Building Blocks - Volunteering as a capacity build..
Building Blocks - Volunteering as a capacity building tool.
Start date: Dec 1, 2015,
End date: Dec 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Context/background of project: The arts and cultural sector now amounts to around 4% of European GBP, remaining even in financially challenging times a growth sector. Across Europe and beyond the arts and cultural industries make valuable and significant contributions to the social and economic wellbeing of society as a whole. Through developing the skills and competences of our EVS project participant’s in arts engagement; practical project delivery; cultural sector enterprise initiatives; professional networking and post conflict development we build their capacities and capabilities to access employment within the arts and cultural sector and act as youth leaders and multipliers.
The objectives:
To provide quality international mobility opportunities for young people from challenging backgrounds;
To enable young people to understand enterprise initiative within the cultural industries;
To gain new competences and experiences of cultural sector business development;
To deepen knowledge, skills and attitude in order to better organize international arts projects;
To capacity build the participants through practical workshops, networking, partnership building activities;
To provide insight into employment development within the cultural sector;
To explore models of arts development that act as key tools and drivers for youth employment and wider community development.
Number and profile of participants: 8 young people in total from backgrounds of less opportunity.
Description of activities: Preparation meetings in our partners national context.
Implementation: 12 months of capacity building workshops, presentations, volunteering in community arts; training sessions, networking opportunities, evaluations and digital capture.
Follow up: Through our project we will see the development of a strategic framework for sustainable cooperation, which will include:
Network development brouhaha coordinates a global network of arts and cultural organizations with the aim to develop sustainable cooperation;
Building Capacity and Capability: An essential part of this project is to build our partner organization, through the sharing of skills, knowledge and experience, ensuring future international work. This area of activity will hopefully have a measured impact on the sustainability of our EVS partnership.;
Methodology to be used in carrying out the project: Non-formal working methods for this project will include: Discussions; Peer group learning; Informal training sessions; Practical skills sessions; Theoretical seminars; Group meetings; Evaluations; Networking opportunities; Digital and multimedia training and Inter cultural activities.
A short description of the results and impact envisaged: Through this project our group of young volunteers will have:
Developed a range of professional skills and competencies;
Developed new projects within Erasmus+;
Gained confidence in their abilities to produce new inter cultural projects;
Developed their professional skills in post conflict development.
Potential longer term benefits for this project will be:
Develop the capacity of our partner to collaborate in future initiatives;
For the volunteers to develop micro enterprises within their own local/national context;
Deepening knowledge, skills and attitude in order to better organize international projects;
Provide insight into international best practice in relation to social development within the cultural sector;
Explore models of arts development that act as key tools and drivers for youth employment and wider community development;
For the participants to further create and develop the possibility for new international mobility experiences that impact on their professional development and employability.
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