Art Fusion project will bring together organisations and young people from African and European continent. The aim of this project is to engage participants from different cultural backgrounds in a global education process with the use of participative art methods, creativity workshops and musical pedagogy. Project will foster development of social competences and participation of young people, with the emphasis on inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities. Young people with fewer opportunities, empowered by the experience will gain social competences and self esteem for their future engagements. They will act as promoters of active citizenship and youth participation and promote global solidarity as a tool for combating poverty and social exclusion in their local community.

Project will also create and develop a sustainable network of organisations and youth workers, who will be able to multiply the results of the project with theuse of their gained knowledge and work tools and through dissemination of the results of the project.
Working methods in this project will be participative art pedagogy and global education tools. Creative art

All organisations involved will first meet in the Kick off meeting in Ghana, where coordinators will discuss in details the realisation of activities in the project, determine the framework and specific work tools for implementation of International training, local workshops and Youth exchange and present their examples of good practices in related fields. During the Kick off meeting we will start preparing a manual for trainers and youth workers. This manual will be developed with youth workers in mind; it will enable youth workers to facilitate workshops on the topics of cultural diversity, inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities, sustainable development, climate change, migrations, combating poverty and social exclusion and Millennium Development Goals with the methodological tools of participative art and art pedagogy. This manual will be further developed during the International training.

Youth leaders and youth workers from each organisation will meet in the International training for trainers in Slovenia, where they will gain knowledge and develop methodological foundations for workshops on global education, creative pedagogy and participative arts, which they will later facilitate in local workshops in their home countries. Result of this training will be a Manual for youth workers and trainers on the topics cultural diversity, inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities, sustainable development, climate change, migrations, combating poverty and social exclusion and Millennium Development Goals. This manual will include guidelines for successful implementation of workshops, examples of good practices, practical examples of workshops, team building activities, participative art workshops and art pedagogy workshops.
In the next phase of the project, youth workers from partner organizations will facilitate local workshops for young people in each partner country. There the young participants will start the global education process, discuss issues of poverty, social exclusion, sustainable development, Millennium Development goals, youth empowerment and active citizenship and through the use of participative art and creativity workshops exchange ideas and gather materials (indigenous music, instruments, crafts, information about local customs...) that they will later use and present in the Youth exchange.

Chosen participants and their youth leaders will then come to Slovenia and participate in a two weeks long Youth exchange. There young participants will present their local culture and indigenous art forms and exchange their knowledge and ideas about global issues of poverty, social exclusion, sustainable development, youth empowerment and active citizenship, which they discussed and developed during participation in local workshops. Participants will learn to respect the diversity of cultures, cultural expressions and artistic forms and will constructively contribute their own views and cultural heritage to the global dialogue. They will encounter different viewpoints and approaches and a variety of creative and cultural expression, which will help them re evaluate their own culture and local indigenous art forms. Participants will experience that cultural identity can be build or felt with respect for diversity.