"The partnership project ""Unnecessary - useful and aesthetic. Creative approach to recycling ""is a part of an idea of sustainable development and lifelong learning. The project assumes socially inclusive activities, promotion of proper behavior in relation to the environment and preservation of the natural balance. The project is also devoted to the contribution of citizens to environmental protection and the creative use of waste in art, art therapy and to improving the ecological awareness of adults, including those at risk of marginalization (disabled, senior citizens , migrants and refugees). The partnership consists of 7 organizations: 3 organizations from leading countries in environmental protection: Austria and Sweden as well as organizations from Portugal, Italy, Croatia and Poland - the countries falling behind in this ranking. The main objective of the project is to raise the level of educational qualifications and the target group will be educators working with adults, including those at risk of marginalization. Our project involves the following goals: developing cooperation and innovation of educators working to raise ecological awareness and creative activity of adults; raising and broadening the professional qualifications of people working with adults; dissemination of art-therapy methods of work among staff working with people from communities at risk of marginalization and people working for these environments as well as increasing the chances of developing individual educators participating in the project; expanding knowledge and skills in the care of the natural environment and related to the subject of the natural environment social responsibility as well as expanding cultural competences and developing the creativity of employees and volunteer partners working with partner organizations; increasing the awareness of adults, including disadvantaged people, regarding the impact of pro-ecological behavior on the natural environment, health and well-being. As a result of the provided training, thematic organization of conferences, workshop classes and open demonstrations of working methods, the planned results will include: increase of professional skills of educators in the field of working with adults, including those at risk of marginalization and people working for these communities; acquiring new educators and improving existing psychological, interpersonal and methodological skills in working with a group, necessary during animating educational classes with the use of art-therapy methods; increasing the chances of individual development and raising the self-esteem of educators participating in the project as well as employees acting for the benefit of the at risk of marginalization. The recipients will be indirect participants in the project dissemination activities at local and international level. They will be both educators and recipients led by educators' classes. Around 1000 people will be involved in the project. The result of partner visits will be getting to know the conditions of work related to the same field in other EU countries and learning about the methods of work and their implementation, which gives the opportunity to impact each of the partner organizations. In the project, we are planning to deal with sustainable consumption and create a separate publication about it - a handbook containing a program of two-day workshops ""Upcycle of used electrical and electronic equipment"". The aim of the workshop is to raise awareness of the available natural resources in electrical and electronic equipment and the need for proper processing of e-waste. A durable permanent result of the project will be a generally available project website, photos and description methods of work on the websites of partner organizations and the handbook. The results of the project will be placed on the platform of European Commision EPALE. In this way, we would like to assure our design a special European dimension of education in the field of open educational resources."

"' To make Europe competitive, cohesive and resilient in the future, we now need to invest in people: in education and training, skills, creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation, and health in the European Union,' reads the European Commission proposal for 2021-2027. In response to this appeal, we have decided to create a ""European partnership for skills development and social inclusion through creativity and the arts"". The implementation of this project will contribute to eliminating the problems of marginalized groups (people with disabilities, seniors, migrants) and their social exclusion, and help them improve their key competences. These people, sometimes with problems of an emotional or psychological nature, often only by various art forms (music, art, dance, theatre) are able to open up. Art opens access to our interior: emotions, needs, fears. This is especially important in the times of the pandemic that all of Europe is currently struggling with. The pandemic seriously hindered this part of society both in terms of access to culture and art, as well as active participation in its creation. Counteracting the effects of these difficulties is therefore particularly important now. In our project, we want to train educators working with groups at risk of marginalization, so that they can show their students the way to active and creative participation in culture and art, and thus improve their position in society, including the labour market.The aim of the project is to develop cooperation and exchange of experiences of educators for the creative activity of the above-mentioned people at risk of exclusion, as well as to raise and expand the professional qualifications of people working with them; disseminating art therapy methods of work; increasing digital competences among staff working with people from communities at risk of marginalization and people working for the above-mentioned environments, as well as increasing the opportunities for individual development of educators and volunteers cooperating with partner organizations; obtaining new and improving the psychological, interpersonal and methodological skills necessary in working with people at risk of exclusion. The aforementioned groups will be participants of workshops and demonstrations of methods of work.The indirect recipients will be participants of the project dissemination activities at the local, national and international level. They will be both educators and people with whom educators work. International cooperation will, to a much greater extent, guarantee the acquisition of fuller and richer knowledge, and will also allow each partner to learn about solutions, programs and methods that are worth imitating in other countries. Their implementation will enrich the education of adults and change the perspective of individual partners to the currently used methods of work. The partnership consists of organizations specialized in working with specific groups of vulnerable groups: senior citizens, people with mental disabilities, deaf and blind people or immigrants and refugees, in Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Israel and Poland. We have planned 5 partnership meetings to monitor all aspects of the project and training workshops in all partner countries, as a result of which educators will be equipped with new skills and creative forms of working with people at risk of exclusion. About 1,500 people will participate in the project. The result of the project will be published in an e-broshure."

