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New impulses for youth culture: building bridges through music and community

Music is more than just sound – it connects people all over the world. No matter where someone comes from or where they are going, music is always there and creates a universal language. Especially when working with young people, music proves to be a powerful tool for building communities and promoting intercultural dialogue.

Normen Dommann from Outreach describes this aptly:

‘Music is simply a universal language. No matter where you go and no matter where you come from, people everywhere make music. It is the oldest form of communication. In this respect, music is fundamentally well suited to building bridges, bringing people together and creating a sense of community. In our work, we establish a dialogue with young people who identify with popular youth cultures by acknowledging and respecting their approach to music, film, media, sport, fashion, games, etc. We then try to work with them to create offers for them. We then try to work with them to create programmes that match their interests.’

This work is also reflected in our current project, which invites young people to creatively organise their spaces and ideas. With various formats such as music workshops, film projects and open platforms, we are creating new opportunities to focus on cultural interests and build bridges together.

Find out more about our project and discover how young people shape their world:
Padlet link: Project Your Space

ACCESS Roundtable: Empower, Connect, Engage

The Access project advocates for the creation of open institutional spaces to promote resilience, mutual support, and democratic communities in Berlin and across Europe. The goal of the roundtable was to discuss sustainable solutions to actively involve young people in political and societal processes. This event provided an opportunity to benefit from the expertise of the participants. Participants joined in a praxis-oriented roundtable to jointly explore tools and methods of a social space-oriented approach developed in the framework of the Access Project. Attendees were invited to present their good practices and jointly evaluate strategies for the empowerment of young people in Berlin. Further details could be found HERE.

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Online-meeting on project results, Erasmus+ days at Access & YourSpace

In the framework of ErasmusDays, today, between 10-11:30 an online-meeting was launched by the BGZ with the scope to disseminate and present to an online audience the results of two current projects in the field of Youth Education. A wide online visibility was ensured benefiting from the outreach of the Erasmus Days platform. The focus of the online roundtable was on the achievements of joint results in the field of youth empowerment and engagement through exchange of practices from the Access and YourSpace projects. Key aspects of international collaboration with partners across countries such as Germany, Spain, Poland and Austria (among others with BIS, Outreach was presented.

The two projects are inscribed in the larger scope of the Work of the BGZ aiming at contributing to counter polarization and disinformation while strengthening societal resilience of both young people and all actors active in the social space. The importance of creative methods and artistic practices in empowering disadvantaged youth and integrating them into society was in particular highlighted by contributions of the colleagues of Outreach.

Additionally, reviewed the recommendations for the politics proposed by both projects tacled how to leverage and promote our shared values and further expand effective methods and knowledge transfer at the local and European level. The initiatives presented serve as inspiration for all organisations active in the field of youth education and training to actively contribute to youth empowerment and activation to shape democratic societies.

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Erasmus+ Days at Access & YourSpace Projects

Let’s celebrate youth and European values together! In the framework of the Erasmus+ Days, BGZ, together with Outreach, invites you to join a practitioners’ exchange and digital hands-on working session to discuss and explore tools and methods developed in the Erasmus+ projects Access and YourSpace .
Join us in celebrating Europe and Erasmus+, and share your experiences with fellow colleagues and partners.
We look forwards to an inspiring exchange!
Access & YourSpace Team

INVITACIÓN JORNADA ERASMUS DAYS FUNDACIÓN MUSOL. ¡UNIDOS PARA CELEBRAR NUESTROS VALORES EUROPEOS COMUNES!

Desde la Fundación MUSOL, nos gustaría extenderles la invitación para la jornada #Erasmusdays, que se celebrará el 18 de octubre de 9:00 a 14:30 horas en la Biblioteca Municipal de Rafelbunyol.
Los #ErasmusDays son una celebración internacional de seis días del programa Erasmus+. Durante estos días, se invita a personas de todo el mundo a reunirse y organizar o participar en eventos que celebran los proyectos y oportunidades propuestos por Erasmus+. Para estudiantes, profesores, formadores, profesionales y, en general, todos los ciudadanos, los #ErasmusDays representan un momento único para promover la multitud de beneficios que se derivan del programa. En 2024, la octava edición de los #ErasmusDays tendrá lugar del 14 al 19 de octubre.
El Ayuntamiento de Rafelbunyol y la Fundación MUSOL se unen a esta celebración con una jornada integradora, en la que exploraremos en profundidad algunos proyectos financiados, analizaremos los resultados alcanzados, los retos enfrentados, y pondremos en práctica dinámicas y metodologías inspiradas en dichos proyectos.

