RE-CONSTRUCT: Life & Mind together Erasmus Project

Project Title

RE-CONSTRUCT: Life & Mind together

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Post-conflict/post-disaster rehabilitation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The project “RE-CONSTRUCT: Life & Mind together” is a strategic partnership project in which 5 organizations from 5 European countries (Romania, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland), that are working in the field of adult education, develop a psychological support program for the crisis period caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and are facilitating the reconstruction of adult life on a personal, family, professional and social level. This goal is achieved through the following specific objectives:
O1. Improving the coping and personal reconstruction, professional, family and social coping skills, after the Covid-19 pandemic, of at least 300 adults from 5 European countries (Romania, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Poland), during at least 6 months . The goal will be achieved by developing a program of psychological intervention in emergency situations (with adaptation for the period of an emergency and for the post-crisis period), in the form of a mobile application that helps reducing anxiety, increase the initiative for healthy restructuring of lifestyle, development of decision-making skills and inclusion of prevention mechanisms in the field of physical, mental, emotional and relational health, as a priority in the daily routine.
O2. Improving the capacity of the specialists in adult education and those in the field of mental health, to provide systematized and monitored psychological support in crisis situations worldwide. This objective will be achieved by developing an algorithm for psychological intervention in crisis and post-crisis, in specialized terms, with recommendations adapted to different socio-economic contexts and different target groups (including people with disabilities), a program disseminated through a platform web with materials in 6 languages ​​(English, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish).
O3. Increasing the capacity of 5 non-governmental organizations in the field of non-formal adult education, from 5 European countries (Romania, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland) to provide immediate psychological support and to support civil society in reconstruction following a crisis situation , such as a pandemic or other situation that creates extensive losses. This objective also aims to increase the capacity to train volunteers, not only informally, but also through psycho-professional support so that they can cope with the situation and can help those in need.
During the 24 months of the project, the following intellectual products will be developed:
1. Psychological support curricula in disaster situations – a needs analysis of the population of the 5 European countries, together with a description of the psychological, professional and social effects of the pandemic and an intervention program through which those working in the field of adult education facilitate people’s adaptation to a new lifestyle, in which they reduce the risk of developing generalized anxiety, depression or other disorders associated with crisis situations and at the same time to develop mental and emotional habits for prevention in terms of physical, mental, emotional and relational health.
2. RE-CONSTRUCT Digital Toolkit – is a collection of IT resources that includes a mobile application for Android system, in English, and which represents an intervention program (self-applicable) for a period of 6 months, which results in life planning in a way that the crisis situation (pandemic) is healthyly integrated in the life history of the adult, and that he learns to make adaptive decisions for the reconstruction of life from a personal, family, professional and social point of view. Also, a web platform will be developed. This will contain both the exercises in the mobile application and the detail of the intervention program for crisis and post-crisis so that specialists in the field of psychology, psychotherapy, counseling and adult education in general can take innovative methods and apply them, adapted to the target groups they work with. All these results of the project will be disseminated online and through 5 national conferences (in each partner country) and indefinitely available free of charge on the platforms for disseminating the results of the Erasmus + program.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130760 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASOCIATIA INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARE SI STUDIUL CONSTIINTEI CUANTICE & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Fundacja Instytut Aktywizacji i Rozwoju Spolecznego
• ASSOCIACAO CHECK-IN – COOPERACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO
• FUNDACION ASPAYM CASTILLA Y LEON
• CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE PER LA PROMOZIONE DELL’EDUCAZIONE E LO SVILUPPO ASSOCIAZIONE