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Culture Guides for marginalised social groups
Start date: Oct 1, 2013,

The EU states have as a main cultural policy goal to promote art and culture to the entire population, but are confronted with the recurring problem of large residual groups of non-users, especially among social marginalised. The most appropriate way to meet this problem is by “citizen help citizen”. Therefore the partnership, including five national umbrellas for voluntary arts and culture, intends to provide new “culture guide services”, where volunteers can act as guides by introducing and helping marginalised social groups to participate in local art and culture activities. The project deliver 1. Improved organisational capacity of voluntary arts and culture associations to facilitate the culture guide services 2. Innovative curricula and training course modules for culture guide volunteers. 3. New knowledge, methods and practises from a series of multilateral pilot works providing varying culture offerings to different marginalised groups in different living areas4. A European Handbook presenting the know-how, methodologies, and Best Practise of culture guide services5. Two pilot Grundtvig IST-courses, for facilitators and volunteers. 6. A sustainable valorisation of the results, including a concluding European Conference, and a European network for facilitators and volunteers engaged in culture guide services, Envisaged impacts: • The new services will be incorporated to some degree in the ordinary activities of the European sector of voluntary arts and culture associations. • The concept will be known and gain political, ideological or financial support from main stakeholders. • The offerings will help parts of the social marginalised to a change, where they feel lesser excluded, gain more self-esteem, experience personal development and improve their quality of life.
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