Cultural education for adults with sociotherapeutic needs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cultural education for adults with sociotherapeutic needs

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: Research and innovation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

The Project “Cultural education for adults with sociotherapeutic needs” is an international enterprise run in Poland, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands and Great Britain.
The main problem in the project refers to the lack of holistic methodology of using critical-cultural education for gaining real social change.
We plan to develop an innovative methodology of holistic educational work with people who need sociotherapeutic support, to bring together the tools of artistic and cultural-critical education with psychological and sociotherapeutic competences. We would like to develop a model of cooperation between cultural and artistic educators, sociotherapeutic institutions and groups socially excluded, for example in prisons, hospitals, for homeless people, for seniors in institutions of social care.
Agents of educational initiatives have difficulties with defining synergy between social, cultural and sociotherapeutic goals in educational projects. They are trained in using tools of, for example, anti-discrimination in education but often don’t know how to implement them in a wider context of the socio-economic situation of recipients and how to use them to satisfy their psychological needs. Likewise, tools of cultural education (art, theatre, drama) do not meet social and therapeutic goals on their own. Specialists of cultural education usually don’t cooperate with therapists and these very rarely cooperate with social workers. Knowledge from the three fields of the cultural, social and psychological don’t yet create the common basis of educational research, diagnosis, and in the consequence of methodology of critical cultural education. Our project will begin to change that.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 393762 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centrum Kultury “Zamek” & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Stichting Anatta Foundation
• ASOCIACION CULTURAL EUROACCION MURCIA
• Creative YouthLand (CYOUland)
• City Mine(d) London