Art therapy – a unique resource for personal development: еxchange of good practices Erasmus Project

Project Title

Art therapy – a unique resource for personal development: еxchange of good practices

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

“Art therapy – a unique resource for personal development: еxchange of good practices” Erasmus+ strategic partnership is 24 months project designed by partners from Lithuania, Latvia, …………..
Partners will support of extending and developing the competences of educators, social workers, youth workers and other personnel who support youth learners. Supporting educators in their learning process and by exchanding and providing new teaching materials this project partners also will support youth as final beneficiaries what is priority for Erasmus+ Programme.

This strategic partnership project aim is to share good practice examples in interactive and creative
learning of youth with dissabilities by using Art Therapy. Partners will develop “Methodology of expressive art therapy application.” E-Book – a sustainable training tool for youth trainers which will be one of tangible results of this project. This project is an attempt to summarize the available experience in the European countries, the experience of practicing teachers in the use of elements of art therapy as a kind of art pedagogy, give an overview of the positive effects on different children, including children with developmental disabilities.
The objectives of the project are:
*to share good practices among project partners,
*to increase professional development of youth workers,
*to collect and develop methods for the project E-Book,
*to develop and reinforce EU networks for disabled youth teaching and learning,
*to enrich the network of disabled youth education providers in partners’ countries and Europe.
Partners plan to reinforce networks, increase the capacity to operate at transnational level, share
ideas, practices and methods based on European cooperation. This project should be carried out
transnationally as one of the main aim is the exchange of good practices between European
countries. The project brings added value at EU level through results that would not be attained by
activities carried out in a single country because it is difficult to learn and compare the good practices of different countries without living and being a part of it.
Project activities will include:
• organisation of three transnational meetings and regular local activities;
• preparation and implementation of two short-term joint staff training events;
• collection of teaching materials in ” Methodology of expressive art therapy application”;
• monitoring and evaluation process;
• dissemination of project results.
Impact on the participants will be seen on improvement of knowledge of educators about art therapy methods in work with disabled youth. They will have opportunity to learn about new methodology which they can later use with their learners. Partners will increase EU project management competencies. They will tighten their cooperation, exchange of good practices and experiences. The project will contribute to increasing youth workers creativity competencies. After participating in the local trainings, they will have possibility to explore and find their hidden talents.
Learning and training activities will give the added value for disabled youth and for achievement of the project objectives. Partners plan that more then 100 participants will be involved in this project.
The potential longer term benefits of this project will be in its sustainability. Project materials will be available in digital form for use to wider audience. Partners will continuously organise workshops and trainings after the project life cycle in their own organisations and also in other youth education organisations, in non-formal and informal ways. Examples of good practices will be shared among different target groups. Partners plan to develop a new Erasmus+ and other projects in the future, and continue working on using art therapy in youth education and to support social and educational values of non-formal education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 60545 Eur

Project Coordinator

Telsiu kurciuju ir neprigirdinciuju draugija & Country: LT

Project Partners

• TEATRO METAPHORA – ASSOCIACAO DE AMIGOS DAS ARTES
• ASOCIATIA DEMETRIUS
• LUETEC
• SIA RK “VILORI” Inovaciju izglitibas centrs “IDEJA”