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3.4. Youth culture and creative forms of expression
The aim is to strengthen children and young people in their everyday culture and to encourage
them, in the context of non-formal education processes, to express and realize their interests
and needs in their examination of society.
Principles and Contents
- Children and young people are questioned about their preferred forms of creative
expression (music, theatre, …). The results are taken into consideration in the
development of the offers
- Specific focus areas of society, which children and young people are concerned with and
interested in, are referred to in the creation of the offers
- The intermediary and accompanying offers in the field of action of youth culture and
their creative forms of expression are adapted to the needs of children and young
people. A process will be established, which allows to early detect dynamic developments
of relevant topics of children and young people as well as preferred forms of creative
expression and consequently to considerate these results in the development of offers
- Methods will be examined, tested and developed further in order to better circulate
information and offers and thus to reduce entry barriers for so far underrepresented
groups of children and young people. In this process, current and national results and
examples will be used
Target groups
- Young people, independent of their level of education, social environment, regional origin
etc.
Regionality
- In order to open up new regions and reach new target groups, a stronger focus is put on
Styrian regions where there is still a lack of offers in the fields of youth culture and
creative forms of expression
Quality and criteria for eligibility
- Besides the generally applied eligibility criteria in the context of the law for youth
promotion, the field of action-specific quality requirements for youth culture and creative
forms of expression are valid
- To enhance the quality and the accuracy of fit of the offers, a simple but effective
reporting system will be established
Cooperation and networking
- Appropriate access to new centers and institutions for children and young people will be
granted
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This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co -financed by the ERDF