University leads international research project around positive impact of creative arts on refugees

  15th March 2023

University of Gloucestershire is a lead partner in an international project aiming to show how creative arts can promote integration and wellbeing among marginalised groups of young people, including refugees, asylum seekers and the homeless.

The University’s MA Photography team collaborated on the Arts Hubs for Youth project – co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union – with the Social Action and Innovation Centre in Greece, Artit in Greece and the UK, the Sarajevo Meeting of Cultures in Bosnia-Herzogovinia, and Hub Nicosia in Cyprus.

Each partner carried out research in their own country to find out how creative arts projects, such as photography, graphic design, fashion shows and theatre, had been used successfully to provide refugees and asylum seekers with ways of expressing themselves. Find out more about this story on the University website.

Art by Andreas Zouganistas, Greece