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This is what Europe sounds like: "Sounds of Bocholt"

2019-1-DE04-KA105-0176282019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: DE|UK|NL|LT|FR|BE · Grant: €18,028
Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learningIntegration of refugeesNatural sciences

Objectives

Next year, the European Office Bocholt would once again like to host a European youth camp with young people and escorts from the Bocholter partner cities of Aurillac/Arpajon-sur-Cère (France), Bocholt (Belgium) as well as the friendly city of Akmene (Lithuania) and the Neighbour-area Netherlands. As a theme "This is what Europe - Sounds of Bocholt! " sounds like the city of Bocholt in collaboration with the local LWL textile factory. It is based on a former LWL industrial museum "Sounds of Changes." However, it has been adapted to the needs of young people. Background for project selection: Bocholt is changing. Since 2018, Gigaset has been producing the first smartphone "Made in Germany" and projects such as kubaai (Bocholter Cultural Quarter on the Aa and Industrial Road) and "Atmendes Bocholt 2030" will significantly change the face of the city. For all its progress, the city, with the LWL Industrial Museum Textile Plant Bocholt, also keeps reminding itself of its past in the textile industry. The future and the past are closely intertwined here in the constant development. You can't just see the change, though: You can also hear the city changing. While the smartphones at Gigaset are assembled almost silently by robots, on the industrial road you can hear the construction site noise from the kubaai site and the rattern of the museum chairs in the textile factory. This is intended to record and preserve current noises with noises that may soon be unheard-the future and skillful about the unusual access by means of technology and archiving from different European perspectives. The LWL Industrial Museum now wants to collect these and other sounds of change with young Europeans under the question "What does the change sound like?." Sounds associated with change and change should seek, absorb and process young people for future archiving and retrieval. The aim is to make these sounds accessible to the population in a subsequent exhibition. It will be exciting how differently the represented European nations perceive and absorb sounds in Bocholt. Young people are encouraged and supported by collaborating on this technically unusual project, in their personal, social, linguistic, creative, physical and creative fields. They get to know recording and playback and cutting techniques and thus get a first insight into a technical and ultimately digitized world of work. This first insight into scientific and technological progress is coupled with a introduction to STEM techniques. It is important to listen, engage with each other, adapt and work towards common goals. The current project aims to contribute to strengthening one's own skills, economic and technical insights through playful access to technology and acceptance in different areas of life and work, and interculturally together with Young people from different countries to work together. The young people are supported by museum educators, who guide not only professional but also the intercultural skills to strengthen the self-confidence of each individual. Another aspect of the project is getting to know other cultures and nations. This is why the encounter takes place in mixed groups of nations, where the participants have to deal with the different cultures, habits and information from the respective countries. Another overarching goal is to awaken the sense of belonging to society and to strengthen the personality development of young people within a protected and supervised framework. In the past, young people who were otherwise unable to go abroad or to take part in an encounter with European young people have always taken part in the European youth camps of the European office Bocholt.

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