Erasmus+ Small-scale Partnership in Youth
RISE explores how music, rhythm, and creative expression can strengthen inclusion, support youth wellbeing, and build bridges across communities.
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Why RISE?
Music offers a shared language. It creates space for self-expression, connection, and participation, including for young people who may feel excluded from more formal settings.
RISE brings together youth-work experience from Finland, Estonia, and Greece to develop practical, inclusive methods that youth workers can use in their everyday work.
What shapes the project
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Small-scale partnerships help organisations exchange experience, test practical ideas, and make European cooperation more accessible. RISE uses that framework to connect three partners around a shared youth-work challenge.
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RISE combines music-based activities with non-formal learning. The project gives youth workers practical ways to support confidence, self-expression, wellbeing, and active participation.
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The project focuses on young people facing social, mental-health, or economic challenges while also supporting the professionals who work beside them.
Summary
RISE unites partners from Finland, Estonia, and Greece to create inclusive, music-based approaches for youth work. Partners exchange expertise, test ideas with young people, and turn their learning into resources that others can use.
Goals
Results
The partnership will produce a shared methodology, a practical handbook and facilitator resources, pilot workshops, an online webinar, and digital materials that help the work continue beyond the project period.
From the project
Partners established a shared framework for collecting good practices and developing the RISE Handbook.
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The partnership met in Helsinki to launch the project, align the work plan, and meet local creative-youth-work organisations.
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