7 Trails for Mixitywas/is an 18 months project aiming at reinforcing the capacity of 7 youth organizations and networks from 4 continents (Europe with Bulgaria, Spain, Italy and France; South-Africa; India; Mexico) with a central objective to open youth activities and programs/policies to all young people including those with disabilities and other discriminated minorities such as migrants and refugees. We focused on showing that all youth activities and especially those involving arts and cultures have to be opened to all young people as a key tool for their personal and professional development and whatever their origins or situations. We have based our experiment on the idea that “mixity”, introduced and practiced through art techniques, increase mutual understanding, skill development, expression, benefit to all young people and citizens. And stop the isolation of a large part of the young people staying in specialized centres, under-representated in the medias and cultural spheres. Their cultural expression and contributions are key factors for our societies and reveal its strength and values beyond the youth sector. Our project showed it is a powerful tool for social inclusion, for self and collective construction and representation of all youth. To reach this goal, we did organize 7 phases. 3 mobility activities took place in 4 continents to meet, observe, exchange, elaborate and transmit new common good practices. In between, 4 different meetings have been organized in Italy, France and Bulgaria to prepare, evaluate, control and follow the activities and common scheme and program to reach the expected results and impact of the project.Various methods have been collected during 4 jobs shadowing in Mexico (music), Mumbai (visual arts and meditative techniques), Durban (dance, circus and movement) and Catalan Pyrenees (theatre), involving 21 youth workers and multiple experts.Those non-formal methods have being experimented during a 3 weeks youth exchange in France with 51 young people from our organizations, from different backgrounds, as diverse as our societies are. Richness of discussions about mixity, societal issues, proposals of participants, adapted methods brought the all group in an inclusive creative process. That led to many realizations: performances, happening, sculptures, exhibitions shared with local audience of 850 persons and built string links between participants, partner organizations. To share and disseminate the methods experimented, we have set a week-long training course in Bulgaria with 28 highly motivated youth workers chosen from our networks of associated partners in the youth field and with a big potential to create and implement these new activities and methods to act as multipliers and members of our international network. Methodological resources produced are available online: website / platform www.7trailsformixity.org easy to access and to use. An international common day dedicated to Mixity has being launched simultaneously on 10th of October 2019 with the goal to inform the public, to reach the public opinion, to attract new activists and organizations. It will be happening in 2020 as well and in the future we hope.In addition, social networks, local and online medias, Erasmus+ results platform contribute to disseminateoutcomes to more than 12000 people from all continents. Our activities have brought new and real skills, methods, networks and perspectives for the 140 direct participants. It has enriched the fields of action and enlarge networks of the 7 organizations iwith new approaches and common and transversal possible projects and with new partners found in their countries thanks to the project. It has changed us, our local communities and the process is fully continuing with numbers of dissemination actions comming for a crucial movement for equity, civil rights and self and collective construction, contribution and expression of all youth.

“Elevation” is a 16 months project aiming at reinforcing the capacity of 6 organizations and networks active in the field of Youth from Bulgaria, Italy, France, Turkey, Ivory Coast and Mexico with a central objective to open youth activities and programs/policies to asylum seekers, migrants and refugees. We strongly believe that all youth activities and especially those involving arts and cultures are key to identify and develop the competences of those who are mainly in need, often isolated in specialised centres and without resources to discover and use their full potential. Agreeing that all young people should benefit from these powerful tools that we all believe in, for personal and professional development, whatever their origins or situations are, we want to increase mutual understanding and benefits among citizens and to stop the isolation of a large part of the young people for a better inclusion and for the benefit of all our societies. Through observation of different contexts, experimentation of new common techniques and development of new activities, we think that renewed artistic practises can participate to change our critical national situations on the issue of inclusion of migrants and refugees. Through exchanges of good practices and non-formal education methods it is possible to make a difference and to strengthen the competences. For that, we have planned to organize 7 phases to meet, observe, exchange and elaborate new common good practices based on jobs shadowing in Mexico (music), Ivory Coast (dance and movement), Italy (circus), France (theatre), Bulgaria (art craft), Turkey (digital and visual arts) with 30 youth workers and multiple associated partners involved, in order to experiment new non-formal methods during a 3 weeks youth exchange in France with 45 young people from our organizations - half of them being refugees and/or migrants - to be able to test and evaluate the future applicability in our organizations and networks. To share and disseminate the results, we have set a week-long training course in Bulgaria with almost 20 highly motivated youth workers chosen from our networks of associated partners in the youth field and with a big potential to create and implement these new activities and methods to act as multipliers and members of our international network and online Arts-Learning Platform. An international common day dedicated to Quality Welcome will also be launched simultaneously with the goal to inform the public, to reach the public opinion through media campaigns, to attract new activists and organizations and to sign new partnership agreements with private and public entities to participate to this important dynamic of social inclusion and transformation. 4 different meetings will be organized between the 3 mobility phases in Turkey, France, Bulgaria and Italy to prepare, evaluate, control and follow the activities and common scheme and program to reach the expected results and impact of the project.

<< Objectives >>First of all, this project aims to create an international dynamic aimed at young people. Second of all, this project should allow partners from the associative and educational sectors, as well as national and European institutions to exchange on good practices and talk about their own experiences, encourage active citizenship, gain experience in international cooperation and intercultural skills, encourage learning and allow young people who have less opportunities to open up internationally<< Implementation >>Educational trips will be organised in 3 of partner countries, so as to follow in Dumas’ footsteps, and a travel diary will be produced by the pupils, as well as a book on the construction of Europe by great writers. 2 seminars will be organised, one for the teachers and one for the structures which manage the European cultural itineraries. An exhibition on illustrations of Dumas, and one on Dumas’ travels, as well as theatre and fencing lessons will complete the artistic value of the project.<< Results >>Thanks to the completion of these objectives, the “From d’Artagnan to Napoleon, Dumas’ Europe step by step” project will allow to raise the participants awareness around European citizenship. From Dumas and his travels to todays European institutions, the will is the same, to build a Europe of Peace by having a better understanding of others. This understanding is aquired through culture, literature, trips, sport and exchanges.