Down to eARTh is a two-year, multi-country youth initiative designed to inspire a new generation of active European citizens through creativity, collaboration, and civic engagement. Implemented across seven countries -the Netherlands, Greece, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, and Albania- the project empowers young people to explore sustainability, human values, and intercultural dialogue using artistic expression as a vehicle for social change.
At its core, the project blends non-formal education, co-created artistic processes, and cross-border collaboration to strengthen young people’s sense of agency and belonging within their communities. Through accessible and culturally adaptable tools, Down to eARTh positions creativity not as a luxury but as a practical method for engaging with complex social issues and building peaceful, inclusive, and sustainable societies.
These objectives of the project include:
- Strengthen young people’s understanding of sustainability, human rights, creativity, and intercultural dialogue through two open-source toolkits developed and translated into seven languages.
- Build local capacity by training 14 trainers to implement the toolkits and engage educators, schools, and civil society partners across seven countries.
- Support 70 young people in co-creating art rooted in local identity and social themes, culminating in seven public art installations reaching around 1,400 community members.
- Expand the project’s reach by co-producing media content with at least 21 educational or civil society organisations to amplify youth voices.
- Foster European solidarity through monthly cross-country exchanges, biannual peer learning, shared creative processes, and four Artistic Relays connecting teams across Europe.
The project consortium for year 1 includes MasterPeace Foundation COO (The Netherlands), El Sistema Greece (Greece), and Gerador (Portugal).
