Connect_App

Breaking through barriers

TYA must work hard to compete with the wide range of other cultural offers aimed at young people. This is particularly serious in the digitalised world, where new attractive products appear every day. We will use this appeal of digital technology to excite young people by developing ConnectApp. This smart-phone based digital application plays a crucial role in the implementation of our goals.

The connectup partner Theatr Gen Theatr, the Welsh National Theatre, is using an app, which translates its plays into English or Welsh on the smartphone (spoken and as written text). “Sibrwd” – Welsh for “whisper” – is an app in its beta stage. connectup wants to build on the experiences of Theatr Gen with “Sibrwd” and develop it into ConnectApp.

ConnectApp, as a very practicable tool,

  • has an impact on each connectup production: Spoken or written text on stage can be followed in the respective translations either spoken (with earphones) or written
  • makes productions in foreign language understandable for young people and reduces prejudices among teachers (internationalization of festivals as a new business model)
  • provides innovative solutions to existing barriers such as blindness or deafness (strengthens the “missionary approach”)
  • allows young people to engage with theatre on an immediate, personal level in their social media groups (marketing support) and to give direct feedback such as smiley-based evaluation etc.
  • allows direct communication with young people (without any detour via teachers)
  • provides theatres with a reliable evaluation module (which will also be used for research purposes by the two universities).

Through practical experimentation, research and trialling ConnectApp will lead to an international market readiness during the project period. As ConnectApp it will be internet-based and thus be expanded as a marketing and research tool. For sure theatre makers from the whole of Europe will discover new ways to use the full potential of the App and make it an integral part of new productions.

Derick Murdoch
Creatice Director Galactig

Arwel Gruffydd
Artistic Director

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Union of Diversity

ConnectUp sets in place an international cultural initiative for the target group 12+ in order to counteract the process of increasing social and cultural division across Europe. To achieve the aim of cultural inclusion it is essential to provide opportunities for young people to actively engage with different nationalities, cultures and social groups and to remain open to other people and life experiences.

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LEADING ORGANISATION

The University of Agder (Faculty of Fine Arts) is an internationally oriented university in Norway aiming to be on the cutting edge of innovation, education and research.

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ConnectUp is a larger scale cooperation project under the EU Culture Funding Stream Creative Europe for the four-year-period 12/2019 till 11/2023. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.