In February 2026, Alicante, Spain became the meeting point for 26 youth workers, artists, and artivists from Ukraine and Georgia. For five intensive working days, they came together as part of the CivicArt training course — an Erasmus+ project dedicated to building the capacity of organisations in the field of art-based civic education.
The training was built around four missions: environment, human rights, intersectional dialogue, and active citizenship. Together with facilitators, participants explored these themes through creative practice: making collages, reading the city through its murals, trees, and bookshops, reflecting on human rights through personal stories and theory, practising democratic negotiation in a simulation game, and spending a full day creating artworks around the theme of togetherness and solidarity.
Over the course of the week, several original works emerged — among them a stop motion film, videos, a performance, a visual installation, and an interactive game. All works were presented at the Art Lab Show on the fourth day of the training. And something else emerged too: a community of practitioners who went home with new tools, new connections, and a clearer understanding of how art can be a genuine language of civic engagement.
The training drew on three resources developed within the project: the CivicArt Facilitators Competence Landscape, the Methodology Guide, and the Collection of Art-Based Civic Education Practices.
The full training report is available for download in our Library.
What comes next?
The week in Alicante was not an ending — it was a starting point. Participants from Ukraine and Georgia are now preparing local interventions: art-based civic education activities they will bring to their own communities and organisations in the months ahead.
At the same time, the CivicArt social media campaign is launching — bringing photographs, messages, and stories from practitioners already in action. Follow our channels on Facebook and Instagram and stay tuned for what happens next.
In February 2026, Alicante, Spain became the meeting point for 26 youth workers, artists, educators, and artivists from Ukraine and Georgia. For five intensive days,
The CivicArt project has published its first academic materials presenting experience and methodology of using art in youth civic education.
We are excited to release the CivicArt Methodology Guide — a practical, hands-on companion for youth workers, educators, artists and activists who connect civic learning
On September 12–13, 2025, the consortium partners gathered in Alicante, Spain, for an interim steering committee meeting. Representatives from Ukraine, Georgia, Germany, and Spain came
The CivicArt team has prepared a collection of good practices in artivism, which we invite you to explore in the CivicArt Library.
This block of activities is aimed at raising awareness of the role of art and artivism in the development of civic education, demonstrating successful examples of artivism, and inspiring the use of project products.
The meeting will be aimed at formalizing the international CivicArt Alliance network. The event brings together representatives of the Consortium and their partners, including representatives of formal education institutions, artists, and youth NGOs that participated in the project activities. The total number of participants is 20 persons.
Local activities are scheduled for the first half of 2026. Participants of the study visit and training course will have the opportunity to practice the newly developed competencies in their communities.
Estimated timeframe – April-June 2026. The campaign is part of the follow-up training activities. Participants will be invited to create digital artistic content that contains an educational component.
The estimated date of the training is February 2026. The call for participants will be announced in October 2025. The training will aim to strengthen the capacity of youth workers from Ukraine and Georgia to implement non-formal civic education activities through artistic tools.
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