MEDiterranean Youth for Creative Impact (2025 – 2027)
The MedYCI project addresses educational disparities, digital gap, and high youth unemployment in the Mediterranean region.
200 young people from Turkey, France, Spain, Tunisia and Egypt will be trained by co-developing and applying innovative learning methods that foster engagement and strengthen professional skills – digital, creative and analytical – while addressing Mediterranean challenges.
MedYCI launches a call for applications for Mediterranean young people in audiovisual field
Selected participants will join an innovative learning programme combining audiovisual storytelling, digital creativity, and critical thinking, through workshops, peer exchange, and experimentation in MedYCI Studios. Deadline to apply: 27/03/2026
MedYCI is launching a call for applications for 200 young people aged 18–30 from eligible regions from France, Spain, Türkiye, Tunisia, and Egypt.
Don´t miss this opportunity and apply now.
For more information, please check the attached document.
Project Partners
Les Têtes de l'Art (Lead Partner) 
Centre International de Développement Pour La Gouvernance Local Innovante(PP1) Country
Tunisia
Region
Tunis
Anna Lindh Foundation(PP2) Country
Egypt
Pi Youth Association(PP3) 
European Institute of the Mediterranean(PP4)
The framing around “Mediterranean Youth for Creative Impact” is what caught my attention here — specifically the audiovisual focus. That is a deliberately narrow entry point, and in my experience working with young applicants in third-level admissions, specificity like that actually increases uptake rather than limiting it. Young people respond better to “this is exactly for someone like you” than to broad eligibility criteria.
One thing worth considering for the selection process: the 2025–2027 window sits against a backdrop of genuinely uneven youth employment conditions across the Mediterranean basin and, curiously, across other EU-adjacent regions too. I have been thinking lately about how youth unemployment data in different corners of Europe — places you might not immediately associate with Mediterranean programming — can quietly shape who actually applies for these opportunities. Economic pressure at home is a real filter on participation, even in well-funded schemes.
The Interreg framework is solid, and the partner geography looks well distributed. But I would be curious whether the project coordinators have built any flexibility into the application process to account for applicants coming from contexts where digital infrastructure or prior production experience is less available — because the audiovisual field, more than most, rewards prior access. Is that a dimension the consortium has discussed?