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Seeing Beyond Your Nose

2025-1-LV02-KA153-YOU-0002990682025Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: LV|RO|PT|DE|TR|IT|RS|IE · Grant: €29,507
Inclusion of marginalised young peopleQuality and innovation of youth workNew learning and teaching methods and approaches

Objectives

The overall intention of this project was to bring together youth workers, educators, and creative practitioners from different countries and help them grow professionally through the exploration of artivism. From the beginning, we wanted to strengthen the quality, innovation and creativity in youth work by giving participants practical tools and inspiration to support young people in a deeper and more meaningful way. AIM The main aim of this mobility project is to enhance the quality, innovation, and creativity in youth work by developing the skills of 24 youth work practitioners to use art activism (artivism) and different creative practices for empowerment, active participation and inclusion among youth. OBJECTIVES 1. Facilitate a learning environment where different youth work practitioners come together, get to know each other’s approaches, explore typical challenges that young people face in different communities (especially related to diversity and inclusion), and become more aware of their own priorities in terms of youth empowerment and activism. 2. Experience the power of various dance, movement, and art-based activities, and explore how these creative tools can be used for youth work, youth activism, and promoting positive social changes in our societies. 3. Deepen understanding of inclusion as one of the most important social changes we want to promote by sharing personal and professional stories, breaking down the concept into manageable parts, and identifying concrete social changes needed to build more inclusive environments for youth and communities. 4. Get inspired by artivism examples from the professional art field (from different countries) that showcase strong social messages and the intention to contribute to positive societal changes; choose at least 10 examples that are easiest to adapt to the youth field and promote them through activities (during mobility and after) and through the PADLET resource space. 5. Develop skills of participants to apply creative tools in youth work by co-creating a small site-specific performance with strong artivism elements, clear social messages, and involvement of the audience. 6. Critically reflect on challenges and opportunities of introducing artivism and creative practices in the youth field and identify concrete tools, approaches, and “good practices” that participants will transfer to their local youth communities as a follow-up. This project was crucial for youth work because many youth workers feel a growing need to address social issues with young people in ways that are engaging, meaningful, and accessible. Artivism provides a powerful way to do this—it helps young people express their feelings, talk about difficult topics, and see themselves as active members of society. Many participants confirmed this in their evaluations. One wrote: “I finally feel confident to use art to talk about real problems with young people.” Another shared: “This training opened my eyes to how creative methods can make young people feel included and heard.” By working together in Lūznava, exploring personal stories, building performances, and sharing ideas, participants connected the formal objectives with real human experience. This mix of structure and creativity made the project both professionally valuable and personally meaningful. Project resources space: padlet.com/vitaminsk23/seeing

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