Fitting the Erasmus+ strategy for inclusion and diversity and the new EU Youth Strategy, the aim of the project is to organize the conditions to make 3 groups of young people benefit from high-quality measures to mobilize, connect and empower them. These groups are the targeted audience of the consortium (Samba Résille (FR), Barefeet Theatre (ZA) and Artscape (SA)). They:• Live in the streets of Lusaka, abused by malevolent adults, and/or abandoned by their parents unable to provide for them;• Are from the Cape Town townships, looking for brotherhood in a still unequal post-apartheid world;• In a situation of mental and sensorial disability, often isolated in life places closed to the outside world because of lack of means.Leaning on a SWOT diagnostic of resources, skills and experiences of the partnership, the consortium planned as an answer a program of activities of capacity building and mobility of youth workers:• Concerning 52 social facilitators (youth workers and street educators) and cultural facilitators (artists and cultural managers);• And organizing 138 individual mobilities, from which 88 are for people with less opportunities. This project has the following specific objectives:1. Give the youth workers artistic and managerial skills, increase their analysis capacities of the young people’s needs regarding their contexts, singularities, particularities or live environments, and give them the tools to build relevant answers allowing a bigger autonomy, involvement and commitment of the young vulnerable people in their daily support;2. Develop the quality and the internationalization of the partners increasing their knowledge and expertise in the distinction of opportunities of European and international learning mobility for young people and youth workers;3. Increase the involvement of the authorities, decision-makers and youth non-governmental organizations, locally and nationally, and at the African and European scale to promote the implementation of institutional and private good practices favorable for the mobilization and connection of youth in Africa and Europe. The strategy of following, evaluation and dissemination of the results of the activities has the aim to boost a dynamic to spread the visibility of the project beyond its limits, towards the external stakeholders and the targeted audiences. It encourages all partners to commit to an active process of promoting the project productions, allowing them to measure the quality of their works favorable for the socio professional inclusion and the value created at all levels thanks to an longitudinal, appreciative and participative evaluation, and aim at boosting a structured dialogue taking the form of a Euro-African summit of young leaders and decision-makers for youth around exchanges promoting the transfer of institutional and non-profit good practices facilitating the involvement, the reinforcement of skills and connection of all African and European youth.
The project pursued three complementary objectives:• To equip youth workers with artistic skills and management capabilities that are favorable to the well-being and autonomy of youth;• To develop the quality and internationalization of partner organizations by providing resources and best practices that are favorable to the local and international connection and engagement of youth;• To increase the involvement of local youth authorities in the leadership transition to youth.
This project explored the role of three cultural organizations working with vulnerable youth in unequal operational ecosystems in response to the common need to analyze and renew their socio-educational practices that use art as a tool for mediation around three related concepts:• Well-being of youth through increased capabilities ;• Creative activities that connect youth to each other and engage them ;• Ethics in leadership and transition leadership.
<< Background >> This project explored the role of three cultural organizations working with vulnerable youth in unequal operational ecosystems in response to the common need to analyze and renew their socio-educational practices that use art as a tool for mediation around three related concepts:• Well-being of youth through increased capabilities ;• Creative activities that connect youth to each other and engage them ;• Ethics in leadership and transition leadership. << Objectives >> The project pursued three complementary objectives:• To equip youth workers with artistic skills and management capabilities that are favorable to the well-being and autonomy of youth;• To develop the quality and internationalization of partner organizations by providing resources and best practices that are favorable to the local and international connection and engagement of youth;• To increase the involvement of local youth authorities in the leadership transition to youth. << Implementation >> The activity program organized 43 days of capacity building activities and 35 days of socio-educational animator mobility for 44 beneficiaries including:• 24 women and 24 men;• 30 facing economic obstacles;• 30 perceiving discrimination due to ethnic and/or sexual orientation.These latter were favored in the selection by the Transnational Steering Committee because, without the Erasmus+ funds, they would not have been able to have an equivalent experience. << Results >> The project's main impact was to transform the partner organizations into inclusive Cultural Hubs, networked in each national context and having at their disposal exploitable results from the project, including:• Increased key, creative, managerial and transversal skills;• Learning resources and teaching methods on a wide range of artistic activities;• Management, communication and evaluation tools and processes.