Description: Hi8us Projects was the lead partner in Inclusion Through Media (ITM), a £6.5m EC-funded Equal development partnership. Many ITM projects which were delivered by Hi8us took the form of partnerships with external organisations such as universities, independent production companies and sector support agencies.

Description: We had not worked on the international stage before ITM, but Equal provided us with an exciting opportunity to establish new links with like-minded organisations across Europe. Our main project was DigiTales, a pan-European digital storytelling initiative involving people making short films about their lives.

Description: We have a long standing interest in the suitability of performance measures used by policy makers and funding agencies to assess the value of projects which have received assistance. When it came to understanding the value of creative activity with young people, we felt our work was undervalued by an over emphasis on easily calculated performance indicators.