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Inspire through Arts - Creative Youth Work Development Seminar
Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The Inspire through Arts - Creative Youth Work development Seminar is aimed at youth workers/ young people working in the youth field aged 18-35yrs from the UK, The Netherlands, Moldova and Georgia, who want to improve theirwork practice and engage more young people in their activities, want to raise an awareness of social issues e.g EU unemployment and want to engage more young people and reach wider audiences. The 5 day seminar has been developed to improve quality and innovation and promotion practices in youth work and improve the access to personal and professional development, especially for young people with fewer opportunities, working in the youth field. This seminar provides an interactive approach to informal learning and is designed to be peer to peer so youth workers can learn from one another, and is designed to get youthworkers to use the best of their creative arts skills to be effective in youth work and develop a more professional image and approach to raising an awareness of social issues in their communities and reaching the wider public. Participants will take part in training, performing arts and technical workshops and will develop a social campaign and digital arts material and showcase at an exhibition/screening in London. Progress will be tested after a 1-2months post seminar with each participant encouraged to use their new skills from seminar in their work (in form of training, social campaign etc..) and feedback to partner groups. The key aims are to: To increase innovative and creative practices to inspire and engage young people. To increase quality of youth work and enable them to become effective leaders, evoking social change in their communities. To raise an awareness of different social issues and increased promotion of their activities To learn about personal branding, social campaigns and digital and creative arts practices in youthwork and improve professional image To develop better skills in ICT To increase employability and personal development To increase understanding of policies, practices and needs of young people with fewer opportunities from different cultural backgrounds. To stimulate a confidence and a sense of entrepreneurship and ownership of their work To create a link between professional business practices and social work To develop partnerships and pathways for future development and innovation practices with stakeholders in the youth work field.
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