About Us

PIROUETTE Pirouette is a 24-month Capacity Building project that aims to promote the use of street performing arts — such as circus, street dance, and street painting — as an innovative non-formal education (NFE) methodology to foster social and civic engagement among young people and to promote community-led urban regeneration in disadvantaged areas of Germany, Albania, Italy, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Pirouette project emerged from an analysis of the living conditions of young people and their civic engagement through street performing arts within the national contexts of the four partner countries.

The project idea stems from the recognition of young people’s social and civic engagement as a driving force for community development. The research supports a participatory approach to identifying culture as a tool for civic engagement, as well as the creation and sharing of cultural projects aimed at strengthening social belonging and community participation.

Our results

The Project aims to produce the following results:

Research

National researches conducted on the status and some best practices of performative arts for educational, community development, regeneration purposes in selected locations in Italy, Germany, Albania, BiH.

TRAINING FORMAT ON “PERFORMATIVE ARTS IN NFE”

Training Format on how to include and exploit performative street arts as a Non Formal Education tool, collaboratively developed and tested

“YOUTH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TROUGH PERFORMATIVE STREET ARTS” TOOLKIT

Toolkit developed through a co-design process between youth workers and partner organizations addressing the theoretical frame of youth civic engagement through performative street arts, existent good practice instruments, as well as a set of educational activity/workshops and video tutorials

2 main international events will make these results possible:

1 TRAINING COURSE

Training course on performative street art and NFE addressed to youth workers from partner organizations

1 YOUTH EXCHANGE

Exchange of youth workers and youngsters of each participant country, who will be trained in performative arts events management, through NFE methodologies, simulation game, simulation of roundtables with local authorities and stakeholders, development of event ideas

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international events

partners

podcasts

Partners

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.