Trash Music
Start date: May 15, 2016,
End date: Oct 14, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Three groups of young people from Latvia (15), Greece (15) and Spain (15) plus 2 leaders, will live together for a youth exchange in December in Pontevedra, promoting intercultural coexistence, with the aim of sharing experiences and personal concerns from an integrated perspective, to sensibilice with the environment trough building reciclated musical instruments, job search and the use of music as a universal way of communication and English .Moreover, the fact of traveling to Spain for themselves, help them make friends, solve their problems using their skillsto resolve conflicts that may arise.The profile of the participants in this project are young people between 16 and 30, young people with fewer opportunities, disabledyoung people motivated by European experience with participants from other European countries.In the Genova Association, through this project we intend to create a space where young people can identify employmentopportunities, European mobility learning, awareness of environmental sustainability and especially young people to communicatewith others through music in any environment, more or less close, everyday, as are their towns and municipalities, as well as themore distant, such as national and European levels.Young people participating in this project will be trained in tools for the job. Through workshops, group dynamics and outdooractivities, cooperative attitudes are transmitted, teamwork, cultural competence, artistic and communication development,improving social and civic competence; knowledge and values that are based on the exchange of experiences and knowledge ofyoung people from participating countries. This transfer of knowledge will promote the development of specific skills. We haveplanned activities for different countries to share their customs, and they can learn from one another.Throughout this project will see the importance of teamwork, reflect on their attitudes situations to break inequality xenophobiaand stereotypes .. But also, to visualize this knowledge, we own but must be socialized as collective wealth. During the exchangeyoung acquire knowledge from practice, that is, what the People know of the experiences and feelings that arise many situationsand problems and difficulties in our environment we have in common.All the activities have a European and intercultural dimension as encourage participants to reflect on European issues and eachcountry and involve them in the construction of Europe; They offer participants the opportunity to identify common values withpeople from different countries in spite of their cultural differences; They defy viewpoints that perpetuate inequality, injustice anddiscrimination; and promote respect for cultural diversity and human rights; and fight against gender inequality and prejudices.Through our activities we want to give young people tools to facilitate labor integration, stimulate active participation of membersof a group in a group process and artistic creation, to get closer to the EVS, Eures, Europass, use ICT to support the critical thinking,creativity and innovation, etc ... based on non-formal education aimed at developing personal skills, value and opportunities thatrepresent good practice in situations of daily life activities will take place. Participants will reflect on cultural development and theenrichment of society, of the importance of cultural diversity, will realize eradicate all forms of discrimination.Upon completion of the project we will create a resource in pdf format called "good practice guide" that will be hung in allthe websites of the participating organizations. In this way all the youth and social community can access learningobtained, to the methods used to solve the problems, to evaluations and the results thereof,benefiting from these "outputs", employing them for the needs of neighboring partner organizations in each country. The idea isthat long-term participants start their own business successfully and have used the tools learned toimprove employability successfully. We hope that the relations between them remain and new collaborative networks are createddeveloping future youth exchanges together.