<< Objectives >>In A Theatrical Museum Experience (ATME) museums and theatre companies - will provide learning programs in non-formal adult learning- will deliver learning materials- will train educators - will deliver and disseminate results- will set up up-skilling pathways for actors, actresses, and drama pedagogues- will inspire museum staff to create interactive and immersive experiencesExperiencing a museum is creating a new dimension for an exhibition and is an amazing way to learn.<< Implementation >>The purpose of this project is to teach the target groups in an original and captivating way about the exhibition or the museum, about history, about art. Thus, creating curiosity and learning opportunities. The experience lowers the barriers and enthuses a larger audience for museums and the theatre.The project wants to achieve a wider use of museums and theatres as a space for learning, far away from the common “classroom”. In this space, the method applied is learning through experiencing.<< Results >>Learning results are more effective when the learner immerses in the environment. This experience lowers the barriers and enthuses a larger audience for the museum and the theatre. The project wants to achieve individual growth and development through new ways of thinking and looking, and strives to contribute to an inclusive society.

"Central to the project was the question of how to reach those remote from education – i.e., people who for whatever reason have had little or no formal adult education - to improve their participation in further education and to design and provide low-threshold learning opportunities. Studies show that only about 10% of the low-qualified participate in further education – among graduates of universities, the participation quote is four times as high. Education experts agree that being remote from education is not due solely to the individuals themselves. Often the institutions, too, are distant from the target audience. This is why experts suggest outreach educational guidance/counselling as well as further alternative approaches to increase participation in further education.Our project ON THE MOVE had its foundations in European Policies like the Europe 2020 strategy with its goals of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Lifelong learning and the development of skills are important factors in this strategy.Aims/ObjectivesThe goals of this project has been to identifying and disseminating successful approaches improving the integration and support of the educationally remote. With this project, staff in guidance/counselling and educational institutions in Europe learned about alternative approaches (predominantly of the outreach kind) bringing educationally remote and low-qualified people to further education and will implement these in their countries. This project and its results increase the chances of the educationally remote to find (better) work, as this is directly correlated with the level of qualification. Results/Outcomes and impact- Research from all project partners on suitable best practice examples in Europe for reaching educationally remote people. This also includes previously conducted European projects, whose results we will disseminate further. - Assessment matrix which was used to evaluate the identified guidance/counselling or education projects. - Website including an Open Educational Resource with 32 projects of low threshold learning possibilities and outreach approaches from different European countries. The site is available in all partner languages except Swedish. - A professional publication which contains 32 descriptions of the identified best practice examples. The portraits include hints which enable the implementation of low-threshold learning possibilities and outreach educational guidance or other alternative approaches to reaching the educationally remote at other institutions, too. - 6 Videos in which we give an insight in selected best practice projects.- In our main product, the best practice publication, we also included general recommendations for the implementation of the outreach approach and the use of ""easy language"".- For internal use we produced and regularly updated a dissemination and a quality plan, draft a project management handbook and a project agreement.The dissemination and implementation of our identified best practice examples in outreach educational guidance and low-threshold learning opportunities increase the possibility for more organisations and professionals to adopt these strategies in their services and therefore our target groups - those remote from education - profit from better access to learning opportunities and guidance/counselling.ActivitiesDesk research in 19 European countries to identify appropriate projects + assessment groups consisting of approx. 