Promote image education as a tool for the inclusion of children in precarious and migratory situations Erasmus Project

Project Title

Promote image education as a tool for the inclusion of children in precarious and migratory situations

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The covid-19 pandemic and lockdown context has dramatically outlined some issues faced by youth at large and moreover by children living in situations of precarity and/or migration. As underlined by the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education : “The primary lesson from the crisis is that inclusion and equal opportunities must be at the heart of the EU’ s future education and training policies”. (Press release, 23.09.2020).

Nowadays, image education is crucial and programs need to be tailored to the various contexts of audiences. Through image education, EduKino wants to promote basic skills for children and professionals, in compliance with the desire of the European Commission to foster the development of key competences at all ages.

EduKino project situates itself at the cross-road between multiple problematics faced by:
_youth in vulnerability: difficult access to digital tools, the internet, few tutoring capacities at home, little access to cultural and artistic life;
_the professionals who work with them in educational context or medical-social facilities: difficulties to find tools or methodologies, lack of exchanges and limited time to implement projects;
_the professionals of the artistic and cultural sector: need to adapt their activities (Covid-19), difficulties in reaching these very socially and economically isolated audiences.

EduKino focuses on 3 axis:
_Image education: as a didactic tool for the social inclusion of children, but also for active citizenship through involvement in the cultural life of their city and their inclusion in all social spaces.
_Cooperation between professionals: networking and exchange of practices encourages the development of each person’s skills and enables the development of methodologies adapted to the problems faced by the public.
_Replicability: the elaboration of tools and methodologies for education professionals and image education professionals will enable everyone to appropriate & apply them in their respective professional practices and contexts.

The partnership gathers 7 partners (3 image education structures, 4 organisations working with vulnerable youth) from 4 countries (FR, PT, RO, UK). 94 vulnerable children (such as Roma children, from deprived backgrounds, migrants, with educational issues) and 78 professionals (teachers, educators, professionals from artistic and cultural sector) will take part. A total of 500 people will be reached by the project.

Objectives are:
_Encourage recovery and resilience for cultural, artistic and educational actors, by strengthening their ability to collaborate and adapt their modes of action in a way that shows their understanding of the audiences they meet
_For the children: 1) initiate an intellectual work around image and its production, and to open them to a field they know little about but crucial to their citizen life, 2) strengthen their self-confidence by leading them to value and share their knowledge and skills through playful workshops leading them to acquire new skills
_for teachers and educators: opportunity to gain skills to raise awareness and accompany children and their families to the uses of image and audiovisual media.

The IOs are:
IO1_ Intersectoral cooperation methodology: through a collection of best practices and workshops, creating a comprehensive and adaptable methodology for cooperation between various actors to support inclusion of young people in precarious or migratory situations.
IO2_ Image education program: test a year-long program of image education that is modelled to the issues faced by young people in vulnerability and foster exchanges between professionals.
IO3_ Capacity building program: support education professionals to face new challenges and audiences raising awareness to the multiple issues faced by vulnerable children, promoting strategies of intersectoral cooperation to facilitate implementation of inclusive projects such as image education program and training to image education.
IO4_ Awareness raising campaign and capacity building for children: to strengthen the capacities and self-esteem of the children, acquire new skills and aptitudes, they will present their audiovisual productions (IO2) and be the main actors to define and drive an awareness campaign directed to a wide audience.

Expected results are :
_ Production of reusable and replicable tools in the field of image education
_ Acquisition of knowledge and skills in image education and intersectoral cooperation for professionals
_ Children will develop life-lasting skills in image education and related field and a sense of belonging

Productions are: 4 TPM, 2 STJSTE, 5 ME, 5 image education programs tested, 7 campaign events, 1 training, 4 modules, 1 booklet available in the languages of the project.

The project will create long lasting skills and tools for children and professionals and is highly replicable thanks to the methodology and training modules available on Epale or eTwinning

Project Website

https://edukino.assoc.ro/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 298497 Eur

Project Coordinator

AFEJI HAUTS-DE-FRANCE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Cinéligue
• Asociatia Profesionala Neguvernamentala de Asistenta Sociala ASSOC
• APROXIMAR- COOPERATIVA DE SOLIDARIEDADE SOCIAL, CRL
• CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE TIMISOARA ASOCIATIA
• L’Univers Cité
• No Place Productions