About CLOE

CLOE was born during the COVID19 pandemic that impacted on youths and cultural and creative industries (CCI), more than elsewhere. When CCI moved on digital environment providing public with free cultural contents, we all valued its impact on people quality of life, while the sector experienced the loose revenues, usually generated by events in presence.

The Pandemic impacted on youth people’s future more than other aged groups. In this context Partners have joined forces and experiences to design and test an INNOVATIVE edutainment PROCESS responding to both issues: crisis of the Cultural and Creative industries and young people’s loss of perspectives.

The project’s scope is to nurture young people creative talents and provides young cultural workers with both a creative educational frame and an entrepreneurship sustainable model that can be scaled up.

The mechanism is based on DISTANCE LABS, where youths and cultural workers jointly produce:

1

Street Musical

a CONCET street MUSICAL, notably an INCLUSIVE show where the performance matters less than the  concept conveyed,

2

Web Magazine

a WEB MAGAZINE to give voice to young creative leaders,

3

Network

The network of young Creative Leaders Of Europe.

Youths (18-30 y.o) are selected independently from the backgrounds: both youths already active in the creative sector (musicians, dancers, writers) and those who never exploited their creative attitudes, youths with economic and those with no economic possibilities, youths already engaged in society and those living at margins. All can take part to a real INCLUSIVE and creative edutainment experience.

The outcomes are transferred to stakeholders of the youths and the creative sectors, by means of:

1

Guideline to unleash creative potential of youths,

2

Handbook to support young creative professionals and entrepreneurs to generate revenue form the digital environment and

3

a Roadmap to scale up and replicate the edutainments process.

All the story is told via multimedia and creative products (video, vox-pop and posts) edited together by youths and experts, with the final aim of providing stakeholders with tools necessary to take over CLOE results. The direct involvement of youths in producing the musical and developing the web magazine contents is the core of the edutainment process, which unleashes digital and entrepreneurs’ skills of young people and equips creative leader to drive the transition from the new normal to an actual inclusive future where no one if left behind.

The project’s specific objectives are:

Youths (18-30 y.o) are selected independently from the backgrounds: both youths already active in the creative sector (musicians, dancers, writers) and those who never exploited their creative attitudes, youths with economic and those with no economic possibilities, youths already engaged in society and those living at margins. All can take part to a real INCLUSIVE and creative edutainment experience.

The outcomes are transferred to stakeholders of the youths and the creative sectors, by means of:

1

Unleashing CREATIVITY SKILLS of youths, by involving 360 young people (18-30 y.o) in an experimental distance-cocreation process, which results into significative cultural products: a concept street musical and a digital magazine

2

Supporting creative young people to develop new social ENTREPRENEURSHIP, by providing them a novel hybrid business model, which will question existing mechanisms and will generate revenues from cultural DIGITAL Products

3

Conveying the message that young people are the protagonists of the “new normal” leading transformation towards a more sustainable and INCLUSIVE European perspective, in other terms: “Creative youths will lead Europe from the new normal to the future leaving no one behind”

Partners

KEAN (Cell of Alternative Youth Activities) is a non-profit organization, founded in 2004 in Athens, Greece aiming the development and implementation of humanitarian programs for the protection of the social and physical environment. Its ultimate goal is upgrading the lives of young people and vulnerable social groups, combating social exclusion and poverty, promoting a better organized society with respect for human rights and the environment and promoting volunteering spirit and familiarity with the new technologies

 

KEAN focuses on the preservation and promoting of universal values, such as peace, freedom, equality, social progress, human dignity, prosperity, solidarity, education, and environmental protection. KEAN devotes special attention to activities that support social minorities and disadvantaged social groups in their fight against discrimination, racism, harassment and violence.

As an open, social youth community, KEAN aims to raise public awareness of social issues by actively engaging children, youth, and the public at large. For meeting the above aims, KEAN engages in a range of activities such as educational and training workshops, scientific research and analysis, roundtable discussions, dissemination, publicity, and awareness-raising events.

 
USMA is a youth association founded in Caselle in 1963. It can count o a multicultural community of about 800 members residing in the province of Padua and employs a staff of about 70 collaborators.  The association’s activities involve many sectors and concern all possible dimensions and interests of the youth world.



USMA has organized a real cluster at a local level, creating a wide-ranging network and bringing together different public and private subjects, active in youth services, who collaborate within the cluster, and share problems, solutions, initiatives, and resources. With a particular focus on the last 10 years, USMA has undertaken an action to expand its range of action to fully exploit its potential as a youth aggregator to deal directly with youth policies and promoters of innovative ideas and projects. In fact, the ability to involve young people and promote their active role in society has always been one of USMA’s main priorities. Today USMA role is driven toward social inclusion and civic engagement towards sport and cultural activities. It can be identified as a youth and sport inclusive hub due to the strong commitment in these terms.

A substantial added value in supporting and helping young people with fewer opportunities arose from the partnership in the context of projects funded by the European Commission. Concerning projects financed by European Union resources, USMA has been a partner and lead partner in several international projects co-financed by the Erasmus program (Erasmus+, Erasmus Sport and REC).

 

“Rosto Solidário is a NGO located in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, that received the formal status of non-governmental organization in 2008. ROSTO SOLIDARIO aims at fostering global citizenship and solidarity by enhancing local communities’ human and social development. RS core principles are civic participation, social integration, solidarity, networking and partnership.

“Rosto Solidário is a NGO located in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, that received the formal status of non-governmental organization in 2008. ROSTO SOLIDARIO aims at fostering global citizenship and solidarity by enhancing local communities’ human and social development. RS core principles are civic participation, social integration, solidarity, networking and partnership.

The organization scope of work includes four main areas: International Development Cooperation; Global Citizenship Education; Volunteering; and Family-based Social Support. Gender Equity, Human Rights and Social Inclusion are addressed as cross-cutting issues in all programs implemented. Also, Rosto Solidário takes Non Formal Education approaches to foster lifelong learning opportunities following Global Citizenship Framework.”

Project updates

This section is dedicated to the CLOE project updates and news: a collection of videos, photos, interviews and more, regarding the implementation of the project, the participants involved, the projects objectives, the results achieved etc.