<< Background >>RECULT wants to intervene to support two sectors that are being particularly hit by the social and economic restrictions due to COVID 19: the creative art sector and social care services. In order to support these two sectors, RECULT will Work on new methods and solutions for linking them and using creativity for enhancing social inclusion; and by providing digital know how and tools facilitating for a smoother switch between offline and online teaching.We want to contribute to the resilience of creative and cultural training by providing new tools, new functions and new ways for staying connected, while increasing the access for all.Being aware of the importance of face to face connections and co-creation possibilities, RECULT will suggest a method that will join community based art creation with transnational exchange and co-creation (in offline and online modes). In this way we contribute to create common values and increase civic engagement, understanding and participation.We want to address the needs for new knowledge, educational tools, and ideas on how to engage again with learners with migration background. We want to regain professional and artistic intercultural potential of associating locals with migrant communities.We want to develop and extend visual art methodology towards migrant groups and embed green education into the artistic methodology. We want to address the need to guidecareers, especially for groups which will be faced to innovate their career paths after the pandemic. We address the need for a more fruitful communication between generations and culture, as there are not many digital/blended resources and tools developed for educators to effectively approach families with refugee, migrant and cultural minority backgrounds. RECULT wants to develop hybrid or blended methods in order to stay connected with learners with migrant backgrounds and to become flexible switching between online and offline if needed. We learned during our previous work that art is a great container to work non-verbal in intercultural settings, however there is a lack of digital tools and methods to do this from a distance. The pandemic also demonstrated that many migrants had no or little technical expertise to use digital tools effectively for educational purposes or had language/cultural difficulties to effectively communicate with supporting organisations. Therefore, there is a need to fill this gap by creating collaborative spaces to facilitate and support the process of coming back to “normality” of an after-pandemic environment via cultural workshops and positive interactions. Our interest lies in development of methodology based on art and creativity that would facilitate communication between educators, artists and people with different cultural backgrounds.<< Objectives >>The main objective of RECULT is to use the power of art, creativity and visual education to support the (re)integration of people with refugee, migrant, or cultural minority backgrounds into their local communities and to find new opportunities for reinforcing the resilience of the creative sector. RECULT will focus on teaching visual art creation. While each form of artistic creation is exposed to crisis for different reasons, visual art creation are facing the contradiction between staying connected to society and to the physical environment to find inspirations for creativity. To obtain this goal, new tools, new activities are needed. RECULT will thus improve the competencies of adult educator working in cultural/creative trainings. RECULT will support the social inclusion of one of the most vulnerable groups touched by social restrictions, people with refugee, migrant and cultural minority backgrounds and will help to lower barriers and support inclusion and diversity in education.The RECULT method will include a complex blended learning process that will use visual creativity for understanding the complexity of someone’s cultural identity and allow the participants to communicate with each other through the creation of images and art objects by reusing and re-imagining the images, techniques and materials linked to home and host cultures, forming their complex cultural backgrounds.Being aware of the importance of face to face connections and co-creation possibilities, RECULT will suggest a method that will join community based art creation with transnational exchange and co-creation (in offline and online modes). In this way we contribute to create common values and increase civic engagement, understanding and participation. When the project is over, we want that people with refugee, migrant and minority backgrounds assistance for increasing their social integration and lowering the barriers for active participation, that the groups gain experience in co-creation through digital education,reinforce their active citizenship, and contribution to local cultural and social life.We want them to rediscover their cultural backgrounds, learn critical thinking and visual creativity skills and in this way obtain new professional opportunities.We want artists, teachers, educators, trainers, and social workers to learn new teaching skills and methods linked to visual and digital education, blended learning, experimental learning, visual and digital storytelling, but as well outreach to learners and message building- We want to increase the teaching with co-creation and design thinking approaches and keep lifelong learning innovative and attractive.