Acronym: Photo Youth

Contract Number: ESTLATRUS/3.2/ELRI-146/2011/10

Beneficiary: Education, Culture and Sports Department of Riga City Council

Beneficiary Address: Education, Culture and Sports Department of Riga City Council

Country: Latvia

Region: Riga City

Project Location: Pskov Region, Leningrad Region, St. Petersburg City

Start Date: 01.01.2012

Project Duration: 18 months

Grant Amount: 259.015,20 €

Percentage Of Total Eligible Action Costs: 88,39%

Summary: Former Soviet countries including Latvia and Russia still lack equal opportunities for all inhabitants to get additional education thereby rising their competitiveness in labour market. Skills to take photos and treat them by using computer programmes can foster integration of young people with disabilities in society and give them new chance of development. The project aims to contribute to improving the living standards in the Programme area, and more specifically - promoting people to people cooperation towards social inclusion and against discrimination. All people have the right to get education and to be respected as learners, right to education also means right to receive appropriate, customized and effective education. Unfortunately, many teachers and social workers suffer lack of tools and methods to adapt teaching for young people with disabilities. Therefore the overall objective of project is to improve living standards and provide equal access to the additional education for young people with disabilities. The specific objectives of this project are: 1. To elaborate new teaching method in cooperation of teachers, students, photographers and other local stakeholders. 2. To improve communication, learning and applying knowledge for young people with disabilities through art of photography. 3. To promote cooperation of local municipalities, special educational institutions and other institutions of the Programme region in the field of education, culture and social care. To achieve this, Partners will organise two teachers’ seminars to exchange the experience and elaborate new teaching method of art of photography for young people with different kind of disabilities. The photographers-experts’ consultations will be organised in each partner city. The methodology will be approbated at students’ workshops in each partner organisation. The joint summer Photo camp will be organised to exchange teaching methods and achieved results. Final conference and local dissemination events are targeted at mainstream and special educators of arts that might use the results of project, as well as policy-makers and other stakeholders benefiting from the project. Project web page, travelling exhibition and information in the mass media is targeted to all groups.

Measure name: Cooperation in spheres of culture, sport, education, social and health

Measure: 3.2

Involved partners:

1. Education, Culture and Sports Department of Riga City Council, Krišjāņa Valdemāra iela 5
2. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Art College of Pskov District, 180000, RUSSIA, Voevody Shuiskogo str., 2, Pskov,
3. Centre of complex social services for citizens "Vyborg", 188800, Russia, Vyborg, Rubezhnaja street, 28a
4. Regional non-governmental organisation “Petersburg Parents”, 191123, ST. Petersburg, Russia, Шпалерная 22, 9Н

Additional information:

1. Portfolio_146.pdf (pdf) 365.7 KB
2. RESULTS_146.pdf (pdf) 612.07 KB