5 people active in the area of further education, who contributed to the evaluation of the project examples using an assessment matrix. Selection of 32 best practice projects from more than 100 identified projects. Writing portraits and collecting all projects in a professional publication.Towards the end of the project, each partner organised a public event and invited educational institutions, representatives of charities, those active in adult and further education, representatives of umbrella organisations, political decision-makers, representatives of the press, and everyone who is interested in the subject. Each event reached at least 30 people resulting in 200+ participants. During these events, the best practice approaches that were identified and developed were presented and the publication was distributed.Participating organisations:team training (coordinator), Germany: provider of adult education and social work, mainly for unemployedVytautas Magnus University, LithuaniaStichting De Regenboog Groep, The Netherlands: NGO committed to people with social problemsSuperact, United Kingdom: Community Interest Company with key areas in community development, health & wellbeing and employability & skills developmentPromidea, Italy: Social Cooperative of services for people at risk of marginalizationNorrköpings stadsmuseum, Sweden: historical museum run by the municipality of NorrköpingBFI Tirol Bildungs GmbH, Austria: vocational training institute"

The project ‘Transnational Approaches and Multi-Perspective Methods in History Education’ investigates transnational, multi-perspective approaches to European history and aims at fostering history learning in Europe by comparing different views of the shared experience of European development and events.The project will promote transnational presentations of history that include multiple identity constructs or indeed make them possible for the first time. The European Union is a historical ‘transnational’ idea. The project will develop best-practice models and make them available for history teaching in schools and adult education so as to open up a multi-perspective approach to complex historical events. The aim is to work towards a narrative of our common European history that retains unified and differing memories but allows a re-interpretation in particular of the ‘winner/loser’ dichotomies, given the central role of this and the perpetrator/victim perspective in history teaching.There is an increasing tendency, not only in Europe, to return to nationalistic ideas, which have an impact on democratic principles, attitudes to participation and integration, anti-discrimination and antisemitism. The project looks at how sociopolitical events in European history are presented from different national perspectives but also from the perspective of ethnic minorities and investigates new multidimensional forms of communication.But how can history be interpreted in a transnational network like the European Union? How can the stories of minorities, persons with a migration or refugee background and with limited potential for participation, be incorporated into a European narrative? How can an understanding for a transnational view of history be fostered in persons who are focused on nationalistic narratives and images?As we believe that an open approach to history is a better reflection of the context of many people in Europe, we would like to develop academic methods, formal, non-formal and informal approaches to education and artistic expression into a diverse portfolio of teaching and learning materials for adult education, education theory, initial and advanced teacher training and the teaching of art and culture.We will study historical narratives by the majority society, for example in schoolbooks, and compare them with the narratives of eyewitnesses from different nationalities, ethnic minorities or marginalised groups in society. As history is conveyed not only through written and oral narratives but also through pictures and other visual media, the focus is on visual forms of communication – a documentary play that will enrich the theatre world of Timisoara, an exhibition in Konavle and a video documentary.All best-practice examples, detailed descriptions of all methods and all other products of the strategic partnership will be clearly described and available on the digital method platform. The project language is English. The project partners come from Austria (2), Germany, Belgium, Romania, Sweden, Poland and Croatia.The partner organizations are:University of Klagenfurt, AT (coordination)Research Centre for the History of Minorities, ATSprachendienst Konstanz, DEEU WAREHOUSE, BEAsociatia Solidart, RONorrköpings Stadsmuseum, SEInstytut Tolerancji w Łódźi, PLMuseums and Galleries of Konavle, HR