"Music On Wheels is an international music project organized by and for young people, exploring the borders of Europe to make music together. This initiative, which literally connects Northern with Southern Europe, is supported by 15 young people from Belgium, Portugal and Norway. These young people were brought together by a shared passion for (hiphop-)music and a warm heart for artistic youth work.This project tackles media literacy, talent discovery and talent development, entrepreneurship, community building, social inclusion and Youth participation. Through 3 international training courses in 2020-2021, the 15 participants jointly explore the borders of Europe to make music through a process of co-creation. In this process, they involve other children and youngsters from disadvantaged neighborhoods through a mobile music studio. The voice of young people growing up in deprivation is still too little heard. Music On Wheels wants to make this voice sound loudly by creating rap texts and hip-hop tracks about current European topics such as equality, social inclusion, diversity, identity, etc. These songs and lyrics will be shared with local and international politicians, to make sure the message of the youth gets heard. This project promotes active citizenship and wants to make politicians aware about the difficult realities a lot of young people are confronted with. Music On Wheels also experiments with the use of Virtual Reality technology (VR) in musical experience. Before the first physical meeting, the young people already met each other in a VR-environment. This project builds bridges from youth work to other sectors, such as IT. We aim for approximately 400 young people actively involved in this project. To end this one-year project, we will organize a closing-event where young people from Belgium, Portugal and Norway get the chance to present their project results. On this event we would like to focus on sharing good practices concerning the use of VR as a tool in (musical) youth projects. After this project, everyone who was involved in this project will have the opportunity to put her/his portfolio on the Music On Wheels platform. For us it is important to make sure the young talents remain visible, so they can be ""booked"" by actors in and outside youth work. Through an individual growth-trajectory, focussing on our young talents, we contribute to a sustainable result striving for independence."

"Artists, particularly young ones, have generally struggled with finding paid work, and this lack of opportunities has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis as it has hit the cultural and creative sectors particularly hard. At the same time, within the wide spectrum of arts, street arts/graffiti has been a powerful conductor of social intervention/awareness, an extraordinary added value that’s not always duly recognized and awarded. However, despite highly attracting many youngsters and recently gaining some expanded venues with corporate work, it has not yet reached a general consensus/public acceptance, being still frowned upon by many people. And so, there is still a big lack of street and other public venues wherein to legally place this art despite this being its original context, because it is still misunderstood by the authorities and property owners in general.In this context, the organisations involved wanted to create opportunities to enhance young graffiti artists self-sufficiency, and emphasize their power to convey important messages about global issues, such as environment/climate change and youth participation, being these two subjects a great source of concern in societies all around.Within this context of issues for young artists today, GATS aims at having them make street art and graffiti (for simplicity, ""graffiti"" only will be used for the rest of the application) art pieces in publicly accessible ways. Which will provide them an opportunity to work, reaching a wide audience of people appreciating their art, without even having to go to enclosed locations, while openly promoting the aforementioned social messages. And, at the same time further promote and legitimate this form of art, with the production of a short-film, focusing on its social, artistic and cultural added value and on breaking myths around it. Thus, it’s objectives are:Obj.1 - Create opportunities for young artists to display their art while also promoting their own activist goalsObj.2 - Equip young artists with more developed skills, and increased audience and networkObj.3 - Deliver products that contribute to the legitimation of graffitiObj.4 - Prompt young people to become more active and participate in social causes, with a focus on environmental and climate change.GATS main target-group are young graffiti artists, and the hope is to meet their needs for more overall work opportunities; more venues available to broadcast their messages; skills development in terms of networking, marketing, entrepreneurship, etc., directed at enhancing their overall employability and self-sufficiency; higher acceptance/legitimisation of their art form, as it still remains perceived by many as illegal and harmful, and not ""art"".In addition, through the messages about climate change and youth participation, other young people are also targeted, the intention being that the messages from the art pieces will move more youth to become more active about those causes or others close to them.As such, the expected results are:- 20 young graffiti artists with more developed professional skills and enlarged audience and network of contacts- messages about environment and youth participation/activism promoted and disseminated among over 40,000 people (total expected foot traffic in the venues in a year)- enhancement of the graffiti public image and legitimacy as an art form, through the advocating potential of the art pieces delivered and the short-filmThe envisioned GATS impacts, from short to long-term, are an advancement in the acknowledgment of graffiti as a legitimate art form, able to connect and promote social intervention, by raising awareness about local and global issues. Which in turn has a great potential to mobilise youth to be more active, in terms of citizenship, as graffiti is a powerful vehicle of communication that usually resonates very well among them. While developing skills in young artists, can boost this field and its employability and self-sufficiency, opening more doors for it to happen in public spaces, and other venues.As a spin-off effect, we believe that the graffiti locations will benefit from the increased tourism revenue that can come from the participation/visibility in such an artistic (transnational) venture, a clear result from the dissemination of the project.Lastly, GATS strongly entails the potential to not only benefit individuals and broadcast important messages, but also to contribute to an art field that is sometimes remiss of its own place of origin. Graffiti has been used in its history to broadcast numerous public opinions, and as the political regimes across Europe have changed and the generations have grown it exposes and testifies to the changing culture. This project would, in its own way, make a small contribution to an important part of Europe's culture."