<< Implementation >>RECULT will consist out of input, reflection, creation and a sharing phase based on the principles of creation of innovative tools for enhancing the role of visual creativity and education in social cohesion;(Re)connecting social, cultural and environmental sustainability and integration for enhancing social integration and implementing innovative forms of online learning including video tutorials and blended learning.The whole project cycle is oriented on work packages, milestones, staff trainings, intellectual outputs, transnational meetings and multiplier events. The PMI activities are structured by the work packages and specific milestones.The workpackages are:A1: Project Management and ImplementationTask 1. Project Management - CRNTask 2: Impact and Needs Assessment - Stando, ARM-BGTask 3: Quality Control and Evaluation ASNOR, KoopkulturA2: Extracting and sharing skills and knowledge: COTA and ARM-BGA3: Video Course Building: COTA and ASNORA4: RECULT Blended Method and Curriculum: CRN and KoopkulturA5: Dissemination: Stando and KoopkulturMilestones are:November 2021: Start of the project, kick off meeting in Berlin. Start of A1, A2, A5, Jan 2022: Online SC meeting; 1st blended workshopMarch 2022: 2nd blended workshop - onlineApril 2022: 2nd TPM meeting NicosiaMai 2022: 3rd blended workshop, - onlineOct 2022: 3rd TPM, Paris, 1st progress reportSep2022: Online transnational seminar - dissemination event, end of A2Oct2022 Online SC meeting, start A32022 Dec2022: Joint staff training in Bari2022 Jan 2023: SC online meeting, Start A4March 2023: 4th TPM, Bari, 2nd Progress reportMay 2023 SC online meetingJune 2023: Blended joint staff training - online + ParisSept2023: SC online meeting,Nov 2023: SC online meeting, end A3Jan/Feb 2024: local multiplier events, end A4Feb 2024: Final transnational dissemination event and Final TPM, Sofia, Final ReportRECULT will have 5 Transnational meetings offline and further meeting online.Each meeting will deal with:- project management,- evaluation and impact measurement results and indicators,- revision of the RECULT online platform and discussion about the smart practices gathered- the target groups, activities and practices of the hosting partner and of local associated partnersRECULT will have additionally learning and teaching activities based on three elements:1- a series of online blended workshops (supporting knowledge and community building at the beginning of the project, and part of the co-creation of the online platform)2- a Co-design video tutorials training, which will help to co-create some of the elements of the video micro-sessions.3-a blended review training, lasting one month, with a 3-day LTTA embedded. The aim of the learning process is to test the RECULT curriculum- It will consist out of 5 phases, an online joint training, offline local peer-workshops, the LTTA, an offline local piloting and a final online workshop.The project will end with a series of 3 local and 1 transnational muliplier events.<< Results >>RECULT 's methodology is responding by elaborating innovative online and blended learning tools for teaching social inclusion through art creation.As a result, we will create a learning tool that will support the organisations facilitating the integration of third country nationals, refugees, minorities or people of multiple identities even when social distancing is imposed.The workshops, the platform and the trainings will reinforce awareness of environmental issues, and will provide a global vision on the connectivity between people, cultures andenvironment.The RECULT online blended method will be be based on three main project results that will be prepared during the project cycle.a) RECULT interactive platform, and tool mapping the experiences used for visual b) a set of video micro-lessons to be used as learning tools or independent DIY videosc) the RECULT blended learning curriculum, published as a handbook.We want to create a strong central community around the RECULT method, thus 50 people with migrant, refugee and minority backgrounds, 20 trainers, educators, artists and social workers trained during the workshops and the joint staff trainings will become our ambassadors.Last but not least, we want to create a set of recommendations for policy makers and teachers on the use of visual education and innovative online tools and methods for reinforcing social inclusion.

