Advocating Cultural Exploration Erasmus Project

Project Title

Advocating Cultural Exploration

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: Migrants’ issues; Inclusion – equity; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

1) context/background of project
This is a 24 month project that includes 5 partners from Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey and UK.
The pillars on which this project stands are 2.
– First of all we were inspired by the motto that the European Union adopted in 2000 “United in diversity”. As Europe in recent years has been at the centre of the so called “refugee crises” we would like to use this project and its outcomes to extend the motto to migrants (in this application we will use the term migrant in the wide sense including refugees, economic migrants, asylum seekers) and find ways to enable the latter as well as locals to learn from each other and consequentially become more united while respecting diversity.
– secondly it will address Cultural Heritage. It is fundamental for migrants when arriving it the host country and once they have settled in to have a deep understanding of the cultural heritage of their new home. At the same time for the hosting community the best way to overcome fears and prejudices is to learn about the richness of the migrants culture heritage. By facilitating ways of exchange, this project will not only help the inclusion process but will give a chance to adults migrants to gain new skills about European culture and at the same time get tips and methods on how to transfer their own cultural heritage to others. Both skills learning and teaching are fundamentals to get more chances to get a job and/or building confidence to start a business.

2) objectives
– Promote social inclusion and tackle discrimination and stereotypes,
– Fighting poverty thought culture
– Promote entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills within the field of cultural heritage;
– Raise awareness on the key role of cultural heritage in defining a European identity both for citizens and migrants;
– Combine learning with training and identity building;
– Start a new way or understanding and using cultural heritage, beyond a mere touristic aspect;
– Train key figures working with adult migrants for stimulate them to develop learning and teaching skills related to cultural heritage;
– Use cultural heritage to initiate societal changes;
– Build bridges between local communities and institutions in the field of cultural heritage, social inclusion and entrepreneurship
– promote equality, including gender equality, and non-discrimination and social inclusion
– new approaches to reducing disparities in access to and engagement with digital technologies in formal and non-formal education

3) number and profile of participants;
– 25 adults, 5 per partner, will be chosen and participate to the training;
– each partner will select 1 trainer expert in non-formal adult education, 1 migrant (now involved in reception projects) willing to share knowledge about his cultural heritage, 1 person working in reception programmes (i.e. psychologist, cultural mediator, lawyer and so on), 1 person working in the cultural heritage sector, 1 project manager.
– A minimum of 100 participants (migrants and professional in the sector of migration) will be involved in local activities and dissemination events, around 20 per partners, that will take place after the transnational training in each partner’s country.

4) Activities;
– Creation of the web site and social media profile of the project
– Creation of a toolkit
– International training activity in Greece, to test the toolkit and evaluate its potential, putting also in practice some activities and share best practices.
– Local and international dissemination activities of the toolkit to reach more stakeholders.
– Review and publication of the toolkit based on the feedback received

5) methodology
-Acquiring new skills and establish an informal cooperation network that see different actors working together: local communities, migrants, educators and so on;
-Learn how groups can work together to promote local, national and European changes;
-Encourage exchange among partners individuating main topics and subjects through the partners’ expertise;
-Increase knowledge of and insight into how contexts and group dynamics determines behaviours;
-To provide practitioners with an portfolio of knowledge on: migration, inclusion, service provision, democratic practice and heritage valorization.

6) results
toolkit divided in 2 essential parts: “European Cultural Heritage” , “Migrants cultural Heritage”. The toolkit will include tips on new teaching learning methods including: digital storytelling and video making

7) longer term benefits
To build up a network of organisations working with the target group for:
– sharing good practices on best methods on adult education, interaction between local and migrants, selfdevelo
– develop new pathways in order to find tools to face the challenges posed by migration
– promote social inclusion, tolerance, respect thanks to the new light with which the migrant culture will be seen
– Building a stronger European identity through cultural heritage

Project Website

http://aceproject.live/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 50192,93 Eur

Project Coordinator

Itaka training & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Kairos Europe Limited
• Innovation Frontiers IKE
• Associació Empresarial L’alqueria Projectes Educatius
• Gebze Halk Egitimi Merkezi