The project’s idea was born in full lockdown from the union of artists and trainers engaged for years in educational activities in various countries of Europe. It was born in the context of a particular worldwide collective experience that involves us deeply in all aspects, involving everyone and the whole European and trans-European territory. CREATIVE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY-OPERATIONAL APPROACH combines a strong digital design action with a creative action in the educational field, based on the emotional experience. The project aims, through a 2 years cooperation between international partners, to create a methodology and the tools for operators (especially fromCCS -Cultural and Creative Sectors-) to implement creative emotional activities in educational contexts, providing a Toolbox (IO1), a Methodology (IO2) and an Operational Digital Tool for operators (IO3), to support and guide them in the creation of creative emotional journeys for young people. CREATIVE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY is an immersive, creative and emotional experience for young people; it is a themed “journey”: the approach can be implemented in various and urgent themes for society. Our Consortium, due to the internal expertises, will address two specific themes (gender violence and bullying) that will represent the models for practical implementation of our products. This project aims at capitalising the various partners’ expertise, the experience, the competences, the previous projects’ results to create products that allow operators and organizations, in particular in the cultural and creative sectors working with young people to cope with the situation caused by the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic, creating the possibility of a resilience of the sector, providing a METHODOLOGY that will represent the bridge between CREATIVITY - EMOTIONAL APPROACH - DIGITAL TOOLS - EDUCATION - YOUNGSTERS. CREATIVE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY - OPERATIONAL APPROACH provides the possibility of COOPERATION between educational sectors and cultural and creative sectors. The aim of the project is to support CCS operators in the creation of creative contents with emotional approach usable in educational context, and provide operators from educational sectors the possibility to use creative contents addressing urgent issues for society, during their work with young people. Moreover, the project will provide knowledge, tools and a Methodology to work with youngsters on an EMOTIONAL level, thanks to the involvement of psychologists, pedagogues, sociologists, educators. Another innovative aspect, fundamental to arm operators for coping with the pandemic situation, is the DIGITAL dimension: -digital format of the tools -digital fruition of contents -Instructions to create creative emotional educational contents accessible online. The project has also a long term vision and it aims in supporting operators also in the implementation of blended activities, combining digital usability with live experience and activities. From the end of the project the platform will allow a collaborative construction, it will continue to be developed with new contents thanks to people involved in the project, and new users and creators, and due to the transferability potential of the model. Each new content will be regularly checked, following an established editorial policy and quality standards. We strongly believe that the digital experience should, when the situation will create the conditions, be PROPAEDEUTIC to an offline experience, ensuring the project’s products’ usability also when we will have the opportunity to go back to face-to-face activities and live experiences. The methodology and tools are designed for CCS operators who want to keep working in this situation that affected this sector in particular, and bring art in the educational sector; at the same time it supports operators of the educational sector who want to address specific themes with a creative and emotional experience for their users. CREATIVE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY-OPERATIONAL APPROACH aims to overcome the mere recourse to common sense or simplifying rationalizations, integrating art, pedagogy of emotions and pedagogy of reason. The project aims to create a tool that will give the opportunity to each user, operator, artists, educators, trainers, to compose their own personal customized program; an emotional educational experience that the operators address to their users who, due to the health emergency, are unable to enjoy the experience of live art, shows and workshops. A tool that provides guided listening, group exercises, interviews, insights and discussions with experts on the themes covered, podcasts, training materials, performances and educational proposals that each operator, artist, educator will be able to shape and combine with their own workshop program following the methodology that this project will provide them. CREATIVE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY-OPERATIONAL APPROACH: Creativity at the service of Education.
Our project combines a strong digital design action with a creative action in the educational field, based on the emotional experience. The project aimed, through a 2 years cooperation, to create a methodology and the tools for operators (especially from CCS) to implement creative emotional activities working in NFE contexts for young people. CEJ is an immersive, creative and emotional experience for young people; it is a themed “journey”: the approach can be implemented in various and urgent themes for society. Our Consortium, due to the internal expertises, adopted and addressed 2 specific themes (gender violence and bullying) that represent the models for practical implementation of our results. The materials take into account: *the need to provide operators with tools and a methodology to implement activities in digital or blended format that can then be combined with the live format for the CCS resilience, and *two specific objectives: - Provide ready-to-use modular materials that can be used by operators to build and customize the experience to their target - Provide operational support to guide the operators and provide them with the tools and knowledge needed to create from scratch new and original JOURNEYs.
The project’s idea was born in full lockdown from the union of artists and trainers engaged for years in educational activities in various countries of Europe. It was born in the context of a particular worldwide collective experience that involved us, and the whole European and trans-European territory, deeply in all aspects. The partners encountered, due to the outbreak of the COVID-19, the difficulty that the cultural and creative sector was facing, and looking for a solution, detected the lack of tools and methodologies to support operators in this sector. They also found, in their working practice with young people, how they have been particularly affected by the psychological and emotional consequences of high stress, fear and uncertainty. Studies across Europe showed the impact of pandemic on mental health in youth. Despite the significant contribution of the cultural and creative sectors (CCS) to the economy and people's wellbeing, the situation of the sector is often precarious; the pandemic particularly threatened their future, impacted by the enforcement of social distancing measures and the consequent cancellations or closures of events, live performances, exhibitions and cultural institutions.