CONTEXT/BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECTThe Commission communication Rethinking Education: Investing in Skills for better socio-economic outcomes set up the purpose to sharing best practices on how to promote the creativity and innovative capacity of young people by identifying competences and skills acquired through non-formal and informal learning relevant to employability. They also stressed the need to improve and widen the recognition of non-formal learning, not just in relation to employability, for example promoting cohesion through formal education and non-formal learning, supporting young people’s innovation and creativity. The role of art and performing arts in formal and non-formal education is relevant to pursuing learning-by-doing methods, reinventing ourselves not only as a person, but also as a group, learning the art to live together through respective differences and attitudes. The project, focused on adult education intended to improve and extend the offer of high quality learning opportunities, also extending and developing educators’ competences for better outreach and improved learning outcomes. OBJECTIVES • Exchange of good practices and teaching approaches from both the Education and the Creative Sector • providing teachers/educators with tools to better respond to learning opportunities and - seek new and more engaging ways of teaching for the modernizing of curricula and find solution for inclusion of disadvantages communities • expand interpersonal relations between direct beneficiaries and between them and their local communities • Increase meaningful skills and reinforce problem solving capacity in learners • reinforce new socio-cultural perspectives in selected target groups • enhance good interactions and mutual comprehension between people from different cultures thanks to the use and practice of verbal and non-verbal communication • foster the creation of experiential learning communities and experience of social inclusion • support best practices of empowerment community and new social ecosystems • reducing social stereotypes related to social conditioning and issues • Support educators to discover and prevent healthy and learning disorders in young learners as dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia thanks to the application of performing arts languages • share good practices, professional experience and respective expertise and know-how • reinforce social empathy and kinesthetic, ideokinetic, cognitive and receptive skills in learners • investigate regarding plans for integrating cultural and creative sectors with educational sectors. The project saw the participation of 6 organizations located in 5 different countries: UK, Italy, Spain, Germany and Estonia, working at different levels with the target groups identified in the project, and able to bring the necessary expertise in order to achieve the project results.NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS: Using non-formal education and training we developed art and media skills in 18 adult learners from UK, Italy, Spain, Germany and Estonia during a workshop training in the UK. Participants were adult experts, teachers and trainers engaged in the field of formal and non-formal education and training methods, such as psychology, pedagogy and social sciences curricula, dancing and holistic methods, social affairs and support of disadvantages groups. The staff were selected according to their expertise, and the possibility to both deliver workshops and the ability to used learned techniques in local events. After the international training each country organised 2 local event with 15 people each, mainly from disadvantaged backgrounds (people with learning difficulties or people at risk of social exclusion), for a total of 150 local participants. During the local events, partners used the methods and techniques learned during the international training event.IMPACTThe project gave the participants the chance to:- reinforce experience and know-how about innovative ways of teaching and disseminate cross-sectorial methods thanks to non-formal learning;- discover new ways of practical and performing activities as result of a balanced mix of creative and holistic approach and conventional training and teaching;- broaden audience development thanks to cooperation with other European organizations and enhance knowledge about EU policies and overall objectives regarding education and training;- share experience with other actors active in the same fields of interest and employability, increasing at the same time links and connections with creative sectors.The learners in the local activities had the chance to acquire new creative and social skills to reinforce empowerment of communities, and learn new educational approaches to enhance personal and social responsibilities, change management, problem solving, self-confidence and motivation, physical and mental abilities, and so on.