Creativity And Reuse for Empowerment
- Adela Vitkovska
- Nov 6, 2025
- 5 min read
Start date 01-02-2015–End date 31-01-2016
EU Grant
27.466,00 €–Programme
Erasmus+
Key Action:
Learning Mobility of Individuals
Action Type:
Youth mobility
Countries covered–14
Coordinator
CENTRO PER LO SVILUPPO CREATIVO DANILO DOLCI
VIA ROMA 94
90133 PALERMO
Sicilia
🇮🇹 Italy
Coordinator Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +39 091 617 7252
Summary
The “Creativity And Reuse for Empowerment - CARE” Training Course has been implemented in the period of 9th-16th of May 2015. This 8-day TC brought together 30 participants – youth workers, youth advisors, project leaders, social artists working with young people – from 14 EU Countries – Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Greece, Slovenia, Latvia, Romania, Belgium, France, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Cyprus and Italy. The training has been managed by 4 trainers in collaboration with 2 support staff.
The CARE’s idea has been developed on the basis of the concept of sustainable development as one of the key priorities of the EU. In the framework of the 2015 European Year of Development the sustainable development shall be based on 3 key dimensions, i.e. economic, social and environmental, and be built via bottom-up approaches involving population by promoting participation and active citizenship. However, taking into account a staggering statistics, those aims are far from being achieved. Even if EU 2020 Strategy fixes 20 million people out of social exclusion as a headline target, today more than 24% of the EU populace is at the risk of poverty and/or social exclusion. This situation seriously affects young people. To counterfeit this reality, the EU Youth Strategy points out the need for young people to develop as autonomous citizens, able to live independently, engage into civil society putting an emphasis on participation, non-formal and informal learning. In this vein, sustainability, creativity and inclusion are the key concept towards promotion of sustainable process.
Backed up by those data, the objectives have been defined as follows:
• to provide youth workers with new tools and skills to promote social inclusion in local communities;
• to promote creativity as problem-solving approach and as tool to turn problems into opportunities, stimulating empowerment process;
• to provide participants with practical skills in creative reuse and recycling as artistic educational activity to reach and involve young people;
• to increase awareness about environmental issues and sustainable development;
• to learn and exchange good practices on project’s topics especially focusing on the reuse of abandoned spaces and on the development of urban social inclusion projects;
• to enhance participants understanding of the role that youth work can have to bring positive social change in the society.
The activities have been based on the non-formal and informal education techniques. Those included:
• ice-breaking and group-building activities and daily energisers[creative awakening]
• sharing of participants’ expectations, motivations and concerns[“Extreme challenge interview]
• Presentation of the organisations [Organisations’ Bazaar]
• Introduction to TC key concepts and participants’ awareness [“Why do we CARE” and “Test your current CARE performance” sessions]
• Non-formal activities and workshops focusing on new approaches to include excluded [“Make the “corner” on the stage” and “Creativity as a tool for inclusion and problem solving: RMA workshop”)
• Visits to local associations and places relevant for TC objectives [“Regain city’s space, regain excluded youth!”]
• Workshops on creative reuse [“Don’t call it waste”]
• Development of CARE strategy for follow-up actions in home cities [Build you CARE Strategy]
• Creation of new projects, Youthpass and Youth portfolio for youth workers
• Intercultural evenings open to local communities
After implementation of the afore-mentioned activities, the following results have been achieved:
• Tools and skills provided to promote social inclusion in local communities;
• Practical skills in creative reuse and recycling as an artistic educational activity delivered;
• Good practices on the CARE’s themes exchanged and the partnership established via “Public Group CARE” at the platform: http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/care/
• CARE Digital Brochure of the artistic recycled objects developed by the participants during the “Don’t call it w aste!” creative workshops: http://danilodolci.org/media/care-digital-brochure-web.pdf
• Public Report, summarizing the results & the best practices shared: http://danilodolci.org/media/CARE-public-report.pdf
Thereof, the participants’ professional and personal development triggered by the CARE TC gives a rise for their capacity to act as multi-players in the local communities. In this way impact on participants is to be simultaneously transmitted onto the level of partner organisations, as well as local, regional and European dimensions. The knowledge/skills/competences acquired by the participants are to be accommodated into their daily youth work vis-à-vis social inclusion, community development and environmental sustainability. Thus, the idea of long-term benefits of the project has been at the heart while delivering sessions and workshops to the participants in the form of ready-to-use methods for their youth and/or volunteer-based work
Partners
ARS FOR PROGRESS OF PEOPLE 🇧🇪 Belgium
RUE POTAGERE 73
1210 BRUXELLES
🇧🇪 Belgium
Partner Type: Other
Phone: +3223503335
ASOCIACION INICIATIVA INTERNACIONAL JOVEN 🇪🇸 Spain
CALLE ARISTOFANES 4 1 1
29010 MALAGA
Andalucía
🇪🇸 Spain
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +34952391926
Biedriba Eurofortis 🇱🇻 Latvia
Anninmuizas bulvaris 38-37
LV-1067 Riga
🇱🇻 Latvia
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +37127763451
Civic Values Foundation 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
jk. Buxton bl.31A, fl.12, ap.49
1618 Sofia
София (столица) (Sofia (stolitsa))
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Partner Type: Other
Phone: +359898241441
Drustvo arhitekata Varazdin 🇭🇷 Croatia
Ulica hrvatskih branitelja 1
42000 Varaždin
Varaždinska županija
🇭🇷 Croatia
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +38598818174
EDEX - EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE CORPORATION LIMITED 🇨🇾 Cyprus
MAKEDONITISAS AVENUE 46
1700 NICOSIA
Κύπρος (Kýpros)
🇨🇾 Cyprus
Partner Type: Other
Phone: +35722841656
EUROCIRCLE 🇫🇷 France
RUE DU COQ 47
13001 MARSEILLE
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
🇫🇷 France
Partner Type: Non-governm
FUNDACJA INSTYTUT ROZWOJU REGIONALNEGO 🇵🇱 Poland
ULICA JOZEFA WYBICKIEGO 3 A
31-261 KRAKOW
🇵🇱 Poland
Partner Type: Other
Phone: +48126298514
FUNDATIA PROFESSIONAL 🇷🇴 Romania
STRADA CAMPULUI 13
547530 SINGEORGIU DE MURES
Centru
🇷🇴 Romania
Partner Type: Other
Phone: +40265251180
INTER ALIA 🇬🇷 Greece
38-40 THRASYVOULOU STR
15234 ATHINA
Aττική (Attiki)
🇬🇷 Greece
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +302104116792
Loesje Sverige 🇸🇪 Sweden
Krällinggränd 39
16362 Spånga
Stockholms län
🇸🇪 Sweden
Partner Type: Other
Phone: +46737299457
Pr'Animação-Associação de Animação Cultural 🇵🇹 Portugal
Largo da Boavista, 2-1º Esq
7300-090 Portalegre
Alentejo
🇵🇹 Portugal
Partner Type: Other
Phone: +351927317679 Sdruzhenie Asotsiatsiya Senator 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
61 blvd Vitosha
1000 Sofia
София (Sofia)
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Partner Type: Other
Phone: +359877783245 Youthnet Hellas 🇬🇷 Greece
P.O Box 9325
10032 Athens
Aττική (Attiki)
🇬🇷 Greece
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +306977348481
Zavod NEFIKS Institut za promocijo in belezenje neformalno pridobljenega znanja 🇸🇮 Slovenia
Ob dolenjski železnici 12
1000 Ljubljana
Osrednjeslovenska
🇸🇮 Slovenia
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +38640698915
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