This August, the city of Kielce, Poland, became the meeting point for the partner organisations behind WALL — Working with Art to Lead and Learn, a new project bringing art-based, non-formal education methods to youth work across Europe. Representatives from IRARU, Amigos de Europa, Craftopia, 167bStreet and Regional Volunteer Center (coordinator) came together to take part in a hands-on gathering where the partnership put its own methodology to the test before rolling it out

On April 30, 2026, the Poiesis project stepped outside its usual pilot-workshop settings and into one of Vienna's major cultural institutions. IRARU, the Austrian coordinator of Poiesis, was invited together with LEFÖ — a Viennese association supporting migrant women — to take part in the exhibition of the Vienna Latina consortium at the Wien Museum, alongside several other Latin American organisations. A collaboration months in the making The invitation was the result of a c

Between 2024 and 2026, three European organisations — IRARU (Austria/Spain), Creative Art Farm in Italy (CAFI), and the Alba Eglesia Foundation (Romania) — worked together on Poiesis: Expressive Arts for Youths, a project funded through the EU's Erasmus+ programme (project code 2024-1-AT01-KA210-YOU-000250426). Poiesis aimed to promote the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities and to improve their mental and emotional well-being through Expressive Arts: drawing,