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2019-2-RS01-KA105-0009332019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: RS|IT|MK|HU|LT|HR|RO|BG|PL|ES|CZ · Grant: €21,090
Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learningLabour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemploymentYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

The project will explore how to use Music, Dance, Reciprocal Maieutic Approach and New Media within youth work context by youth workers to foster young artists from hard to reach disadvantaged backgrounds self-confidence, self-esteem and enrich their competences, making them more competitive in the labour market. It aims to improve youth work methods and competences of youth workers in order to help young people with fewer opportunities to scale up their potential and improve their employability as artists, musicians, dancers, etc. For this reason, it includes various methods and practical hands on activities to take action using music and dance in new and innovative ways and employing new media into diffusing their creations in youth work context. The project also intends to empower youth workers on behalf of civil and youth organisations, developing new working methods, tools and materials based on non-formal education and experimenting music and dance as educational pedagogical tools. The project aims to promote transnational creative collaboration between the different countries, targeting young artists with fewer opportunities, so as to increase their competences and participation in society. It aims particularly to improve young artists’ self-esteem and sense of belonging to society, increasing their confidence promoting music and dance as an attractive asset and transforming their interest in music and dance into employability skills. The project will also enhance young artists competence to work on a transnational level by providing them with opportunities to engage in international exchanges and transnational creative collaborations. By showcasing their work through short movie in social media the project will facilitate their access to international artistic markets. Objectives of the project: • training 44 participants in intercultural learning and enhancing their employability skills through music and dance with RMA as non-formal learning educational tools within youth work context; • developing 600 young people’ competences through intercultural dialogue and enhancing their employability skills using music and dance with RMA via local musical stories youth events; • exploring the opportunities and challenges of creative industries in the 11 participating countries and building cross sectorial cooperation between youth sector and creative industry; • increasing the employability of 60 young people with cultural difference as artists in local and international level via recording and online promotion through musical stories; • creating 10 musical stories in local level per partner by The Reciprocal Maieutic Approach (RMA) based on the mixture of traditional and modern music and to be showcased at local youth events, local workshops and upload to the social media recorded for wider audience; • editing Educational Manual on the Reciprocal Maieutic Approach (RMA) in arts like music within youth work activities for youth workers, youth leaders, cultural and art educators working with disadvantage young people in daily basis; • Inventing 12 project ideas according to Erasmus+ programme on promote intercultural dialogue and cultural diversity and enhancing employability of young people through music and dance with RMA; • strengthening partnerships among 11 organisations and associated partners from Serbia, Romania, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, FYR Macedonia, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania and Croatia. Based on the results of the local researches, as consortium we had defined our common objectives and possible solutions for it through this project proposal such as - Raising young people’ competitiveness and fostering their intercultural exchanges through learning and applying ICT and new media skills to music in our youth work; - Boosting young people employability and self-confidence through using their music traditions to discover their roots as a starting point for their personal and professional development and active participation in society.

Project partners (11)