In the strategic partnership FAE (Fusion of Art and Education) we will focus on the cooperation between adult educators and artists. We think this collaboration will help to develop the competences for the artists and the adult educators to launch educational and artistic projects, which are important for the future of democracy and participation. Involved are four expierenced organisations from Germany (HochVier - Gesellschaft für politische und Interkulturelle Bildung), Italy (CESIE), Portugal (Embaixada da Juventude) and Austria (uniT GmbH).They will do a research about the state of the art of the use of art and artists in adult education (IO1), organize examplary artistic and educational courses/events/pilot projects (IO2) and give recommandations about a further fruitfull collaboration of art and education (IO3).The project has four target groups:For the residents of the involved regions, communities or urban spaces the project will•give the participants a voice, make their needs visible and audible. The projects have to involve residents or members of the chosen community to reflect on their situation by using the means of art.•foster and stimulate dialogue, communication and discussion among the participants. •increase democratic partizipation and democratic development of society•raise awareness for the beneficiaries that they can do something to change a situation, to design a better future for them and to fight for their visions and ideas.•increase identification with their region, district etc. and the inclusion and communication between different groups in the according territory. Results for the artists•The project gives the artists a chance to demonstrate what art can do for a society, communities etc.•It can give an example of a two- way cooperation between art and adult education, which can also be a role model for other types of cooperation with other important institutions in society. •It will increase the competences of artists to run this type of project in cooperation together with other institutions. Results for the adult educators and adult education organisations•Gathering experiences how arts and adult education can cooperate, how the different approaches can create synergetic effects for the final beneficiaries and how the different roles in the project can be defined clearly, so that all the partners can bring in their own strengths•Increasing the competences to implement such cooperative projects and to see what additional competencies adult educators and organisations working in the field of adult education will need to run these projects and to implement the cooperation successfully•Motivating organisations for adult education to engage artists for projectsResults for target groups of dissemination•Artists’ unions and organisations, artists, adult educators and their organisations as well as politicians and stakeholders are here target groups. The project offers good practice examples, ideas, concepts and recommendations for cooperation between art and education.All outputs will be available as free OER downloads on the project's website and the websites of the participating organisations. The OER products and the link to these websites will also be published on EPALE as on other platforms.The projects website will remain online and updated available beyond project length so that an easy access to our dissemination materials is guaranteed. For the website we want to produce content even after the project has finished and want to establish as one important site for people looking for information about art and artists in adult education.The eight Multiplier Events are according to IO2 and IO3. They want show results, recommandations and best practise to a wider public and so dissaminate. At the same time they serve for discussion, reflection, evaluation and further development.First the project results will be disseminated into the participating organisations to improve the structures and procedures of the involved organisations and their staff's competences and expertise in using art and artists.The outside targets for disseminating the intellectual outcomes are adult education providers at all levels but also individual educators and artists, their organisations, stakeholder, politicians etc.

"The isolation experienced by people during the pandemic, especially those alone or in difficulty, has implied a sense of loss and, at the same time, the desire, conscious or unconscious, to rediscover social relationships. With this project we intend to offer, in compliance with all the safety regulations that will be foreseen, activities useful for regaining self-confidence and capable of supporting and promoting concrete social inclusion.The main objective is to reach the largest number of people to whom to offer activities conceived and designed to counteract loneliness, promote socialization and well-being, to regain confidence and will to live. All this represents the first step to reach another goal concerning that intentional individual process that aims at the acquisition of roles and competences and which involves a relatively stable change over time, particularly useful for achieving active citizenship, that is to say direct participation to civil life through three key skills: knowing and knowing how to think, knowing how to be and knowing how to do.The main expected result is to create well-being among the people who decide to get involved in the planned activities, which we can translate into pleasure, commitment and awareness in what is being done. The operators of the various partner organizations must present themselves with empathic leadership towards these people, demonstrating above all a particular sensitivity. The planned activities concern various cultural and artistic sectors. There are contemporary dance workshops which, in addition to providing various benefits to the body and mind, are able to promote socialization and interrelationships; all this, with the help of professional dancers and making use of informal settings, can become a ""cure"" in the sense that the experts will take care of the participants through supervision, concern and attention towards them.Interactive music workshops will also be set up using any disused object or material being able to produce a sound. It can be transformed into an instrument without you having to be a musician and there is no limit to creativity.Starting from an initial idea, all participants, people from different socio-cultural backgrounds and with different skills, will have the opportunity to contribute to the process of musical composition and performance.In this case, group musical work is an optimal way of learning to include and integrate into a single entity, defined on the basis of a common goal. Furthermore, the philosophy of material recovery, in addition to contributing to raising awareness on the issues of reducing waste of resources and recycling, will add a dimension to creative development, which can also be applied outside the strictly musical sphere.Altre attività includono laboratori dedicati a persone in difficoltà emotiva, sociale ed economica che saranno i protagonisti di documentari in cui racconteranno la loro esperienza durante il lock down.Narrative exhibition is a short-term therapy also suitable for those who have experienced traumatic experiences: through exposure, with the help of a facilitator, it will be possible to reflect on one's life as a whole and also promote a reorganization of one's identity in degree to allow for an adequate social life.The sharing of the different practices implemented and presented by the different partners, in relation to their skills in different but relevant areas, can lead to significant changes in the operators and in the personnel of the staff both as individuals and as members of a team within their organizations.The whole teaching-learning process will continue and must continue to be united, in all its various phases, by the practice of an inclusive and empathic non-formal education; the evaluation must take into account the progress in terms of soft skills acquired by the beneficiaries, as well as the consequent degree of satisfaction. Following the dissemination of good practices, it is hoped that an increase in user participation will enable the validation of lifelong learning which aims to enable each individual who practices it to respond effectively to the changes and challenges that will arise during life; and also the possibility, by the operators involved in the project, to participate in residential experiences and discussion tables based on the exchange of good practices with European / international realities engaged in permanent creative training."

