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Atlantic Youth Creative Hubs This project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Atlantic Area Programme

AYCH in Brussels

AYCH ● ATLANTIC & AMBITIOUS & ASPIRATIONAL ○ 4 Atlantic coast countries ○ 17 partners ○ 14 delivery partners ○ 14+ hubs ○ 5 languages ○ 1 collaborative mission ○ 100’s of deliverables

AYCH ● YOUTH & YOURSELF ○ Up to 30 years ○ Entry-level to post-graduate ○ From organisations within and beyond education ○ Encouraging entrepreneurship, enterprise and employment skills ○ Countering youth unemployment, under-employment and poor productivity ○ Life changing and realisation

AYCH ● CREATIVE & CHALLENGING & COOL ○ Future-facing creative and digital skills ○ Communication, collaboration, flexible and innovative transferable skills which are ‘Assets for Success’ ○ Sustainable and circular economies ○ Capitalising on previous projects and making a positive difference ○ Creative mission with creative practice

AYCH ● HUBS & HAPPINESS & HORIZONS ○ Creating hubs of inventiveness and implementation ○ Linking hubs and sharing expertise and resource ○ Working virtually to minimise distance ○ Keeping well-being and positivity in all that we do ○ Helping AYCH and other Young People reach for the horizon

Origins of AYCH ● OPPORTUNITY & ORIGINALITY & OUTCOMES ○ Jules Verne _ employment solutions ○ Response to the marginalisation of arts and creative subjects in education ○ Re-design of the Youth Service and development of a model to support creative and social enterprise and education in new settings ○ Empower young people to present solutions to societal issues of the future

AYCH Education

Atlantic Youth Creative Hubs This project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Atlantic Area Programme

AYCH Education

Atlantic Youth Creative Hubs This project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Atlantic Area Programme

AYCH Ocean

WHY AYCH OCEAN WAS NECESSARY?

Each year, Europeans generate 25 million tons of plastic waste , but less than 30% is collected for recycling. All over the world, plastic represents 85% of waste on beaches . What's more, plastics reach our lungs and our tables, in the form of microplastics in the air, water and food, with effects unknown to our health. *Adapted from UNEP (2009a) and compiled from the International Coastal Clean Ups’ 1989-2007 reports of the Center for Marine Conservation/Ocean Conservancy.

Total amount of items collected: 5883

The AYCH OCEAN project is the result of the commitment of the Atlantic Youth Creative Hubs partners to bring young Europeans education in values, focusing on environmental education as a basic principle of life and the protection of the Atlantic Ocean against the growing invasion of plastic garbage.

It has two objectives: • To involve young people from 4 European countries through the Atlantic Youth Creative Hubs project (AYCH) of the Interreg Atlantic Area program in initiatives to conserve the good environmental status of its beaches. • To create educational and informative material, achieving an active and interventive communication of these values with the work of European youth.

HOW DOES IT WORK ?

Each country participating in this project can organize a series of activities based on the protection of the oceans through the analysis and involvement of the youngest population.

It is important that the AYCH project offers tools for prototyping and training, to establish solutions through new technologies and seek to undertake even business opportunities. In the same way, the interaction with the marine environment must be paramount; a help project could not be understood without there being a direct contact between young people and the natural environment to see first hand reality.

CIES WORK CAMP 2018

During the Cíes Work Camp , a protocol that specified how to carry out the cleaning of the waste present on the beach, was employed by the members of the work camp for collecting marine litter.

During the first day of arrival to the Work Camp, the volunteers were introduced to the objectives of the activity, as it is done in any Work Camp; they were also informed that they will have to produce a material or immaterial prototype that has as basic guidelines of work the sustainable entrepreneurship and the circular economy.

With part of the debris collected , the volunteers made a bunch of art pieces made out of marine litter, called plasticart . Their goal is to show how deadly is the debris for the flora and fauna of our seas and oceans.

