Inclusion is Fusion!

Daniel is a passionate musican from Argentina. He decided to change his life, stoped working as an engineer in Argentina and came to Starkmacher (Germany) to develop social projects. He is a real changemaker that you need to get to know! During the third meeting of the project Inclusion is Fusion , he offered a percussion workshop. It's an approach that you can use in your own youth work, especially with intercultural groups when people are having different language skills.   Here is, what he wants to share with us: *Why did I do these percussion workshops? It was really fun for me when I saw some percussion ensembles, and also taking part in some of them made me notice that I wanted to share music with other people. I've studied music, and during my studies I faced really different kind of teachers and ways of teaching.  I'm a theoretical guy, and need every explanation to understand something, but when I started teaching, I realized that there are many ways o...

Prologue This text is for e xperienced grant writers, but also for the beginners with patience to dig information as for them it will help to feel more secure in their practice. What can you find here, why to read it? Text will define the theory of change, and then it will compare it with the logical matrix/logic of intervention (as the widespread existing practice), concluding with what is going on there in field of grant writing science and practice, and how to react on this “new” thing in project development and project preparation. Before you read the text way down below, here’s the homework you need to do. Read the following links: What is the Theory of change? https://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/what-theory-change-and-how-do-we-use-it More about Theory of change? https://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/four-principles-theories-change-global-development Debate about Theory of change? https://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/where-have-we-got-theories-...

These movies are great to watch with a group of young people and discuss some parts of it afterwards: Real value Real Value is a documentary that delivers a discussion on how business can be used to create value beyond profit; connecting motivational stories from social entrepreneurs working in agriculture, apparel, insurance, and biofuel. It also talks about the science behind our perception of value and our behaviour related to economics. Watch HERE  (Watch for free with prime) Sustainable A vital investigation of the economic and environmental instability of America's food system, from the agricultural issues we face - soil loss, water depletion, climate change, pesticide use - to the community of leaders who are determined to fix it. Sustainable is a film about the land, the people who work it, and what must be done to sustain it for future generations. Watch HERE   (Watch for free with prime) Inside the Garbage The film busts the m...

What do we mean with "inclusion"? We are not only talking about including people with disability. In the project "Inclusion is Fusion", we are generally talking about social inclusion of youth which means we focus on actively including people with fewer opportunities.Here is a quick overview of the most relevant facts speaking about social inclusion in the European Union. According to the European Commission, 47,3% of projects in the Youth in Action project indicated that they addressed the priority of inclusion and one in four participans had "fewer opportunities". Now, in the Erasmus+ projects, do you think it has changed? Social inclusion was a key priority of the Youth in Action programme and the subsequent Erasmus + programme as well as an indirect goal of the ‘Youth Guarantee’ approach. The more recent Erasmus+ Inclusion and Diversity Strategy is trying to push further measures in a more strategic way. It is sometimes hard to define, who is...