Education frequently fails to deliver skills important for employment&life, so that arts and culture should be seen as ”forces” to deliver relevant skills. Traditional teaching&learning collapses across UE becoming obsolete because European societies will be more inter-cultural, flexible and inclusive.In our countries, traditional education system fails as long as generations leaving school become NEETs. Eurostat statistics show that: RO 17,3%, ES 16%, FR 14%, PT 9,5%.Youth work must increase inclusion&narrow gap between competences acquired by young people&needs labour market including by using methods based on arts&culture. Societal&technological changes are transforming what it means to express oneself creatively. Youth are now able to access instruction&inspiration, produce their own content, reach audiences in ways that were impossible before social media advent&affordable technology (Instagram, YouTube etc.). And yet, a fifth of young people aged 16-24 do not create or participate in arts.Partnership transnational assessment pointed out the following needs:- poor access to art&culture for young people in general, for the vulnerable in particular.- youth workers are not enough prepared for creating inclusive settings through arts&multiculturalism. - limited acces to digital resources&tools to foster youth entrepreneurship in cultural and creative domains.Project partners respond with difficulty to these challenges too. Similar needs are highlighted: youth demand to be equipped with transversal skills otherwise they would fail. Failing leads to EXCLUSION throughout their lives. Youth should find different activities&artistic projects to develop their creativity, talents and potential. Experts&youth workers, other key actors need a renewed&fresh approach to be inclusive&supportive for all.AIM:To create a collaborative framework enabling youth workers and other professionals involved in youth work to increase the quality of their work and their initiatives&services for supporting young people (including the vulnerable ones) to develop their creative potential, to have professional&personal success and to be connected to the cultural and creative sectors through Arts&Creativity Programs and an entrepreneurial mindset.OBJECTIVES:O1. Creating at least 4 innovative resources (methodological&pedagogical resources) to support quality work, practices&activities for innovatively stimulate new settings that support youth in higher competences on labour market&social inclusion through arts&culture in 4 countries/at european level.O2. Providing support for more real-world applications, trans-disciplinary inclusive learning environments that stimulate at least 2 transferable competences of 21st Century (creativity, entreprenuerial mindset) of youth in a larger context of community (arts, culture, digitalizations, social trends, creative sectors).TARGET GROUPS:- Youth workers, as well as other experts involved in youth work.- Youth NGOs/NGOs with programs for vulnerable young people&informal groups to adopt a flexible approach to support youth inclusion through arts, culture related education, talents capitalizing.- youth at risk (unemployed, NEETs, facing economic, social barriers, disabled youth etc.).- Resource centers for young people&volunteers.- Public authorities with youth focus.CORE RESULTS - 4 complex IOs: a) IO1 - ”Out of the Box” – Digital Cards for developing Creativity using STAR Technique.b) IO2 - ”Connected2smARTS” – as a virtual space where young people can freely collaborate with other people from any domain of arts. They can interact, connect and create own artistic stuff around transversal themes of humanity (as Inclusion, Solidarity, Love, Participation, Tolerance, Life etc.).c) IO3 - ”Youth workers - let’s be smARTS” - a digital kit for planning, developing&implementing Arts&Creativity Programs using digital tools.d) IO4 - ”Social Entrepreneurship for smARTS” – a Training Pack with 5 modules (as OER – Open Educational Resources) developing abilities so important for running a successful social business in arts and creative sectors by youth.Entire project outcome - it gives an impetus to youth&youth worker&NGOs to adopt and use high quality&innovative tools in their work, progressively redefine the boundaries between formal, non-formal and informal learning of youth using the tools&methods based on Arts&Creativity.Project period - 24 months. Federation for Accessibility of Romania is lead partner. Consortium consists of:- ACE-ES Romania- Fundación COREMSA, Spain- Embaixada da Juventude (Youth Embassy), Portugal- Tous pour l'Europe, France.