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Youth Engagement through Urban Arts
Youth Engagement through Urban Arts
Start date: Jan 1, 2015,
End date: Dec 31, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
Urban art including music, dance, and graffiti, attracts and engages young people, they relate to it as a cross cultural medium of expression and a platform to voice their hope and fears, views and concerns. Therefor this project was formed in order to utilise urban art as a means for promoting marginalised young people's integration and active participation in their communities and in Europe.
The aim of the project was to promote inclusive avenues for young people's active citizenship and participation in Europe through Urban Arts as a means of engagement.
The participants involved in the project activities were youth leaders who have, or intend to work with young marginalised people in their communities, and as such the project focus is to capacitate these youth leaders and furthermore their organisations by equipping them with new inspirations, methods and tools for their current or future work with marginalised young people.
The project consisted of two activities:
?Take the Lead' - Citizenship through urban art - a training course over 10 nights that took place will take place in Derby, United Kingdom and attended by 24 youth leaders from 6 different countries - United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Lithuania, Romania and Denmark. The theme of the training was the promotion of active citizenship and participation amongst marginalised young people in Europe through Urban Arts as a means of engagement. The training was based on non-formal learning methods and is designed to encourage reflection, and the sharing of experience. Activities of the training included simulations and interactive exercises, workshops, presentations, discussions and group work. The training is designed in a way that it provided cross-cultural learning for youth leaders, and promoted cross national cooperation.
Step Up; - Music as a method for inclusion ? A training course over a period of 10 nights in Chisinau, Moldova, attended by 24 youth leaders from The United Kingdom, Denmark, Moldova, Georgia, Portugal and Armenia. The theme of the training was integration of Urban Music in efforts to promote the inclusion of marginalized youth in society. The methods used in the project were non formal, through workshops, observation and interactive discussions and activities, this way they could both learn new methods, but also actively participate, reflect, and share knowledge and experiences. All activities are designed so that participants will have active involvement, and be encouraged to reflect upon their learning.
These activities enhanced youth leaders competences and skills in promoting and developing the inclusion of marginalised groups of young people in their communities. They gained new perspectives on inclusion, citizenship and participation with regards to marginalised youth. They acquired methods and tools to promote and develop these through urban art and music.
The impact of this project is an increased quality and quantity of activities that target the social development and integration of young marginalised people through methods that they can directly relate to and connect to. As a result of this, the effect is a more inclusive and tolerant society based upon democratic values, whereby both minority and majority groups have a platform in which to have a voice.