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PhotoVoice - Participation & Empowerment in Youth Work (VOICE) (2021-2023)

Action: Erasmus+ KA227 – Strategic Partnerships for Creativity

Project coordinator: YES Forum

Summary

Summary

Context

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, our lives and the way we perceive social interactions have changed drastically. Youth organisations have had to reinvent themselves, find new ways of working and interacting to ensure that those in the most vulnerable situations would still be supported. These adaptations call for innovative and creative practices. That is why with the VOICE project, we want to engage youth organisations, formal education institutions as well as creative actors to work together towards professional youth work in Europe.

Methodology

The VOICE focuses on using the innovative and creative approach of Photovoice to empower youth workers, future youth workers and young people around Europe. It builds on our successful implemented project YourEP and its follow up Europe3E, which we want to adapt to the international youth work context. Photovoice (and abbreviation of “Photos Voicing Our Individual and Collective Experience”) is an innovative creativity-boosting method used to share personal stories supported by photos. It aims to enable people to record and reflect their community's strengths and concerns, promote critical dialogue and knowledge about important issues through large and small group discussion of photographs, and to reach policy makers.

Objectives

By bringing together future and current youth workers, young people and creative organisations (eg. photographers and graphic designers), the VOICE project aims at promoting the method of Photovoice in youth work, to make it more recognized as a creative tool that future and current youth workers can use to promote social inclusion, engagement and active citizenship of young people.

Results

VOICE is expected to have a positive and long-lasting impact, by equipping social and youth work students, as well as youth workers with new creative methods to work with young people. The expected direct impacts of the Intellectual Outputs described above are an increase of the quality of youth work using innovative and creative approaches, and the training of future youth workers to get familiar with Erasmus+ and international youth work. Additional positive outcomes will be to foster a creative dialogue with young people, enable them to voice their ideas and develop entrepreneurship and creative skills.

News

12/072022

VOICE - Mission accomplished

The second training on the Photovoice method was held in Vienna between the 4th and 6th of July

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08/062022

VOICE - Learning Photovoice by doing it

Youth and social work students and young workers from all over Europe met in Viareggio to learn about the participatory research method

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11/022022

VOICE – Going forward!

Partners met online to plan further steps on the 1st and 2nd of February

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01/072021

VOICE – Project Kickstart!

To kickstart YES Forum's new VOICE project, partners met online to plan ahead on the 29th and 30th of June.

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