For several years, the Bordeaux Rock association has been working for and with young people around its speciality, the music documentary, in order to act in the field of education. This format is used as an educational tool because it is a vector of societal themes. In view of the success of these pedagogical devices (screenings, debates, workshops), the association wished to mix the audiences of young Europeans in an intercultural dynamic. Thanks to the training of the young staff of Bordeaux Rock in the field of image education and the setting up of a youth exchange between high school students from Riga and Bordeaux, partly supervised by the young people of the association Bordeaux Rock, we wanted the young target audience of this project to develop their capacities of analysis and reflection through the music documentary. The goal was to stimulate creativity via several methods of pedagogical approach which link theory and practice, in particular within the framework of the creation of a European youth jury prize during Musical Ecran 2022, the objective being to bring pedagogical tools to the youth in education and training.
This project is part of the continuity of the European projects in the field of education led by the association Bordeaux Rock. It is the logical continuation of its European development and makes sense in view of the educational devices it offers to young audiences throughout the year as part of its Musical Ecran festival, a festival of music documentaries located in Bordeaux. Contacted by some partners, the Bordeaux Rock association starts to be identified on a European scale and finds an interest in the mixing of European structures and in the creation of a multicultural youth project which puts forward our field of speciality: the music documentary. Wishing to renew the bond between the European youth and to give them critical tools allowing them to understand the world which surrounds them, this project allowed us to answer the following needs: a gain of competences in cultural action, a mobilization of the young public and a recognition in Europe, the creation of an intercultural exchange, an opening of the critical spirit of the young people thanks to the musical documentary, the perennial collaboration between European structures and the promotion of the programs Erasmus+ Youth.