Big Time Take Over
Creative empowerment for Europe's disadvantaged youth
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Big Time Take Over
Creative empowerment for Europe's disadvantaged youth
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BIGTIME TAKEOVER is an Erasmus+ project aimed at empowering young people to use their creativity and the potential of technology in positive ways that give them a voice in issues that affect their lives. It is based on applying the concept of a digital site “takeover” – where the users of a communications site monopolise that site to curate and promote their own message and creative content.

It will use the Takeover model as a basis for engaging young people in devising their own Creative Action Projects – ie: projects that deploy and develop imaginative creative skills to create positive social change and to benefit the wider community.

BIGTIME TAKEOVER is an Erasmus+ project aimed at empowering young people to use their creativity and the potential of technology in positive ways that give them a voice in issues that affect their lives. It is based on applying the concept of a digital site “takeover” – where the users of a communications site monopolise that site to curate and promote their own message and creative content.

It will use the Takeover model as a basis for engaging young people in devising their own Creative Action Projects – ie: projects that deploy and develop imaginative creative skills to create positive social change and to benefit the wider community.

Project Results

100 Young people participate directly in local Creative Action Projects
36 young people participate in BigTime Takeover
12 young people and 6 youth arts mentors attend 5 day transnational blended mobility event
5,000 visitors use the digital communication tools, platforms and social media
150 attenders at 6 Multiplier Events in 5 partner countries
10 Youth Arts Mentors will achieve accreditation
At least 60 % of young people participating will be female, addressing gender disparity

In the context of high levels of youth unemployment and predicted to rise dramatically in the wake of the COVID-19 virus, such projects, enabled and facilitated by professional Youth Arts Educators, offer young people a route to develop creative solutions to issues that affect their lives, engage productively with stakeholders in their communities, develop active citizenship and deepen political, social and civic participation.

The combined results will create a package of digitally accessible learning resources, which can be used in formal and non-formal youth arts and education settings and will be widely disseminated through social media, supporting young people to find their creative voice, make new connections and collaborate with different stakeholders across national boundaries to make a difference to issues that affect their lives.

In the context of high levels of youth unemployment and predicted to rise dramatically in the wake of the COVID-19 virus, such projects, enabled and facilitated by professional Youth Arts Educators, offer young people a route to develop creative solutions to issues that affect their lives, engage productively with stakeholders in their communities, develop active citizenship and deepen political, social and civic participation.

The combined results will create a package of digitally accessible learning resources, which can be used in formal and non-formal youth arts and education settings and will be widely disseminated through social media, supporting young people to find their creative voice, make new connections and collaborate with different stakeholders across national boundaries to make a difference to issues that affect their lives.

Project Toolkits

Youth Arts Eductors Toolkit in English

TO DEVISE YOUR CREATIVE ACTION PROJECT

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Youth Arts Eductors Toolkit Greek

TO DEVISE YOUR CREATIVE ACTION PROJECT

DOWNLOAD THIS TOOLKIT IN GREEK

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Youth Arts Eductors Toolkit IN italian

TO DEVISE YOUR CREATIVE ACTION PROJECT

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Youth Arts Eductors Toolkit IN Macedonian

TO DEVISE YOUR CREATIVE ACTION PROJECT

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Youth Arts Eductors Toolkit in Polish

TO DEVISE YOUR CREATIVE ACTION PROJECT

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Partnership

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