The project uses a comprehensive strategy crafted from consultations with both a local audience and a body of youth work, inclusion and performing arts professionals from across the country and Norway.
The strategy is comprised of a multi-pronged approach with each factor being assigned a specific activity:
- 1 - Restoration Works are planned holistically with the end-user audience and with stringent environmental and preservation criteria.
- 2 - Youth Centre Operations respond to emerging needs of children and youth
- 3 - Youth Work and Social Field Work programme is modeled after real-world experience of the Partner 1
- 4 - Youth Work Development Plans are conceived using best available practices from across the region to benefit the least developed districts’ youth under leadership of Partner 2
- 5 - Art Mediating Citizen Engagement is based off Erasmus+ best practice projects by the Norwegian Acting for Climate using performance art to engage with solutions to climate change
- 6 - Promotion and Dissemination draws special focus to Applicant and all Partners to actively communicate using preferred media of the young people, and to reach to institutional and municipal stakeholders in wider regions to develop the audience of the new youth infrastructure.
Summary of bilateral results
The project greatly benefited from the donor project partner, particularly through intensive visits from the Norwegian partner. These visits introduced new methods of working with youth, especially in the areas of environmental education and artistic activities. The partner shared valuable insights into how Scandinavian municipalities collaborate with the nonprofit sector, helping us explore new ways to utilize the natural resources and environment around us. This inspired greater integration of environmental topics into youth work.
On the bilateral level, cooperation with Acting for Climate significantly enhanced services for children and youth in Jelšava. It contributed to breaking down prejudices toward foreigners and overcoming fears of the unknown and other cultures. This collaboration also supported the creation of the first community garden in Jelšava. The partner visited Jelšava and the microregion three times, delivering several theater and artistic performances for the general public and organizing activities with the local primary and nursery school, focusing on environmental themes.
Looking ahead, we plan to continue the bilateral cooperation to further build on these successes and strengthen the partnership.
Project details
Project info
Project grant
Grant financing
469144.00€
Final project cost
432701.00€