The Urban Gardening Role in Improving of Adults’ Skills and Community Growth Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Urban Gardening Role in Improving of Adults’ Skills and Community Growth

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Inclusion – equity; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

The aim of the URBAN GARDENING project is encouraging to active participation and education the local community members, including disfavoured and threatened of exclusion persons eg. migrants, seniors, long-term unemployed people, through setting up and maintaining the urban gardens and working in this common garden space. The project aims to elaborate an innovative educational method to teach soft skills by the work in the garden, e.g. interpersonal communication, team work, management, planning.

The set goal will be achieved by creating a pedagogical approach, an adaptable method; and developing an experimental garden as innovative space of the active pedagogy that encourage the combination of skills and knowledge, sharing of reflection, learning process and collective creation in favour of social intergenerational and intercultural links. Partners will develop the training modules for practitioners with the aim of increasing their skills in supporting disfavoured and threatened of exclusion persons.

We will try to show that establishing and working in the urban gardens is a way to social inclusion, dialogue, sustainable lifestyle, collective knowledge, community spirit and solidarity.

The project will be realized by organizations from 7 European countries: Poland, Greece, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Turkey and France.

That is what we are aiming to achieve:
– To develop training and learning resources which support the professional development of new and existing Practitioners and Educators in the field of adult teaching.
– To actively involve into local milieu people threatened of marginalization.
– To develop a training method, programme and methodology, including the training module, based on activities connected with setting up and maintaining the garden.
– To monitor the impact of the URBAN GARDEN method on end-users’ attitudes and practices.

We foresee the following results, gathered in the Toolkit – Urban gardens as spaces of adults education:
– A training method and programme, including the training modules, based on the use of a space of public garden, for adult learners.
– tools for NGOs, social activists and professionals, supporting the organization of a common space (gardens) and supporting education of adults threatened of social exclusion.
– A Positional Analysis for Sustainable Development.
– Good practices from partners countries and from outside.
– Other resources: bibliography, references, research, analysis, publications, etc.

In the project, we also foresee the training for trainers from partner institutions to test and embed the elaborated training method and ensure the efficient implementation of its testing phase in the experimental gardens in partner countries locally, in the work with project’s target group – disfavoured and threatened of exclusion persons.

The project will be disseminated in various ways: dissemination events, website, social networks, promotional materials, etc. on all levels, from local to international.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 184721 Eur

Project Coordinator

Krakowskie Centrum Zarzadzania i Administracji Sp. z o.o. & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Iniciativi za grajdansko obshtestvo
• HELLAS FOR US ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI MI KYBERNITIKI ETERIA
• ASOCIACION CULTURAL Y DEPORTIVA LAHOYA
• Youth Eurasia
• PRISM – PROMOZIONE INTERNAZIONALE SICILIA – MONDO
• EPLEFPA de Toulouse-Auzeville