YDCA - Youth Development through Cre-Action

Youth Development through Cre-Action” (YDCA) is a capacity building project involving 6 partner organizations from Europe (Greece, Italy, Spain), and North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia).YDCA aims at addressing unemployment affecting disadvantaged youths (NEET youngsters, youths from poor rural areas, etc.) through a trans-continental cooperation targeted at producing and sharing educational contents and formats to spread skills and competences of creative and critical thinking as a way to better take advantages of existing skills and to forge them to cover the lack of basic skills in order to increase youth employability and social integration. YDCA aims at providing a comprehensive approach based on trans-continental cooperation and NFE to empower youth operators and organizations in partner regions and beyond to support empowerment, employability and social integration of disadvantaged youths by means of spreading knowledge, skills and competences to be used in the cultural sector. Local cultural assets are particularly relevant in rural areas. Businesses in the cultural sector could be the natural landing market for youngsters approaching the job market in these areas. However, a combination between the low level of skills developed and the misplacement of those in the workplace contribute to the worrying phenomena of youth unemployment. Target GroupsDirect- Youth workers and leaders involved in project TCs and Job Shadowing.- Disadvantaged youngsters from each partner country involved in the local Workshops’ phase, stakeholders Conferences and International Conference (selected youngsters).Indirect- Partners.- Disadvantaged young people in partner countries and beyond.- Stakeholders (NGOs, Cultural Businesses, Cultural and Art Associations, Public Authorities, Educational Institutions, VET providers) in partner countries and beyond.