The last day of the Work Camp will be an exhibition of the prototypes that will be evaluated by the comrades and the technical team and one of the teams will be proclaimed winner. By the end of the Work camp, the volunteers will have achieved three main goals : MAKE THEIR AWARENESS DO THEIR RELATIVES OF THE BIT AWARE OF IT SITUATION

AYCH Capitalization

Policy Capitalisation : As a partner of the AYCH project, Atlantic Cities is an ideal multiplier organization for the WP3 Capitalisation package. Today, The Atlantic Cities represent more than 400 municipalities along the European Atlantic coastline and embraces over 4 million inhabitants Act on 2 Dimensions : - Transfer AYCH at transnational scale - Share transnational knowledge with project partners

Capitalisation : Transfer AYCH at transnational scale (1) - To the Atlantic Cities members, partners/allies: i.e at our General Assembly held in San Sebastián in 2018, through a seminar on “Culture in the Atlantic Arc” - To the network “Cities for Cooperation Platform” (C4C) – which includes the Atlantic Cities; Medcities, Iberian Cities and Adriatic and Ionian Cities - To EU experts’ groups and EU institutions i.e. presentations during our events with local and European scope

Capitalisation : Transfer AYCH at transnational scale (2) Promote the integration of AYCH values by: - Including them in our contributions to the forthcoming European policies currently in preparation (post 2020) - Communicating information to EU organizations, lobbying - Ensuring the compatibility of operational tools such as the results of other projects and the future European regional policy

Capitalisation: Share transnational knowledge with Partners (1) - Discuss previous Atlantic projects on youth, innovation and / or creativity , such as ANATOLE, TONETA, IMAGINA, ATBRAND and KNOW CITIES, where the Atlantic Cities had a capitalisation role - Share our current activities on youth opportunities , such as the project “Atlantic Social Lab”, the Atlantic Futures programme or She4Sea campaign - Create new spaces of common work: Atlantic City of the Year 2019 and 2020 - Invite EU experts on Intellectual property to define who owns IP of AYCH spin-offs & which type of IP (ex: open source – training property)

Capitalisation: Share transnational knowledge with Partners (2) - Identify EU / national opportunities for our target group in order to reach the numbers (seminars, internships, etc…) – ex. “Creative Jams” out of AYCH - Propose EU events where AYCH can be seen as a good practice ex. the workshop in Vigo, Spain in October 2018 – Atlantic Stakeholder platform) - Encourage partners to join EU / international initiatives and prizes to label AYCH as an EU good practice ex. local events in 2018 labelled “European Year of Heritage” - Help partners with their stakeholder capitalisation: transferring / adopting the “ URBACT method ”

URBACT Method : ENGAGING WITH STAKEHOLDERS WORKING WITH BUILDING STAKEHOLDERS CAPACITIES PARTICIPATIVE MAKING THE MOST OF ACTION PLANNING TRANSNATIONAL EXCHANGE

Atlantic Cities role on WP3 : Some Actions - Newsletter on a monthly basis to communicate to AYCH members the actual opportunities of funding / calls / prizes, also meetings/events and policy developments - Create synergies with other EU funded projects - Promote the integration of AYCH values regarding the new European policies currently in preparation: European priorities for 2020 - Reinforce Capitalisation thanks to the publication of monthly updates which are being included in the Atlantic Cities newsletter with more than 1000 subscribers - Collect information from EU organisations, lobbies and integrate their message to Atlantic Cities policy documents / activities / web communication

Atlantic Futures Erasmus+ EU AYCH Ecoris3 PROJECTS EYE IVY

Atlantic Futures EU AFFAIRS

EYE: ECORIS3: Erasmus for Young Bringing business to Entrepreneurs innovation

AYCH Kids Drawing Contest Theme: The Atlantic Ocean & Sustainable development - To be embedded in AYCH OCEAN initiative Participating countries: UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal For who : Children 8-12 years old divide into two categories 6-9 / 10-12 Timeline: Applications open by end of February or early March & limit date for submission : April 9 2019 Deadline for jury vote: April 30 2019 Results to be announced on Europe Day: 9 May 2019