Youth4Culture Training Continues in Kalamata in the Final Stage of the Project
The AEPJ participated this week in the training meeting for cultural agents developed in the framework of the Youth4Culture project, in Kalamata, Greece, a cooperation project between the European Route of Ceramics, the European Route of Emperor Charles V, the Routes of The Olive Tree and the European Routes of Jewish Heritage. The Youth4Culture project’s goals are to improve youth working methods to promote youth civic participation and the revalorization of European cultural heritage, to upgrade professional skills of youth workers who support youth entrepreneurship in the cultural field, to explore best practices to adapt in the different European contexts regarding civic engagement, cultural promotion and youth, and, therefore, to improve the efficiency and impact of the European Cultural Routes.
On this occasion, the approach of the training focused on the role of young people in the preservation of intangible heritage in the framework of non-formal initiatives, on the one hand, and on the tools available to cultural professionals to engage young people and increase their active participation in the development of initiatives and facilitate educational action and awareness-raising through it.
The training focused on the tools for the development of educational action in the formal and non-formal context, especially on how to involve young people, bearing in mind the factors that hinder or facilitate their interest and participation, as well as the use of technological or teaching resources.
Within the framework of the training, several fieldwork actions have been developed – an oil press in the village of Androsa, the historic centre of Kalamata, the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Messinia, and the traditional carnival of Nedousa were visited, the latter as an example of a case of the development and preservation of traditions in local communities.
Present on behalf of the AEPJ were Marta Eichelberger-Jankowska, director of education projects of Taube Center for Jewish Life and Learning in Warsaw, Poland; Peninah Zilberman, CEO of Fundatia Tarbut Sighet – Cultura si Educatie in Judaica, Romania, Delphine Yagüe, manager of the Medieval Route of Rashi in Champagne, France; Michelle Nahum Sembira as AEPJ coordinator; and Marc Francesch Camps, European Routes of Jewish Heritage project manager.
