“INCLUSIVE ART FOR DISABLED PEOPLE AND MENTALLY” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“INCLUSIVE ART FOR DISABLED PEOPLE AND MENTALLY”

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Access for disadvantaged; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

The project FixSmallArt was created with core purpose to support the piloting and implementation of innovative art training methodologies for empowerment of people with learning disabilities and mental health to develop their communication skills, social status, and personal responsibility. The applied method enables us to empower people with disability by developing their key competences, share old and develop new methods, and enhance visibility of people with disability who are usually left on margins of the labour market due to prejudice. The main objectives of the project are:
• Preparation of training materials and guidelines for trainers and learners (IO1 and IO2)
• Actual implementation of “Paper Art lab” at international level and oriented to trainers techniques and learners testing (C1 and C2)
• Local trainings for practical testing and piloting of trainers and learners techniques (E1-7 and IO4)
• Digital trainings though Moodle (IO3)
The project was coordinated by Medborgarskolan (Sweden) in partnership with organizations from other five European countries, who strive to enhance employment and social involvement of people with disability (PWD) through use of educational techniques connected with paper, color and wood art. Specifically, in the project were participating SOCA (Slovenia), IPSA (Greece), Anazitites Theatrou (Greece), OECON GROUP Bulgaria, UCLL (Belgium) and L’Olive (Italy).
The main results/outputs of the project implementation were:
(a) O1 Facilitator Training Programme on Disabled people and mentally to professionals to work in art paper (Curricula preparation and elaboration of materials): training plan and materials necessary for the implementation of the local FixSmallArt labs as part of training of learners (94 pages document, 7 labs)
(b) O2 Development of Guide to work with disabled people and mentally in art (training guideline): trainers’ guideline with strategies and methodologies (110 pages and consisted of 6 modules 50 pages, published on SALTO)
(c) O3 Moodle “FixSmallArt Lab” (online training materials/tools): Moodle courses for Trainers and learners (13 videos)
(d) O4 Local FixSmallArt labs (training of learners): organization of local courses in each country with 10 weeks duration (40 hours) and 152 participants
(e) C1 Social worker’s capacity building and skills training session (international training of trainers): ToT with 15 experts and 5 days duration, organized in Italy
(f) C2 Pilot FixSmallArt_ Lab (international training): pilot training of learners with 77 learners and 102 trainers, organized in Greece
Based on these main outputs were organized 7 multiplayer events with 8 hours duration each and the participation of 159 people.

The activities had started at 01/11/2018 and ended at 30/10/2020.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 235025 Eur

Project Coordinator

Medborgarskolan, Stockholm, Kulturama & Country: SE

Project Partners

• UNIVERZITETNI REHABILITACIJSKI INSTITUT REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE-SOCA
• INSTITOYTO PSYCHOKOINONIKIS ANAPTYXIS
• UC LIMBURG
• OECON GROUP BULGARIA
• ANAZITITES THEATROU
• L’Ovile Cooperativa di Solidarietà Sociale scrl