and also the technical side in filming, then people with different skills and talents get the opportunity for self-realisation depending on their personal wishes and goals. Filmmaking is a creative progress which is closely connected with teamwork and cognition. Collective filmmaking allows the young to discuss the chosen topic and through each others opinions and ideas understand better. We set our aim to use filmmaking as the best way of expressing the social-critical ideas of the young. Throughout the project we offered the opportunity for around 550 students aged from 15-19 from Rakvere and Riga and Ventspils for creative self-realisation through audio-visual media eg short films or clips, which they made by topic important for them. We organised 11 discussion-mornings during which participating youngster had an opportunity to discuss with local decision-makers pro’s and con’s of their local community. After discussions students got an opportunity to learn basic film-making skills and develop a short-film scenario according to topic which was risen by previous discussion. In total there was 14 ready-made short-films which besides of local problems tried to point on wider social problems (for example: depression, addictions etc). Besides of described program we also involved around 200 students from rural-areas near to Rakvere, Riga and Ventspils by offering them opportunity to think critically about their hometown or –area challenges and problems and also to gain basic and simple skills of film-making which they can implement in future. All the films made during project were presented in August 2016 during youth festival in Rakvere. Before youth festival there was final events of programme held in Ventspils and Riga where so-called “local winners” got a ticket for youth festival in Rakvere where they had an opportunity to present and comment their film in person. Besides of presenting short-films, the idea of youth festival was to present creativity and activity of youngsters to local community by activities like exhibitions, concerts etc. In total there was around 600 visitors in youth festival (and in addition to youngster, there was many adults participating in film-screenings which supported project main idea – to break barriers between youngsters and adults). Project was organised and implemented by international project team consisting of 12-members of partner organisations from Estonia and Latvia. Organizers brought into project and exchanged previously gained experiences which were helpful for preparatory and implementing activities. Organizers improved - according to personal goals and expectations towards the project – their communication and organising skills and collected new experiences which they can use after project in their so-called “home organisation” or in personal life. According to feedback collected from participants, they were appreciating an opportunity to express their ideas or thoughts and have dialogue with local decision-makers. Mainly from workshops conducted in rural-areas, but also from school programme participants we received feedback that it was innovative and self-developing for them to learn how to use simple tools and methods for film-making and through that express their ideas. As on of the outcomes of project – one of the short-films prepared during the project is used now for regional seminars by local Police department. After participating in project workshop, youngsters from Latvian rural-area near to Ventspils launched in cooperation with their school local film club. In result, project developed organisers communication and cooperation skills, participants (youngsters) knowledge about participation in local level, Erasmus+ programme opportunities and basics of film-making. Project was uniting – through youth festival in Rakvere and activities in partners hometowns – youngsters with adults and was giving its contribution to break previously described barrier between those two groups by making a first step.