To cope better with the COVID-19 pandemic, PERFORM YOURSELF project focus on helping Young People with Training and Job searching in ​​the fields of Arts and Creativity. During the PERFORM YOURSELF project, Young People will learn about Non-Formal Education and Employability in the fields of Arts and Creativity. Local Young people of Salzburg, Austria, will participate OFFLINE, during a Learning, Teaching, Training Activity in Mark, Salzburg among other Europea Young People. For that, Educators and Youth Workers will make an ONLINE TOOLBOX to be tested OFFLINE during the LTT Activity. The TOOLBOX will help Youth with Training, Job searching and Job Creation in the fields of Arts and Creativity. PERFORM YOURSELF ONLINE: A TOOLBOX to help young people showing possibilities of Non-formal education; To inform about professions related to Art and Creativity; To explore practices in Non-Formal Learning, Creativity, and Education through Art; To use new & innovative web tools. The Online Tool will be created before the mobilities to help with the Tool-Box that will assemble during the Mobilities. This process will also help the participants to get familiar with online tools. After it will remain accessible to everyone and the final work will be uploaded to SALTO-Youth. The Participating Organizations MARK, Austria ANEVE, Portugal FATTORE K, ITALIA and LIDI SMART SOLUTIONS will fill the toolbox, which will be available online with different approaches and methods which are then presented and tried in the LTTA offline.PERFORM YOURSELF OFFLINE is an LTTA to experiment and evaluate the online TOOLBOX with the Good Practices in Youth Work using Art and Creativity. The TOOLBOX is to Empower the Youth Workers; To Encourage and improve the dimensions of Non-formal Learning, Creativity and Art and to support youth workers facilitating and teaching new methods, more diversified, using Hi-Tec, adaptable and creative.The LTTA will last 5 days + 2 travel days; the Target Group are Participants with educational difficulties: For this, approximately 20 local young people are invited to the LTTA.In the LTTA, the following approaches will be tested and evaluated: sports and theatre, performance, zine making and web-education. The detailed schedule is in the attachment.The toolbox will help youth workers to work with NEET and/or Disconnected Youth. The methodology and different approaches used in the Toolbox will help NEET and Disconnected Youth:-to gain self-confidence and make themselves visible, -to be able to express themselves and their needs-to explore their talents, in the field of ARTS and CREATIVITY-to enable activities according to what they like and to what they can do; in contrast to what formal education -to enhance creativity and creative thinking-to empower them to make individual decisions based on their life plansONLINE goalsTo Create an ONLINE Toolbox to help Youth Workers with Training addressed to Job searching and Job Creation in the fields of Arts and Creativity.To help Youth with Training, in the fields of Arts and Creativity.To help Youth with Job searching and Job Creation in the fields of Arts and Creativity.To help Youth Workers with Training addressed to Job searching and Job Creation in the fields of Arts and Creativity.To help Youth to become computer-literate and able to use new technologies in order to participate in the society not only in times of lockdown but also in order to keep up with the rapid changing environment and its accompanying requirements as a result of the age of digitalizationOFFLINE goalsTo help Youth with Training, in the fields of Arts and Creativity.To help Youth with Job searching and Job Creation in the fields of Arts and Creativity.to acquire basic skills and knowledge in order to be more successful in today’s professional environmentThere will be 3 transnational project meetings and one LTTA in October:TPM1: MAY 2021: Kick-off meeting & Design of the PERFORM YOURSEF ONLINE platform (NL) - 1 DayTPM2: JULY 2021:MONITORING of the Design of the PERFORM YOURSEF ONLINE platform & preparation of LTTA PERFORM YOURSELF OFFLINE (PT), 1 dayLTTA: OCTOBER 2021: PERFORM YOURSELF OFFLINE (AT) - 5 daysTPM3: DECEMBER 2021: Evaluation & Reports (IT)- 1 day

"""Youth Transnational Hub for Artists and Innovators"" project is a platform for YOUTH CREATIVITY in the broad aspect of EDUCATION, ART AND CULTURE, to find its DIGITAL ANALOGUE through the digital era, in order NO IDEA OR YOUTH ACHIEVMENT TO BE LOST due to the current COVID-19 crisis. And more - not to lose a single young person in the new social order of alternating periods of activity and isolation, which come and go in an unpredictable long-term sequence and duration, and this poses a number of challenges in PLANNING, GOALING, DESIRE and DREAMS. The project will design creative products with open access for application and communication, suitable for use in non-formal education and self-education of young people, will create conditions for training in the external environment during transnational meetings, incl. remote, WILL BUILD NETWORKS for exchange of ideas, good practices related to the daily and current agenda of society, as well as the future of the Earth and humanity in the context of Youth Policies, which today provide key competencies and perceived responsibilities of future managerial, expert and political decisions holders. THE MAIN GOAL of the project is the opportunities for young people from small towns, countries and communities with different cultures to exchange ideas, discuss, propose, experiment, develop know-how and present their views through individual and group events on issues of extreme importance in every sphere of socio-economic life, social relations and communication through culture and art, both in the countries where they live and globally.Implementing the objectives of the ERASMUS + program, the project focuses young people's attention on the BENEFITS and PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION of the results of strategic partnerships between organizations from different countries to find the best way to include DIGITAL ONLINE TECHNOLOGIES in everyday life and will propose methods for their inclusion in the new agenda of the society WITHOUT VIOLATING THE BASIC HUMAN NEED FOR PROXIMITY, WARMTH AND EMOTIONALITY. Therefore, we believe that the themes of the project focus in the interests of young people and will provoke their