{"id":11974,"date":"2026-03-28T08:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elsistema.gr\/down-to-earth\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:55:35","slug":"down-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elsistema.gr\/en\/down-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Down to eARTh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Down to eARTh<\/b> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

At its core, the project blends non-formal education, co-created artistic processes, and cross-border collaboration to strengthen young people\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

These objectives of the project include:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Strengthen young people\u2019s understanding of sustainability, human rights, creativity, and intercultural dialogue through two open-source toolkits developed and translated into seven languages.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Build local capacity by training 14 trainers to implement the toolkits and engage educators, schools, and civil society partners across seven countries.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. 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.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Expand the project\u2019s reach by co-producing media content with at least 21 educational or civil society organisations to amplify youth voices.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Foster European solidarity through monthly cross-country exchanges, biannual peer learning, shared creative processes, and four Artistic Relays connecting teams across Europe.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The project consortium for year 1 includes MasterPeace Foundation COO (The Netherlands), El Sistema Greece (Greece), and Gerador (Portugal).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-en","category-european-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsistema.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsistema.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsistema.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsistema.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsistema.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elsistema.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11975,"href":"https:\/\/elsistema.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions\/11975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsistema.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsistema.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsistema.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsistema.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}