The European Project Atlantic Youth Creative Hubs (AYCH) – Extension and Capitalisation, financed by Call 3 of Interreg Atlantic Area, to be developed until July 2023, aims at capitalizing and disseminating the successful methodologies developed in the previous AYCH (Call 2, implemented from October 2017 to May 2021), but also to implement new pilots in the area of Entrepreneurship and Youth Employability, throughout the Atlantic Area in the Cultural and Creative Sector.

The “AYCH International Creative Jam”, held on the 10th to 12th May, in the city of Nantes, at the Magnificent Space of the L'École de Design Nantes Atlantique (EDNA), represents an “anchor activity” of the project, whose methodology and results achieved are worthy of being disseminated, considering the transferability potential to other territories, as well as to other agents, partners and entities that act in the field of young entrepreneurs.

During this event, the AYCH partnership brought together young people, partners, specialists, mentors, stakeholders and jury members from 5 countries on the Atlantic Area, mobilizing and involving participants from Portugal, France, Spain, United Kingdom and Ireland for an intense creative process around of a topic considered strategic for the Atlantic Area “Impacts on the Sustainable Future”.

We want to share this experience and its successful methodologies, so invite you to enjoy this Page , so that you can become aware of our AYCH vision and educational values, and how an International Creative Jam can be implemented in practice, enabling young people to explore and develop new ideas in new creative processes. of co-creation and co-experimentation.

Santo Tirso Municipality, as a Lead Partner, is very proud to talk about the European AYCH partnership, and about their developed international networking, which through a network of hubs encourage the sharing of knowledge, experiences and resources and stimulate the development of youth creativity.

For More information on this event, You can download pour magazine that highlights all the activities here - icj_magazine_hr.pdf