activity, initiative and desire to be involved. Given the fact that the COVID-19 test is a kind of urgent call for action by all countries in a global partnership, YOUNG PEOPLE WILL GET THEIR FIRST SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY to the community and humanity with the activities they will carry out. In this sense, the SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES of the project are young people to:• increase their initiative, active citizenship and social inclusion through the arts by encouraging them to act at local, national and transnational levels;• gain more confidence in their own capabilities for real impact of processes that depend on the managerial and political will;• increase their knowledge of digital technologies and the use of digital tools to adapt the way creative products, goods and events are created, managed, distributed, made available and consumed;• improve their competencies and acquire key knowledge on the topics covered by the project, incl. their foreign language competencies;• increase their motivation to seek and apply tools and resources for learning, promoting creativity, culture and cultural diversity;• increase their motivation to develop talents and promote entrepreneurship in the field of their interests;• improve their ability to create and manage online information campaigns to multiply project results and maintain their sustainability;• increase their knowledge of cultural diversity by encouraging intercultural participation and the development of creative thinking.The project envisages three TRANSNATIONAL MEETINGS entitled ""Creators of our own world"", two of which are entitled: ""Composing life cleanly"" and ""Invent ourselves again in one brontobyte"" we will perform through the digital capabilities of the e-Twinning platform and one with physical presence of the participants and with a host country - the partner organization from Italy Fattore K, whose choice is not accidental, but related to the specific subject of activity and the most pronounced creative nature, representing theatre performance and theatre ensemble. The project envisages an EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN, entitled ""On the way forward"", divided into three modules from which only one implemented in Bulgaria, and the rest – through the eTwinning platform. They are conceptually constructed in the form of trainings and laboratories for non-standard solutions, entitled ""CLOSED FOR CREATION"". Thus, the project composes harmonious actions between different organizations to encourage people of today's and future generations to be innovators and creators of their world."

"Recently the internet and consumer culture have promoted unachievable standards for work, leisure, and personal life. As a result, we often feel inadequate, rejected, anxieted, inappropriate, or different from what is expected in public. In 2020 March Canadian researcher Karen Horsman has published an article which says that all people experience one or another form of rejection in their lives. The article mentions that young people will experience rejection in their personal relationships (divorce, betrayal), career path (did not succeed to enter to the desired club or school, college and university) or even due to certain individual characteristics - nationality, race, disability or sexual orientation.Often young people experience stress due to the difficulty of adapting to society because they have been rejected or underestimated. And this determines their individual level of independence, self-esteem and emotional intelligence. Not all young people find it easy to overcome life’s challenges, some need help understanding the processes and feelings they go through, how they go through them, and at the same time realizing that similar feelings are experienced by their peers, friends and even adults who also have been rejected by other. It is a well-developed level of emotional intelligence and the ability to recognize one’s feelings that makes it easier for individuals to survive the difficult and critical stages of life. Emotional intelligence is not a new thing. It used to be called human maturity, wisdom, or mental health. Emotional intelligence is a person's personal and interpersonal competencies, which help to ensure a person's emotional and spiritual resilience and allow to experience various feelings: joy, frustration, pain, sadness, loss, etc. In order to raise a person with high emotional intelligence, we need to cultivate four basic aspects of well-being: mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual. For a long time, the school focused only on the development of mental and physical abilities, a little less on the spiritual, and almost no attention was paid to emotional intelligence.Realizing that with the pandemic there is a need for more digital youth work with young people, we will run a social communication campaign for young people on a social network where they spend the most time and create the illusion of their real life. During the project, we will create an Instagram account, in which young people will be interacted on the topics of rejection, disapproval, denial and underestimation, which merge into one topic ""rejected"". In order to make this innovative tool effective, attractive, engaging and interesting for young people, together with our partners, the depersonalized stories of rejection will be used in the video clips, for which we will use young Lithuanian, Italian and Estonian artists. A total of 30 clips will be created that will convey different stories of rejection in a variety of artistic and creative expressions, thus showing young people that rejection is part of our lives, that rejection in some situations leads to others that are not necessarily negative. Finally, to encourage young people to get involved and share their rejection stories in artistic expression, we will invite 90 young people (30 from each project partner country) to create their rejection story on the trash-bin. From the collected works of art, 3 exhibitions (one in each project partner country) with rejection stories will be created, thus showing that rejection, denial, disapproval and underestimation are not moments of life that need to be “thrown in the trash”, it is part of us and we have to live together with it and which we can turn into an opportunity - in this case - an art exhibition."