AGENDA

Fecha: 18 de octubre de 2024, de 09:00 a 14:30h
Lugar: 2º piso. Biblioteca de Rafelbunyol. Calle Josep Maria Llopis, 4, 46138 Rafelbunyol, Valencia
09:00 – Recepción
09:30 – Bienvenida
10:00-10:30 – Lab educación. Oportunidades Erasmus en el ámbito de la educación escolar
10:30-11:00 – Lab juventud. Oportunidades Erasmus en el ámbito de la juventud
11:00-11:45 – Ejemplos prácticos. Proyectos de la Fundación MUSOL
11:45 – Pausa para el café
12:15 – Talleres #ErasmusDays
14:30 – Cierre de la jornada

Por motivos de organización, las plazas son limitadas, por lo que se ruega confirmación y registro.
La jornada está dirigida a centros educativos, personal técnico de juventud, y personas interesadas en el programa Erasmus Plus.
El formulario de registro es el siguiente: Formular
Muchas gracias y nos vemos pronto.

Highlights from the ACCESS multiplier event in Valencia.

On Wednesday, May 29, the multiplier event of our project “Your Space” took place. The project aims to strengthen the participation of young people in precarious situations through artistic and cultural activities, with a particular focus on social space.

The results of three studies conducted in Buryassot, Berlin and Warsaw were presented. In addition, a dynamic debate was organized with experts in cultural and artistic education and social work with vulnerable groups. The participatory dynamics of the World Café also created a space for dialog.

Here you can find some impressions of the event.

MULTIPLIER EVENT ON MAY 29 IN VALENCIA

Dear members of the network,

We would like to invite you to the multiplier event of the “Your Space” project, which will take place on Wednesday, May 29, from 09:30 to 14:00 at the premises of the Federación Valenciana de Municipios y Provincias.

The project is aimed at young people from the 613 Viviendas neighborhood in Burjassot and has been implemented in collaboration with the technicians of the “Barris Inclusius” program and the PAC of the Centro Díaz Pintado. The aim of this project is to strengthen the participation of young people in precarious situations through a socio-spatial approach, using artistic and cultural activities such as the production of a participatory video.

In addition to the presentation of the preliminary results and the developed tools that can be used by youth workers, educators and other relevant actors, an expert panel as well as a participatory world café dynamic will also be organized to foster dialogue on the integration of digital tools and artistic methods in social intervention, especially with regard to disadvantaged groups.

To confirm your participation, please complete this short registration form here.

For more information on the development of the project, we invite you to visit our Linkedin page.

You can also contact us by email: info@musol.org

We look forward to your participation and engagement.

Multiplier Event on April 19th in Berlin - Save The Date!

Facilitating access and participation of young people through art and creativity are fundamental to foster inclusion in social and professional life, and are also important for inclusion. Today more than ever is crucial to offer inclusive leisure activities for young people.

Outreach, an organization offering mobile and social space-oriented youth work enables young people to participate in society through artistic and cultural programs.

Methods and practical toolkits for youth work will be presented. Together with cultural contributions. Join us on Friday the 19th of April in the House of Music in Berlin!

Take a look at our Poster here

Multiplier Event on April 11th in Warsaw

We are going one step further and would like to invite you to the Multiplier event – art and culture as a way of increasing social integration of young people.
On 11 April 2024, a multiplier event will take place at the House of Culture in Rembertów. The main objective is to share experience, present the developed methods and educational tools dedicated to young people at risk of social maladjustment or social exclusion.
Not only will we present the results of the young participants’ work, but we will also hold workshops to acquire new working tools. Take a look at our poster here

Here a video summarising the “Your Space” project, in which you will see how to work with this method.

CEO & MOW INVITE FOR A VERNISSAGE (June 2023)

“Get to know us as we got to know ourselves”.

This was the motto of the invitation to the vernissage where the BGZ project Your Space was presented by the partners CEO and the Youth Education Centre No. 2 in Warsaw. The vernissage took place on 6 June in Dom Kultury Rembertów.

