Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027: Discussion
Ms Katie Lowry:
We are a two-headed hydra - my colleague and I are conferring. I will speak to the Chairman's point in respect of children and young people in schools and promotion. I do not have the details to hand but a significant number of projects supported under the Creative Europe culture strand engage actively with children and young people in schools and other settings. We referenced the READ ON project in west Cork. That was delivered on the ground. The project rationale related to young teenage boys having stopped reading. It was about how to address that on a pan-European level. The West Cork Chamber Music Festival partnered with Cork county library to deliver a programme of events in schools. There are numerous projects such as that. It is to be hoped that the projects are planting seeds among that constituency.
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