About THE PROJECT

CREATIVE RESILIENCES

This project is meant to strengthen the sense of belonging and promote European values by bringing Europe closer to its islander borders.

Giving young people the keys to inventing the future, while making them aware of their creative potential, their critical thinking, their entrepreneurial spirit and their strength of resilience.

We want participants to be able, with each of these experiences, to gain new perspectives and skills that will change their lives in significant ways — and influence our future model of society.

MISSIONS

OUR OBJECTIVES

— To empower youth towards the environnemental and sanitary crisis, linked to the European Union ,Green Deal' and the Covid19 crisis consequences on young people.
— To question our model of society, our methods of transportation, and find new ways to produce international pedagogical projects.
— To find new solutions to promote local attractiveness, european values and international cooperation.

WHAT WE WANT

— To cooperate, exchange expertises and good practices, teach/learn new skills coming from different economic fields and cultural spaces.
— To plan transnational and local actions such as international youth exchanges, cultural and pedagogical ateliers for the local youth, artistic residencies and outdoor activities.
— To plan digital actions: multimedia content, online trainings, live-streamed events, virtual tours, and other participative and immersive tools.

YOUTH empowering

— personal skills (autonomy, critical thinking, courage, creativity)
— arts/crafts (sailing, painting, dance, music, theatre)

COMMUNITY resilience

— social  skills (teamwork, leadership, multiculturalism, communication)
— european values, citizenship & identity across extreme frontiers

natural/cultural HERITAGE

— natural (ecology, botanic, farming, sustainability, recycling)
— cultural (european issues, languages, traditions, architecture)

DIGITAL INNOVATION

— education (pedagogical content, online training, virtual tours)
— communication (multimedia content strategy)

WHO WE ARE

1

KOPLA BUNZ LUXEMBOURG

a platform for all kinds of free-rolling interdisciplinary approaches to develops educational projects and artistic performances for young audiences.

2

SAGA MOVEMENT ICELAND

a local initiative in an ecological farm which uses the powers of creativity to build the resilience of rural communities, connecting people to others and to their environment.

3

OPEI CYPRUS

an educational & extrovert NGO providing assistance to disadvantaged social groups in order to enable local communities to overcome socio-economic disparities.

4

a polar expedition sailboat at the service of arctic dreams, welcoming on board scientists, educators, artists, to raise awareness on climate change

ATKA POLAR SHIP

5

a traditional wooden vessel and training ship dedicated to promoting life skills by organising adventure sailing trips to people of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds.

ATYLA TRAINING SHIP

28

YOUTH EXCHANGE PARTICIPATIONS

(17 - 29 years)

~210

EDUCATORS
INVOLVED

~3500

LOCAL YOUTH PARTICIPATIONS

(4 months - 18 years)

IMPACT

Allow young people who are geographically and culturally distant to meet, from the heart of Europe to its southern and northern island borders.

Give new input to the definition of innovative and structuring teaching methods in favor of children and young people.

Allow the collaboration of youth workers to share expertise and good practices, while supporting international cooperative dynamics.

Promote the educational work of various sectors (art & culture, agriculture, navigation, social & hard sciences).

Open up the populations of small continental or island territories, while promoting their cultural influence internationally.

In reducing international travel and respecting barrier gestures, it is also a question of establishing a balance between physical or digital participation, in relation to environmental issues and the health situation.

Propose a real digital content strategy, created together with the participants, in order to DEVELOP a new model for youth exchanges, AS part of the digital and ecological transition.

ERASMUS+

Our project is supported by the European Commission for Culture & Education through the Erasmus+ programme for small-scale partnerships.