Erasmus+ KA210 Youth 

"CHAC"

2023-1-AT01-KA210-YOU-000166733

Consortium

Coordinator: XsentrikArts (Austria)

Partners: EduLab, NGO Nest Berlin (Germany).

The objectives of the "Cultural and historical awareness for active citizenship" (CHACH) project are:

1) To foster a social inclusion process for both youth and local communities, deepening their involvement in cultural activities and their knowledge about the history of the place they live in. This objective aims to push their communication and sense of community and active citizenship by exploring social issues other inhabitants face and changes that have occurred over time.

2) To improve educators' knowledge about Public/Oral History methodologies and target group needs to improve their everyday activities, fostering the creation of similar projects in other realities. This objective aims to give educators the tools to sensitize youngsters about project topics and start a social inclusion process through culture and storytelling, fostering their sense of belonging to their communities.

Results

Training Format for the implementation of an online course for educators on: 

• public history and oral history;
• social storytelling;
• community reporting;
• Notion platform.

Guide and Training Format for educators containing the study report, good practices, and the description of the activities for implementing workshops involving a youth target group.

Toolkit containing the procedures and results of each workshop.

*Work in progress.

Activities

Online training for educators

The 22nd and the 28th of June 2024, six educators (two per partner) were trained on how to employ a set of methodologies related to public history, oral history, social storytelling, community reporting, and on the Notion platform. 

Local workshops

Between September and November 2024 the workshops involving eight participants were implemented. The workshops were constituted by a journey of 10 meetings in September 2024 (training, interviews, beginning of the pieces creation), plus other additional meetings in October and November to complete the oral archive of the interviews collected and the pieces. 

The September meetings were held at ExMè, a space designed to repopulate the heart of the city. The ExMè structure and Mameli Square constitute a nerve centre of cultural, commercial, and artistic attraction for the city of Nuoro and its territory, bringing together all sectors of the local economy, from handicrafts to wine and food production, to artistic, literary, musical, and generally cultural activities. In addition, some of the interviews took place at the Eliseo Theatre of Nuoro (TEN).

Exhibition

From 4 to 12 April 2025, the TEN Gallery of the Eliseo Theatre of Nuoro hosted the exhibition "Nuoro, Stories of ties, encounters and journeys".

The exhibition was set up as an itinerary for visitors. Starting with an infographic on the CHAC project, visitors were accompanied through the works of the participants, in a succession of stories expressed through comics, drawings, poems, and photos. In addition, the digital oral archive of interviews collected during the workshops was made available. Some visitors in fact had the pleasure of enjoying the participants' works while listening to the interviews from the archive.