Youth Bridges Budapest

Visualising European Goals (through) Arts

V.E.G.A. - Visualising European Goals through Arts project aims at overcoming lack of information among European youth, and uses modern visual arts to reach its objective. Non formal education, especially by using artistic tools, has been largely proven as one of the most effective ways to communicate and create competences, especially among youth. For this reason, V.E.G.A. project aims at using comics, graffiti, graphic art, video art, and photography to raise awareness on the importance of being conscious of the European Youth Goals and their effects on the target group's daily life. This project will allow young people from Portugal, Italy, Spain, Hungary, and Germany to experience a fruitful exchange of ideas and practices on the E.Y.G. through art. It will provide participants with opportunities to cross national borders to discuss and learn more about the European Youth Goals and their application, thanks to the involvement of specialists in EU initiatives and youth policies that will share their experience with young participants and youth workers.

Moreover, professionals and experts will be involved in the artistic process, training participants on the use of the five visual arts and teaching them how to best convey information through this media. Lastly, in order to let youngsters create artistic pieces in the best possible way, optimal instruments and tools will be needed, in order to guarantee full accessibility to everyone interested in the project, regardless of their economic possibilities.

Objectives

Identify civic engagement issues at the European level and compare information in four different countries from a double perspective: youth workers and young people.
Raise awareness among 40 young people with fewer opportunities on civic engagement issues, especially volunteering, by training them on interculturality and solidarity, in order to encourage them to engage in civic projects.
Engage 20 young people with fewer opportunities in a mobility program around civic engagement and solidarity.
Inform 100 youth workers and young people on civic engagement opportunities that exist at local and European level.
Make the project’s results visible to 35K people, mainly young people, youth workers and youth associations by promoting and disseminating its activities.

Activities

2 transnational meetings (in Italy and in Portugal)
1 International Training for youth and youth workers on the European Youth Goals (in Hungary)
Exchange of knowledge among young peers about E.Y.G. (in all 5 countries)
Local workshops about visual arts (comics, graffiti, photography, graphic art and video art)
Creation of at least 5 artworks (one per country)
5 local exhibitions for the artworks (one per country)
1 virtual exhibition on the project’s website
Local multiplier events in Italy, Spain, Germany and Hungary
An International multiplier event in Portugal