Building Better: Online Action for Youth and the Creative and Cultural Sectors

The Building Better is an Erasmus+ project that includes youth organizations, organizations active in the field of arts and culture, training institutions, and local authorities in Germany, Cyprus, Italy, and Greece.

Its main aim is to reinforce cross-sectoral cooperation with a focus on creativity and cultural awareness and social participation of youth and support youth workers, artists, and policymakers to find creative and innovative solutions to the new challenges that the pandemic has brought and improve the quality of support systems for youth on a local, national and European level.

Target Groups

TG1: Youth workers, youth leaders, facilitators, policymakers, municipal youth workers

TG2: Young people aged 18-30

TG3: CCSs actors, local artists, etc.

Objectives

The project aims to:

  • establish networks and new collaboration models between youth workers, local policymakers, and CCS’s actors, stimulating intercultural engagement and participation of young people and the flourishing of their creativity through Portal of Cooperation.
  • foster creativity, culture, and multiculturalism through the Building Better Webinars which will include learning tools, resources, and materials
  • accelerate the digital transformation of youth work and local municipalities and increase the digital means used to adapt to the way creative products, cultural goods, events are created, managed, and disseminated.

Results and activities:

  • Building Better Webinars
  • Building Better Online Portal of Cooperation

The project partnership consists of organisations from four European countries: Cyprus (EUROSC & Cyprus Academy of Local Government), Germany (JKPeV), Greece (Anelixis & i-participate), Italy (Sharing Europe).

Duration: 01/06/2021- 30/05/2023

For more information please visit the project website: building-better.eu