Arts for Human Rights Erasmus Project

Project Title

Arts for Human Rights

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social dialogue; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

Arts for Human Rights is a European wide three-year, transnational partnership project using creative processes of theatre and film and new digital technologies to promote learning and raising awareness in relation to human rights and gender equality across Europe. The aim is firstly to design a new transnational Arts for Human Rights module that educators, teachers and artists can implement with adult learners using creative processes to promote human rights and gender equality and secondly to design a new, innovative blended learning ‘Train the Trainers’ training curriculum to train educators, teachers and artists in how to implement the Arts for Human Rights module with adult learners.

Arts for Human Rights runs from 2019 to 2022 with five European partners from Ireland, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Spain and brings together a cross sector of organisations that work with marginalised groups in adult education. The five European partner organisations are Smashing Times Theatre Company, Ireland (Coordinating Partner), DAH Theatre Research Centre, Belgrade Serbia, Youth Peace Group Danube, Vukovar, Croatia, KU TU, Bulgaria, and IFESCOOP, Spain.

Five partner organisations come together through five transnational partner exchanges to share good practices and collaboratively combine their existing expertise, knowledge and work practices that have shown positive results in order to create a new Europe wide creative-based Arts for Human Rights module that can be rolled out in each partner country, using creative processes of theatre and film and new digital technologies to promote human rights and gender equality. The work is innovative as the models of practice are conducted through an active learning process, the learning is ‘experiential’ as participants learn through ‘doing’ the games and exercises so the impact is immediate and longer-lasting.

Arts for Human Rights results in the creation of a collaboratively designed Arts for Human Rights module made up of five face-to-face lessons that an adult educator, teacher or artist conducts with adult learners to promote learning in relation to human rights and gender equality. The educational information to accompany the five lessons consists of five hand-outs; three Ted-Style talks, a short film and an Arts and Human Rights research book. The five partner organisations collaboratively design a new blended learning ‘Train the Trainers’ training curriculum to train adult educators, teachers and artists in how to implement the Arts for Human Rights module with adult learners. The ‘train the trainers’ curriculum is made up of a five day face-to-face ‘train the trainers’ training session and one ‘train the trainers’ e-learning lesson. Fifteen educators are trained in how to conduct the Arts for Human Rights module and a series of testing activities and a series of multiplier events are held across Europe to raise awareness of the Arts and Human Rights module, the ‘train the trainers’ training programme, the Arts and Human Rights book, the three TED style talks and short film. Communications and Dissemination activities are conducted reaching 300,000 directly and a Final Report and Evaluation and an Arts for Human Rights book are distributed widely.

The Arts for Human Rights module, the train the trainers blended training curriculum and the accompanying materials are all developed in response to international and national research already conducted by the partner organisations. A further two hundred questionnaires will be used, conducted with educators, teachers, artists and human rights organisations across Europe, all aiming to identify content in relation to using creative processes of theatre and film to promote human rights and gender equality across Europe.

The final book ‘Arts for Human Rights’ contains the international and national research, a documentation of fifteen examples of good practice from across Europe, the questionnaire findings, information on policy at national and local levels in relation to the use of creative processes to promote human rights and gender equality in adult education, and information on the new Arts for Human Rights module, educational material and the new Train the Trainers Training Curriculum. The book also contains 20 stories of human rights defenders. The book is created in the form of a 50 page A4 book available on-line and is distributed widely throughout Europe, through the IFESCOOP network and other networking links and is made available on each partner website and through Epale.

Arts for Human Rights provides adult educators, teachers and artists with the skills necessary to work with adult learners through a creative medium in order to promote human rights and gender equality. Target Groups include artists, adult educators, teachers, adult learners, community development workers, drama facilitators and organisations working in the field of Human Rights

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197530 Eur

Project Coordinator

SMASHING TIMES THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED & Country: IE

Project Partners

• Mirovna grupa mladih Dunav
• UG Dah Teatar
• KU TU EOOD
• INICIATIVAS DE FUTURO PARA UNA EUROPA SOCIAL COOP V