The artist within – Applied eMOTION was a long-term project with the aim of sharing best practices between sectors and methods connected to art expressions. We invited institutions, helping professional colleagues to develop their entrepreneurship and creative skills by using different artistic tools in individual and group work.During the years we managed to learn about and synthesise methods using different modalities of expression in helping professions. First we shared our best practices and approaches and we researched ways of possible integration into different helping fields. Then we started to develop curriculums in formal and non-formal education along a continuous discussion and debate based on our diverse realities and practices. It reached the moment when we tested them in three levels, involving university personnel and students and already practising helping professionals too. Furthermore, along the process we researched, noted and built on the reasons of burn-out in helping professions and the possibilities for innovation, entrepreneur skills and educating creative learning attitudes.The transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices with the partners resulted in a greater understanding and responsiveness to social, psychological and cultural diversity of the target groups. In addition to that, professional development and sectorial cooperation was reached at organisational, local, national, and European levels. Our findings were recorded in a publication and a toolkit, which is an extra bonus on to this kind of project. We found this very important to note and share our results with all working in the field of helping professions, being part of formal or non-formal education. We foresee the next step bringing these results to more specific groups and more detailed educational plans along new aims.Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence and through different ways of expression (especially having an integrative approach) we can work with the problems and lead them to another level of understanding.We reached our objectives to•Share and discuss methodologies•Skill, competence development of helping professionals•Re-developed methodology based on outcomes•Professional networking•Sectorial cooperation•Promotion of the use of art in formal and non-formal activities of helping professionsWe ran different activities to do so:I. International meetings (only for partners)II.ATrainings to share best practices (open for helping professionals)•Training I. “Integral expression and dance therapy training”, Hungary February 28 – March 8. 2015.•Training II. “Storytelling and cartoons”, Italy June 28 Sunday – July 6. 2015.•Training III. “Humour strategies in helping professions”, Germany 3-11. October 2015.II.BAll trainings were followed by local pilot activities. The participants, as a follow-up to the courses, designed and ran workshops, events integrating and adapting the shared method into their work. The results were published and shared among the partnership, and used to create a new curriculum for the last training.II.C Training to develop and test new curriculums•Training IV. “Integration of the methods and piloting curriculums”, Poland, 2-10. April 2016.III. Research and publication on our results•burn out in helping professions•creative methodologies and innovation•recommendation on the use of art methods in helping professions•curriculums and learning outcomesPartnersAssociation on Refugees and Migrants, ARM-BG (www.arm-bg.blogspot.com), BulgariaSpołeczna Akademia Nauk, SAN (www.spoleczna.pl), PolandComparative Research Network e.V., CRN (www.comparative-research.net), GermanyTheater Vision e.V., (http://theater-vision.de), GermanyEURO-NET (www.synergy-net.info), ItalyHungarian Association for Expressive Arts and Dance Therapy, IKTE (www.ikte.hu), HungaryOur project website: http://www.theartistwithin.eu/Online shared folder for attached documents: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtFIY0-TSvLqgoNXwQ8YqI91pgglOA

The application context of the project involves collaboration between different countries of the European Community such as Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Ireland, Lebanon and Spain which have distinct school systems and career guidance and training. The project aims to obtain the widest possible picture of the scholastic vision and post-school orientation and training in the different national systems so that we could arrive at a transnational identification of the knowledge needs profiles that are taking in account the most relevant approaches of each individual country and accommodate creatively the best practices of other partner countries. _The project has its primary objective the development of a software platform able to profile people so that they can have clear and concise indications which allow them to make a choice as close as possible to their way of being.There are 7 participants:- CNA (National Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Enterprises)- OLTRE s.r.l. school/Institute/Educational centre – Adult education Italia;- AMADEUS VEREIN FUR TRANSNATIONALE BILDUNG School/Institute/Educational centre – Vocational Training (tertiary level) Austria;- EUROPEAN CAREER EVOLUTION school/Institute/Educational centre – Vocational Training (tertiary level) Irlanda;- EUROCIVIS non-governmental organisation/association Spagna;- ARM-BG (Association on Refugees & Migrants – Bulgaria), research, educational, art-in-action & development NGO;- LDN (Lebanese Development Network)The project partners will interface with each other so that the people audience to be profiled is as broad and heterogeneous as possible, so that the data collected can be very focused on the demands of the world of work & employment. The dissemination and diffusion of project obtained results will be carried out using methods to maximize their impact and reach new audiences by making maximum use of social channels and adopting a balanced mix of online and offline communication tools: websites, workshops, seminars, conferences, press releases, audiovisual and multimedia products, public events, contacts and existing networks throughout the duration of the project. The steps for dissemination to be conducted will be:BEFORE the start of the project: - elaboration of a dissemination and exploitation plan;- definition of expected impact and products;- determination of of modes of dissemination and exploitation activities and type of recipients & target groups;- assignment to the budget dissemination activities and adequate resources.DURING the project:- contact the appropriate media at the local and/or regional & international level;- conduct regular activities such as information sessions, trainings, demonstrations, peer reviews;- assessment of project impact on the target groups;- involvement of other interested parties in transfering the results to the end-users.AFTER the project- development of ideas for future cooperation;- evaluation of results and impact;- contact with the relevant media;- contact of political decision-makers if relevant.The expected results will act on the school and post-school education systems so that it is possible to have an alignment of the training towards the specific demands of the labor market. This project, if properly developed, could help the dialogue between the different Ministries of Education and Labour Ministries of the individual nations, to achieve an alignment of knowledge and skills of the people that allows access to the work world at a community level and not anymore local