Youth Impact through Community Festivals (YICF)

<< Objectives >>The YICF project aims to promote accessibility to cultural and civic events across Europe, empower youth and strengthen local communities by using the tool of festivals. Its objectives include empowering 12 youth workers to support youth in organising impactful local events, training 20 youth (16-24) in event planning, building youth work capacity in 4 organisations (IT,NO,RO,ES), involve 20+ stakeholder organisations in inclusive events and publishing a toolkit for organising inclusive events.<< Implementation >>The consortium is going to implement the following activities:1.Kick-off meeting2.Training for trainers3.Six-months capacity-building activities with youth from local communities4.Festival co-design training with 20 youth5.Four local festivals in Italy, Spain, Romania and Norway6.Toolkit creation7.Evaluation and closing meetingAll activities aim at empowering youth in their local communities, strengthen community bonds and positively impact the organisations’ skills and reach.<< Results >>1. Empowered youth workers2. Skilled young community animators: Capable of planning community-focused events3. Stronger youth organisations, with enhanced capacity and sustainability and more visibility4. Interconnected and more inclusive communities5. Expanded network: wider support from diverse stakeholders around Europe6. Increased Accessibility: inclusive cultural and civic events7. Toolkit for Good Practices (in four languages)8. More ngaged and empowered youth