7 Trails for Mixity is 18 months project aiming at reinforcing the capacity of 7 youth organizations and networks from 4 continents (Europe with Bulgaria, Spain, Italy and France; South-Africa; India; Mexico) with a central objective to open youth activities and programs/policies to all young people including those with disabilities and other discrimited minorities and migrants. We want to show that all youth activities and especially those involving arts and cultures should be opened to all young people as a key tool for personal and professional development and whatever their origins or situations are, to increase mutual understanding and benefits among all young people and citizens and to stop the isolation of a large part of the young people staying in specialized centres and under-representated in the medias and cultural spheres. These modern marginalisation of an important fringe of our youth should be stopped through the development of new mixed activities planned in order to give the opportunity to everyone to know each other, to approach our differences and to all be able to express ourselves and to get access to our full rights and citizenship. Through renewed artistic practises, exchanges of good practices and non formal education methods we want to develop new ways to create these interrelations, mutual benefits, in a new generalized mixed context. For that, we have planned to organize 7 phases to meet, observe, exchange and elaborate new common good practices based on jobs shadowing in Mexico (music), Mumbai (visual arts and meditative techniques), Durban (danse, circus and mouvement) and Catalan Pyrenees (theatre), with 20 youth workers and multiple experts involved, in order to experiment new non-formal methods during a 3 weeks youth exchange in France with 50 young people from our organizations and with a real representation of the diversity and the mixity of our societies to be able to test and evaluate the future applicability in our organizations and networks. To share and disseminate the results, we have set a week-long training course in Bulgaria with 30 highly motivated youth workers chosen from our networks of associated partners in the youth field and with a big potential to create and implement these new activities and methods to act as multipliers and members of our international network and online ressources plateform. An international common day dedicated to Mixity will also be launched simultaneously with the goal to inform the public, to reach the public opinion through media campaigns, to attract new activists and organizations and to sign new partnership agreements with private and public entities to participate to this important dynamic of social inclusion and tranformation. 4 different meetings will be organized between the 3 mobility phases in Italy, France and Bulgaria to prepare, evaluate, control and follow the activities and common scheme and program to reach the expected results and impact of the project.
7 Trails for Mixitywas/is an 18 months project aiming at reinforcing the capacity of 7 youth organizations and networks from 4 continents (Europe with Bulgaria, Spain, Italy and France; South-Africa; India; Mexico) with a central objective to open youth activities and programs/policies to all young people including those with disabilities and other discriminated minorities such as migrants and refugees. We focused on showing that all youth activities and especially those involving arts and cultures have to be opened to all young people as a key tool for their personal and professional development and whatever their origins or situations. We have based our experiment on the idea that “mixity”, introduced and practiced through art techniques, increase mutual understanding, skill development, expression, benefit to all young people and citizens. And stop the isolation of a large part of the young people staying in specialized centres, under-representated in the medias and cultural spheres. Their cultural expression and contributions are key factors for our societies and reveal its strength and values beyond the youth sector. Our project showed it is a powerful tool for social inclusion, for self and collective construction and representation of all youth. To reach this goal, we did organize 7 phases. 3 mobility activities took place in 4 continents to meet, observe, exchange, elaborate and transmit new common good practices. In between, 4 different meetings have been organized in Italy, France and Bulgaria to prepare, evaluate, control and follow the activities and common scheme and program to reach the expected results and impact of the project.Various methods have been collected during 4 jobs shadowing in Mexico (music), Mumbai (visual arts and meditative techniques), Durban (dance, circus and movement) and Catalan Pyrenees (theatre), involving 21 youth workers and multiple experts.Those non-formal methods have being experimented during a 3 weeks youth exchange in France with 51 young people from our organizations, from different backgrounds, as diverse as our societies are. Richness of discussions about mixity, societal issues, proposals of participants, adapted methods brought the all group in an inclusive creative process. That led to many realizations: performances, happening, sculptures, exhibitions shared with local audience of 850 persons and built string links between participants, partner organizations. To share and disseminate the methods experimented, we have set a week-long training course in Bulgaria with 28 highly motivated youth workers chosen from our networks of associated partners in the youth field and with a big potential to create and implement these new activities and methods to act as multipliers and members of our international network. Methodological resources produced are available online: website / platform www.7trailsformixity.org easy to access and to use. An international common day dedicated to Mixity has being launched simultaneously on 10th of October 2019 with the goal to inform the public, to reach the public opinion, to attract new activists and organizations. It will be happening in 2020 as well and in the future we hope.In addition, social networks, local and online medias, Erasmus+ results platform contribute to disseminateoutcomes to more than 12000 people from all continents. Our activities have brought new and real skills, methods, networks and perspectives for the 140 direct participants. It has enriched the fields of action and enlarge networks of the 7 organizations iwith new approaches and common and transversal possible projects and with new partners found in their countries thanks to the project. It has changed us, our local communities and the process is fully continuing with numbers of dissemination actions comming for a crucial movement for equity, civil rights and self and collective construction, contribution and expression of all youth.