VJland aims at supporting the innovative practice of VJing in Europe, to provide youth workers with new digital tools for social inclusion and to engage youngsters with fewer opportunities, refugees in particular, in VJing workshops and activities. VJland consists in 2 trainings, one in Czech Republic and one in Turkey, designed for social workers and young artists to learn how to use VJing for social change and work with troubled youngsters and young refugees!VJing is the art of manipulating and animating digitalized visuals to create a live performance, the same way that DJing is the art of selecting and manipulating digitalized audio to create a live concert. VJs create and play with digital images in real time, projecting them in specific spaces in synchronization to music and/or dance. This results in a live multimedia performance that can include music, actors, dancers and art installation. VJing is a ‘total art form’ that encompasses music/sound, visuals, digital tools, a site-specific installation and interaction between artist, audience and space. Our main objective is to teach our participants how to use VJing as an educational tool for young people, especially refugees, to think about space appropriation as a way of inclusion, self-expression and social commentary.To achieve our goal, we plan to bring together a group of 20 youth workers and young artists from 6 countries, train them to the innovative digital technique of VJing in Czech Republic, and then give them the possibility of using it as a tool for social inclusion with young refugees in Turkey. The first training in Czech Republic will focus on a beneficiary group of youngsters degrading public spaces with graffiti. By learning VJing and developing VJing initiatives, the youth workers and artists participants will offer those youngsters a legal and harmless way to channel their creativity and engage them in citizen participation by creative appropriation of public spaces. To engage this target group and give our participants a chance to apply their newly acquired competences during the training, we plan for them to animate a workshop for youngsters of the art school of Karlovy Vary. This will also create and strengthen cooperation between formal and non-formal education sectors in Czech Republic. Then, a few months later, a second training in Turkey will give the opportunity to our participants to develop and implement a longer workshop with youngsters from Syria, Iraq and Kurdish communities, suffering from social exclusion in Mardin. By leading the participants and their workshop groups to create and present a VJing performance in Karlovy Vary and in Mardin, we also hope to participate in creating free public activities for the local community; engaging rural development by using local spaces as performing spaces; helping youngsters developing their own citizen initiatives; building a community feeling by using visual elements from the city and its inhabitants in a performance created and performed by its youngsters, helping to develop the relationship between youngsters and their city and spreading the multidisciplinary artistic practice of VJing!The specific objectives of the training are as follows:- Learn the technique of VJing and its use as a tool for social change in youth work;- Provide participants with an opportunity to share best practices on using digital and performance art for empowering young people that are already being implemented by participating organizations;- Explore the potential of VJing for engaging young people at risk of social exclusion, especially young refugees;- Discover methods of ensuring long-lasting social impact of youth projects based on VJing;- Establish a network of like-minded individuals interested in further cooperation on the topical area of the project.Through non-formal learning methods, the participants will lead workshops for each other, share skills and foster their personal and professional development. This will strengthen their key competences, enrich their set of methods and tools, consequently improving the quality of education, training and youth work throughout Europe. It will also help them to develop a sense of European citizenship and identity. They will develop their networks. They will be given the chance to start developing new projects together. Globally, our project aims to develop the quality of youth work, strengthen the cooperation between art, formal and non-formal education sectors and the labor market as well as supporting and developing a youth policy based on knowledge and research. At the level of the partner organizations, we intend to improve the capacities, attractiveness and the international dimension of organizations, so that they can offer activities and programs best suited to the needs of youngsters in Europe and elsewhere. In this, our goals are consistent with those of the Erasmus+ program and mobility projects.