ARTHERA Erasmus Project

Project Title

ARTHERA

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Boosting the artistic skills of students with special educational needs by offering them a creative atmosphere is the main aim of this project. While making decisions on our furniture, meal, music, attire, drink, or self-expression ways, actually, the pre-perceptions we have been exposed to until now are affecting these decisions. Improving the quality of life is not only related to budgetary standards but also depends on the natural choices of a person who is nourished by art. Why can’t a special person cook and serve a delightful late gourmet feast? Why a minimalist art installation can’t belong to one with down syndrome? How about modern art on sculptures or murals? Or even sarcastic minimalist atonal music? While the arrangement of an artwork is set on the desired form, occasionally certain parts include accidental sections to seek complicity according to particular generic directives, or sometimes this complicity may become the fundamental goal.

Having a unique name, ARTHERA is creative and also integrative with its artistic approach since art implies creativity, and creativity is the future itself. Youths should be engaged in arts throughout their lives to enrich their emotional and professional growth for art has solid therapeutic efficiency in our system. It can not only adjust breathing and normotension, and also it boosts self-respect, empathy, self-expression, self-exploration, and strength of space and time coordinating skills, as well as neural and intellectual maturity. It is a miraculous path to evolve inclusion and forge social links between students, particularly students with dyslexia, down syndrome, autism, and learning difficulties.

Furthermore, our project has a PR activity on the school communities, which aims to reach ones who are mostly wasting their real potential by consuming their most valued hours on TV or social media, mini-games, and even drugs. These barriers they are not aware, are enough to push, especially youths to awry ways during the crucial periods of their lives, and this leads people in the market to spend their potentials for nothing rather than becoming skilled labor. Non-attendant teens in arts or sports during their critical periods can not be creative or efficient for skilled labor in the future.

Boosting the hand skills of students with SEN will not only strengthen their minor&major muscle progress but also forge a marvelous consciousness about intellectual disability via relevant school events. The students will hand out some encouraging knowledge on how to survive healthily such as nutrition, social habits, and the barriers that obstruct real potential for a satisfactory success. Special students will inform others about the varied inhibitive of individuals through PR activities in hosting partners’ schoolyards with the disability-based NGOs. They will increase awareness on the topics by some leaflets, which are cut as masks with eye holes, to ensure a special look at the world with the perspective of teens with SEN. Instead of highlighting ‘Disability’ as a topic, emphasizing a problem, we name as ‘self-barriers’ (a typical term for this project) for anyone will provide tremendous visibility to ARTHERA tag and to its aim, which is also to broaden the rights of disabled. This is a fundamental reformist act for these rights.

Each art thematic mobility includes 5 Days program with 3 students with Special Educational Needs (aged 15 – 21) and 3 teachers for each partner:

Art Thematic Mobilities:
• Music in Croatia
• Drama in Spain
• Dance in Turkey
• Sculpture in Estonia
• Paint in Lithuania
• Design in Italy

ARTHERA also has a unique operation program in advance, thanks to its diversified mobility points including some major centers and some rural areas in Europe. With a perfect leap, super cool teens will succeed in performing artistic and cross-cultural cooperation. The success will promote to heighten the essential synergy to prosper in any field of existence for any member of the community, despite disadvantages.

Like in our schools, special education ought to be centered on self-care and academic skills with social activities such as arts, sports and socialization based on an active citizenship basis. Also as mentioned in the EU Disability Strategy, Education and Training, Accessibility, Equality, Participation, Health, Employment, Social Protection, and External Activity clauses show us that we are still in a distance to disseminate the most effective cure models(!) for the communities to foster the disability rights worldwide and to maintain the fact that disability is a very part of our societies. This is why our project should be operated internationally and not only based on this partnership’s demands. Our overall goal is to empower all stakeholders in promoting social rights and recovery in order to sustainably change mentalities and practices and ensure the well-being of people with psychosocial, physical, mental, or cognitive disabilities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 178260 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kazlu Rudos Saules mokykla & Country: LT

Project Partners

• Manisa Ozel Egitim Uygulama Okulu III. Kademe
• Secondary School Centar za odgoj i obrazovanje
• PORKUNI KOOL
• IIS L.ACCIAIUOLI – L. EINAUDI di ORTONA
• CEE Sant Cristòfol