Global Artists (GlobArtist) - Social and Labour Entrepreneurship with young artists is a project that seeks to contribute to the business and social training of 60 young artists from four European countries through an innovative and creative approach. Organizations in Bulgaria, Croatia, Spain and Italy will try to improve the professional and social skills of young people, through training actions and internships in local NGOs, in which young people will be able to deploy small artistic and creative actions, with a clear social and community approach. This initiative will end with a final conference in which young people exchange and publicly show their experiences of participation in NGOs. In addition, as a result of the project, a guide will be generated that will collect the contents and teaching units deployed in the training sessions, as well as collect some of the young experiences of those carried out in the project. This guide will be digital, public and accessible to serve as a handbook to other organizations and youth groups that want to take action along the lines of this project.
The general objective of the project was to contribute to the business and social training of 60 young artists from four different countries through an innovative and creative approach. This general objective would be achieved by achieving three specific objectives: O.E.1 - Increase the knowledge and skills of young people about entrepreneurship in the field of art and culture. O.E.2 - Provide knowledge and tools for active social and community participation through art and culture. O.E.3 - Approaching social participation and the world of employment through participation in social organizations in the environment. O.E.4 - Approaching social participation and the world of employment through the use of information and communication technologies. Although it is true that the project was finally granted, it needed readjustment in relation to those objectives that sought both direct training with young people, as well as their participation in social organizations in the area. Since the intellectual products related to the direct training of young people and practices were not granted. However, the final activities tried to cover these aspects also more limitedly.
The project was requested to promote measures that would allow young artists to respond to the challenges and difficulties derived from the situation of the COVID19 pandemic, especially focused on improving their business and social skills, complementing those they receive in formal education. The situation in Europe generated by the pandemic crisis had a very significant impact on this group of young people: unemployment and structural vulnerability that even today (two years later) is still observed in this group.