Project leader:  Institutul Intercultural Timișoara

Nr. of the project: eMS RORS-22

Period: 18 luni

Budget: 462.866,25 euro

Partners:

  • Asociația Nevo Parudimos (Reșița),
  • Primăria orașului Zrenjanin (Serbia),
  • Centrul pentru Arte Frumoase și Aplicate Terra (Kikinda, Serbia)

The Intercultural Institute from Timisoara, in partnership with the Nevo Parudimos Association (Resita), the City Hall of the Zrenjanin (Serbia), The Centre for Beautiful and Applied Arts Terra (Kikinda, Serbia), implemented the project “Inclusive Art – Access to Culture for Disadvantaged Children and Youth”, eMS RORS-22, financed by the European Union through the INTERREG IPA program of Trans-frontier cooperation Romania-Serbia.

The project had a total budget of 462.866,25 Euros, of which the IPA financing was of 393.436,31 Euros. The period of the project is of 18 months.

The project objectives

The project proposed a dynamic partnership, between two NGOs, a local public authority and a public culture institution, in coagulating and valuing the creative potential of the entire region. The project uses culture and art means offered in order to create integration and creative development context, for the local communities involved and for artists groups and even from disadvantaged groups to which it addresses to.

Target groups

The target groups of this project are heterogeneous and formed of: creative young people, graduates – unemployed, especially young artists and disadvantaged young people and children, from disadvantaged rural and urban areas; Roma youth and children; children with parents working abroad; young people, children and even adult migrants; other interested people from the community (teachers, educators, directors of cultural houses, librarians etc.).

At the beginning of the project, the project teams of each partner will participate in a common training workshop, during which creative entrepreneurship themes will be acquired and socio-educational animation. A series of participative trainings and workshops will address a number of 104 creative young people, young Roma people and representatives of the 12 disadvantaged communities (8 from Timis and Caras-Severin districts in Romania and 4 from Zrenjanin and Kikinda, Serbia) selected upfront by the project teams. For their activities in these communities, young artists will dispose of financial resources to implement, during duration of 4 months, an artistic intervention that will train disadvantaged children and young people from the communities selected.

In addition, activities of mentoring and international mobility will be organized for creative young people, a workshop and a terracotta sculpture exhibition in Kikinda, a visual art exhibition “Pavilion Banat” organised in Timisoara. 900 children from the entire area will benefit from reading and telling stories workshops and 200 children form Zrenjanin and from partner cities will participate in non-frontier games. Another activity involved a group of 60 migrant children and adults to receive a cultural passport and facilitate access to a minimum of 3 cultural events, so that they may better know and understand the environment they live in.  As a continuity of the project Poles of Cultures, another group of activities will be dedicated to the analysis and evaluation of public cultural politics documents from the perspective of facilities offered for social and cultural inclusion of children and young people from disadvantaged groups. A conference and an identification event for the partners, for future projects – matching event, will conclude the Inclusive Art project.

For supplementary information, the contact person is the project manager Daniel Grebeldinger – e-mail: grebeldingerdaniel@yahoo.com, phone no: 0723 202 756.

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