The kick-off meeting of the “Insertion des jeunes défavorisés par l’art [Inclusion of marginalized youngsters through art]” (INSART) project was held on 8-10 January 2014 in Paris, France. The project, involving a Consortium of 5 organizations, will aim at giving better employment chances to young marginalized or migrant people aged 16/25 (the so called “NEET” group: not in education, not in employment, nor in training”).
As youth unemployment progressively increases across the EU, social exclusion and marginalization are causing deleterious consequences on youngsters: lack of confidence and motivation, despair and economic complications. The INSART project will tackle these issues using an innovative methodology that merges artistic pedagogy and intercultural psychology.
After an initial state-of-the-art survey and research on the inclusion of marginalized or migrant youngsters, pilot sessions consisting in an artistic process will take place in each participating country and will involve 10 to 20 youngsters. Such sessions will enable participants to use artistic techniques (drawing, dance, music, videos) to get in touch with their personalities, inclinations and desires. The artistic results of these pilot sessions will then be exhibited at the final conference in Berlin.
The project also foresees to pass on this creative inclusion methodology to adult trainers, educators and employment professionals, which will benefit from training and a manual on youth inclusion through art.
Through INSART, project partners believe that marginalized youngsters will receive the necessary tools and training that will enable them to empower them in a new and yet more efficient manner, revealing the powerful role art has in all situations and for all kinds of recipients.
CESIE will actively support the project in its research as well as pilot and training sessions. Moreover, CESIE will lead the dissemination and communication aspects of the project, delivering news via different channels on the project’s developments and results.
The project is co-financed with support of the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Grundtvig Programme . For further information on the project, please write to partnership@cesie.org.
Project partners:
- Elan Interculturel (France) – Project Coordinators
- Les Ateliers d’Art Contemporain (Belgium)
- Merseyside Expanding Horizons (United Kingdom)
- Berlink ETN GmbH (Germany)
- CESIE (Italy)
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