"COVID19's socio-economic impact on the cultural and artistic sectors has been unprecedented, as social distancing measures meant that they could not remain open. In addition to the devastating financial consequences, the promotion of culture and the use of art as tools for cohesion and education almost disappeared staying only at the core family level. In this context, steps should be taken to initiate real change in the way we protect and develop our common cultural heritage from an early age.In today's conditions, digital approaches to culture that promote active citizenship and social inclusion related to people's participation in culture are gaining importance.""Our Cultures"" brings together 7 cross-sector institutions from 6 different culturally diverse countries ( UK, Spain ,Turkey ,Portugal ,Italy and Greece) including schools, cultural and civil society NGOs. Our project focuses on providing art-based learning, creating digital concrete content and making the created content easily accessible open source in order to live, sustain and promote our common cultural heritage.Our project aims to create learning tools, resources, materials and training modules in order to encourage creativity and multiculturalism.Our main goal is to create active learning opportunities in formal and non-formal education institutions, through the use of technology in arts and education.Our project's intellectual outputs are: O1; Virtual Culture Travel (Time and Space Travel) (Mobile application)02; Experiential Learning Activity Books (Primary / Secondary School)O3; Cultural Heritage Awareness Materials (Digital Arts)We will also organise:6 national multipliers1 international multiplier2 LTTsKEY OBJECTIVES:* To grow a sense of curiosity and tolerance among students and educators for living in a global and interconnected world with digital cultural data tools by placing our cultural heritage at the very centre of our lives,* To obtain concrete inputs that will increase the intercultural interaction between cultural, artistic and equational institutions in a sustainable way and carry our cultural heritage to the future,* For children and young people to discover and experience our common cultural heritage inside and outside the classroom; to enable them to develop and strengthen their different identities within an interactive, democratic, and multicultural conscious citizenship perspective,* To ensure that children and young people have direct experience with the original heritage phenomenon (Experiential learning), be actively involved in the process, gaining commitment to the idea of ​​protecting cultural heritage, interpreting cultural heritage and seeking their own meaningful context behind the facts,* To make our students realize the local / universal dimension of culture through digital tools and arts: Students will reveal their feelings, thoughts and perceptions freely and sincerely through artistic activities, they will offer creative products for our cultural heritage.Students will be able to transfer their creative abilities to every aspect of their lives with the different perspectives they have gained on our cultural heritage, and they will be able to beautify their environment by gaining an aesthetic consciousness.* Developing digital literacy, collaboration and critical thinking skills of our participants through digital data tool (Web 2.0 tools, augmented reality) studies:Our participants will be able to use these competencies they have acquired on different platforms.* To make an impressive presentation of the cultural structures and areas in the region where our partners live, using the augmented reality method and 3D design technique:This tool will have interactive content that students can easily use in lessons and outside the classroom.Our Virtual Culture Travel Tool will make a tangible contribution to cultural tourism by making the regions where partners live a center of attraction.TARGET GROUPSStudents (7-15 years old), teachers and other educators and professionals working in formal (e.g. schools) and informal (e.g. in the community) settings. Secondary target groups include policy makers, decision makers, the media and general public as well as parents and carers. AMBITIONDuring times of despair, using the underlying values of restorative justice (e.g. power sharing, equality, dignity and respect) ""Our Cultures"" will create a sense of belonging and awareness about the common cultural and artistic heritage of Europe.The necessity of discovering different cultures through intercultural interactions and of course the dimension of the culture extending from local to universal make the transnational implementation of the project important and necessary in order to gain European awareness."