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Accredited project in the field of youth

2022-1-HU01-KA151-YOU-0000681912022Mobility of young people for accredited organisationsfinalized
Countries: HU · Grant: €49,555

Objectives

The 2022 edition of the Academy for Actors of Civil Change brings changes in the project narrative because after reassessing the experience of previous years, we focus on three of the European Union's Basic Principles: social inclusion, gender equality, and environmental consciousness. The project addresses the training needs in social, educational, and artistic fields, targeting ignored groups. Professionals often lack non-formal methods for sensitive topics, so we aim to provide tools and international collaboration opportunities. Through youth worker mobility, we support two target groups, the participants, and their target groups. Double-purpose development – Enhancing youth workers' capabilities indirectly improves the competencies of the young people they engage with. All partners work with disadvantaged youth, developing capabilities and local impact. International level – Socially engaged cultural activities usually occur nationally or regionally. Our special program fosters knowledge transfer between European organizations, sharing best practices across disciplines and backgrounds. The Academy aims to create a European social theatre network for collaboration and best practice sharing, evolving yearly based on current needs. Future goals include maximizing long-term impacts, and responsive to changing needs. Since 2014, partners, participants, and the core team have evolved and experimented, continuously learning and improving the project. The Academy project remains responsive to changing needs. Objectives achieved: O1: This objective includes support of dialogue and intercultural encounters with other participants and people from different backgrounds and cultures. Celebration of cultural diversity through arts and production of a large-scale intercultural Social Arts Exchange. Our project broadens the minds of all involved groups coming from different social and educational backgrounds. The participants experience the differences between different cultures and subcultures and learn from each other. Most socially engaged cultural activities are made on a national, or on an even lower, regional level. There is no exchange between cultural actors in this field on a transnational level. With this particular program, we aim to exchange and develop the ‘best practices’ by knowledge transfer between European organisations sharing similar goals but coming from different disciplines and backgrounds. O2: Participants come from different countries, giving them a taste of each country's culture. Among the participants of the Academy, they can be in a safe space, as all participants (including organizers, mentors, and local stakeholders) have a deep understanding of the situation and the context as the primary target group of the youth workers in the Academy are underprivileged youngsters. These participants usually come from families with a lower level of income, and they have fewer opportunities to participate in international projects and practice English. In this context, the Academy must open to such participants. During the 2-week training, all participants are treated as equals, and they are all equally involved in each activity. Participants are supported in tackling obstacles and turning ideas into action during the whole duration of the training. O3: In the Academy, we place great emphasis on the development of professional competencies that improve employability and contribute to capacity building for quality youth work. Participants are practising their freshly gained skills in the local community contexts. In the community, we develop social, personal, and group work skills too. We create space to raise awareness of the importance of youth leadership. We aim to educate and work towards openness of the common mindset and to initiate Europewide social activities for the underprivileged. We aim to give them tools for their daily work with underprivileged young people and provide the opportunity to experiment in collaboration with international peers before they continue their work enriched by the learning tools and observations on their own. Experiencing with making social art practices fit for the digital age.

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