The “Your Space” project enables young people to become more involved in their social space. Cultural and educational institutions from Berlin, Warsaw and Valencia will jointly carry out activities to promote the participants’ artistic expression. This will not only strengthen their sense of important values, but also help them develop a better understanding of diversity and social cohesion.

The young girls – graduates of the youth centre – have dealt with themselves, their relationships, feelings, difficulties and dreams. The result is a frank, moving film and a unique exhibition that invite them to explore their perspective.

For information you can visit the webpage of our partners here.

SAMPLE MUSIC FESTIVAL - OUTREACH EDITION (29 & 30 July 2023)

As part of the Erasmus+ project “Your Space”, our project partner Outreach is organising an edutainment event for music-loving young people from the Berlin-wide Outreach network from 29 to 30 July 2023.

At the Sample Music Festival, young talents will have the opportunity to gather skills, knowledge and inspiration, take part in workshops, network and demonstrate their skills on stage.

With this project, we want to initiate a joint and district-wide format that offers aspiring young talents an attractive platform for expression and opportunities to develop musically.

Premiere of the participatory video (June 2023)

Fundación MUSOL is thrilled to announce that on 16th June, the long-awaited premiere of the participatory video took place. This event marked the culmination of six months of dedicated effort and collaboration with the NGO Integra2 Mundo, students and educators of the PAC (Shared Classroom Program) at the Díaz Labour Insertion Day Care Center.

The premiere of the participatory video produced in the framework of the project YourSpace culminated with the graduation of the PAC students and represented a great occasion to showcase the journey undertaken together, strating with the mapping of the district and the identification of challenges faced by the youth in their living environments. From there, the young people successfully progressed together: from an initial attempt to film and photograph, to the creation of local narratives emerged from everyday challenges and difficulties experience in their district “613 Viviendas.” The participatory offer culminated with the production of a video presented tot he public in a premiere.

The event was attended by the charachters represented in the video, and by everyone who contributed to it, including educators, staff members from the Diaz Pintado Center, friends and families. Ezequiel enriched the artistic dimension of the event with a performance with the “cajón flamenco”. The event was concluded by an open mic activity offering a stage for creativity to the local youth and enabling them to access a diverse and broad audience.

The “Your Space” project offered for the opportunity to bring art and creativity to the young people of the district of 613 Viviendas, boosted their sense of belonging to their communities and empowered them to unlock through art and culture their potentials and develop competences to counter difficulties and challenges.”

Public event in Warsaw in June 2023

On June 6, 2023 “Your Space – Art and culture as door opener for enhanced social inclusion of disadvantaged young people” was held at the Rembertów Community Center in Warsaw. In cooperation between the Center for Civic Education Foundation and the Youth Education Center No. 2, five participants successfully completed the project and presented their achievements. The audience saw a film, which was created for months at the MOW, telling about the « Your Space » of the individual participants and about their dreams, plans and upcoming actions. An additional component of the event was an exhibition of the girls’ artistic works, along with a selection of recorded videos documenting the stages of participation in the project.

To get a few impressions of it, please click here Space_MULTIPLIER EVENT in Warsaw_POSTER.png

PROJECT KICK-OFF (July 2022)

The kick-off served to discuss the organisational and financial aspects of the project and took place online. After the welcome and a short introduction by BGZ, budget and financing were discussed. Afterwards, all partners introduced themselves and described their fields of activity. BGZ presented a project management plan and additionally explained the communication guidelines in the project.

TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING VALENCIA (September 2022)

The meeting took place in Burjassot, Valencia.

The project meeting was planned in such a way that on the first day there was an overlap with the BGZ project Access, which also pursues similar goals in the area of youth as the Your Space project. This allowed the project partners to learn from the already advanced Access project and gain valuable insights.

During the meeting, the partnerships formulated first ideas for actions with topics that are both relevant to the local situation and have a high transferability potential.

  • Warsaw: Sound and visual arts in the digital age. With photo and video artists, the young people test how they can define themes that are important to them, formulate a message, translate it into a presentation and show it in the district.
  • Valencia: Multidisciplinary art installations as an expression of the cultural richness of the place. Theatre meets computer games, musical tradition meets modern urban dance. Young people use art as an experiment to find out where they feel comfortable, where and how they can get involved in the neighbourhood.
  • Berlin: Urban art (graffiti, sculpture, photography). Artists and young people “survey” their neighbourhood, develop scenarios to project their artistic ideas onto the place and become active in planning.
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