For the European Union to benefit the economic and cultural potential of creative industries, the places of experimentation and innovation have to open to the world and be conceived to make the skills of the cultural organisations grow, and to and allow them to support the birth of a new cultural generation. “Cultural construction of youth and young construction of culture” is a project led by Samba Résille (FR) in partnership with Barefeet Theatre (ZA) and Artscape (SA), 3 cultural organisations leaning on creative innovation of young people.Following the analytic diagnosis of experiential skills of youth accessing to art and culture as an experience of personal growth, led before the application by the consortium, the partners want to enrich and renew their pedagogical approaches and analyse various works regarding public politics in Europe and Africa, focusing on questions about trends of youth culture and obstacles limiting culture access. The stakes analysed in the preliminary works led the consortium to build a program targeting the needs observed in each of the organisations, to give space to creativity, to adapt to the needs of participants, to incorporate the experiential knowledge trough innovating numerical certifications, and to empower the spirit of enterprise and initiative.This program plans 40 days of strengthening skills activities and 30 days of mobility for youth and social workers, and benefit to 126 persons, including 90 youth stake-holders. Among them, 72 youth workers with less opportunities will be particularly supported. Thanks to the Erasmus + program, they will live an never dreamed experience. The strategy of monitoring, evaluating, and releasing the results of the various activities tends to impulse a dynamic spreading the project visibility beyond its limits, towards the external stake-holders and the targets. It encourages all partners to commit in a process adding value to the productions of the project, allowing them to measure the quality of their works facilitating the socio-professional inclusion and to measure the value created at all levels thanks to a longitudinal, appreciative and participative evaluation. By the translational characteristic of the partnership and the cooperation, by the complementarity and the synergy with the projects led in national and European frames, and by the search of harmonisation in methods of certification allowing a sustainability of the cooperation, this project fits perfectly the 2020 strategy of the European Union and contributes to the realisation of general goals of the renewed frame for the European cooperation for youth.
Led by Samba Résille (FR) in partnership with Barefeet Theatre (ZA) and Artscape (SA), 3 cultural and youth organizations using all the potential of the cultural sector to increase the well-being of the most vulnerable young people that they support daily, this project targeted the artistic, technical and managerial skill improvement of the youth stakeholders of the partnership, composed of activity leaders, artistic contributors, trainers, facilitators and managers, employees and volunteers.The program of activities, built to answer the needs identified in the analytic diagnostic of each organization, organized 34 days of activities of capacity building and 30 days of mobility of socio-educational facilitators for 55 beneficiaries, divided in 120 individual mobilities, of which 88 people have less opportunities; these participants were favored during the selection phase because without the Erasmus + resources, they could not have lived a similar experience.The program of activities adapted to the needs and capacities of the participants, gave room to creativity and leant on non-formal training to reach the targeted tangible and intangible results, as following:• Learning material and methodologies leaning on esthetics, facilitation and mediation technics, modules on forum theatre towards young people living in the streets, and awareness modules on blindness and low-vision care;• Tools and managerial processes regarding the logical frame and the implementation of evaluation strategies and promotion of results;• Sharing of knowledge and experiences regarding the inclusive public policies and artistic mediation practices, according the contexts of vulnerability of youth in each country, the analysis on certification and access to cultural jobs, comparisons on artist status, public funding for youth and culture, economic models, internationalization strategies, management processes, and presentations on opportunities of European funding;• Created or transferred tools between stakeholders like music scores, pedagogical index cards, presentations of good socio-educational practices, models of transferable actions, narrative platform to share the results composed of documentation of participants, several artistic works, typical cooking recipes from each organization and communicational brochures.The results of the longitudinal, participative and collaborative led evaluation allowed observing the transformations at the individual and organizational scales by a social and transversal capacity building of all the participants, and an increase of motivation of the teams of the partnerships to accompany more and better the most vulnerable youth.The communication strategy of the activities of the project, and the dissemination and exploitation of results strategy allowed to reach a large audience, internally among the staff (358) and the young people in the consortium (23200), in the networks composed of youth and cultural associations, public institutions, local authorities and regional and local media (3900). Finally, this project allowed to legitimate 3 organizations in their national contexts on their capacities to produce action-research regarding the efficiency of the cultural tool as a way to contribute to the well-being of the young people to engage, connect and empower them*, phase during which the partnership wishes to commit to continue the collaboration.* https://ec.europa.eu/youth/policy/youth-strategy_en