"<< Background >>CoMuSYc will develop a comprehensive and cross-sectoral strategy that will increase the intercultural and transnational dialogue between young people, using creativity and art as fundamental tools for mediating and building bridges. A high number of reports and studies reveal how social marginalization continues to represent a widely diffused phenomenon in contemporary Europe, in particular in the Mediterranean region. Young individuals who are struggling to find a pathway in their transition from study to work tend to loosen the ties with their communities, becoming uninterested in the economic, social and political reality of the country and continent where they live and losing any trust in the possibility of becoming active members of their society.CoMuSYc aims to play an active role in fighting again the risk for social exclusion, providing tools and strategies for keeping open the lines of dialogue with marginalized youth, helping them in expressing their fears, and valorizing their key competencies and skills in an open Europe. The use of creativity will allow these young people to become active members of a democratic Europe, supporting them in rethinking their possibilities to find new opportunities in the labour market.<< Objectives >>The core innovation of CoMuSYc resides in its idea of creating a series of learning access points in everyday experience, where individuals will be put in the condition of expressing their ideas with imaginative, structured nf/if cultural and artistic learning. CoMuSYc seeks to develop Project Results that support the creation of new pathways to initial vocational education and social integration. By fully utilizing peer mentors aged 18-30 as motivators (active involvement of target group in project tools design and development), the CoMuSYc approach combines these elements to bring ‘back’ into learning and engaging marginalized youth and support their social and economic integration. The CoMuSYc approach will place the key competencies, especially soft skills, of the European Reference Framework for Lifelong Learning (ERF) at its heart, and equip the trainers and tutors that support the young people with adaptable and effective tools.<< Implementation >>The specific objectives of the project are:- designing and test new, non-formal and informal culture-based training and peer learning activities for 100 young people aged 18-30, delivered via tutor and peer support in several non-formal and informal pathways;- creating an innovative series of 'unconventional' spaces to engage alienated and marginalized young people, that will support tutors in youth organizations and peer-mentors who use cultural learning in non-formal/informal contexts;- developing transversal and transferable skills (especially soft skills) for marginalized young people, structured around and informed by the key competencies of the European Reference Framework for Lifelong Learning.The project will pursue these objectives by creating a set of methodologies for integrating music therapy into a series of tools that could be used by coaches and peer mentors to support the Re-activation (Project result 1) process. Moreover, the project contents will be supported by the development of an open educational resource (OER) for the creation of digital creative content and high-quality multimedia products. This OER will be an easy-to-use and completely free tool that will support NEETs to create their own videos and multimedia content. The software will come with a video tutorial that explains the main functionalities, providing examples on how to use it in everyday life. These contents will be delivered within the framework of a methodology based on ""Scenarios of activation"", a multiplicity of access points in which the project users will be asked to adopt creative and participative approaches to everyday reality.<< Results >>Comusyc partnership aims to develop an “integrated” approach, joining the efforts of 7 organizations from 5 countries that have different profiles and backgrounds and a common proven track record of supporting young people (and NEETs) into active citizenship and participation. A similar multiplicity of focuses and ranges of action will guarantee an advantageous sharing of experiences and expertise, creating a consortium able to develop transnational methodologies for the valorization of informal learning approaches to address social exclusion.COMUSYC will involve and realize:- No. 5 National CoMuSYc Teams (NCT)- No. 20 NCT participants per partner (no.100 in total)- No. 10 Best Practices detected per partner (no. 50 in total) on the creative use of music and visual arts to increase youth (18-30) participation from all Europe and the development of their soft skills;- No. 5 Workshops NCT (no.1 per partner)- No. 5 Workshop Reports (no.1 per partner)- Questionnaire for feedback collection (Quality)- No.1 Transnational Document (based on Workshop Reports and C1 Report). It will be published on the website- Templates and Videos with pedagogical purposes (related with project result 1.3)- An adaptable Toolkit- E-Manual for the coaches/trainers and peer mentors- No. 100 participants at the pilot (it is not necessary that they are those who part in the NCT)- At least, 10 video diaries per piloting partner (no.50 in total) recording participants- A Digital Library, that will support the sustainability of the project- The organizators of the Lucca Comics Festival have expressed their interest in becoming an associate partner of the COMUSYC proposal, providing a wide resonance to the project activities. A letter of association will be delivered as soon as possible after the activation of project activities, clearly determining the set of joint activities that will be organized yearly to guarantee broad dissemination to the COMUSYC action."