Youth Arts For Social Change

The project is looking for 3 partners, preferably educational institutions, art schools and art clubs associated with schools based in rural or remote areas.

Youth across the world, especially in the European Union, are encouraged and have the right to take part as active citizens in creating communities they belong to, locally and in society at large. However young people are often referred and seen as “citizens in the making”, “future leaders” and are never fully integrated and actively engaged in understanding, raising awareness or solving socially relevant issues of their own local communities.
Additionally, young people with fewer opportunities, specifically from migrant and refugee backgrounds and/or rural areas often experience further barriers that prevent their participation and contribution in raising awareness and understanding of local community issues.
Currently, mainstream rural academic educational institutions across Latvia and the rest of Europe lack understanding of locally socially relevant issues and are not encouraging youth to understand or contribute in solving or raising awareness of the issues faced by their own communities.