BE ABLE TO MEET Erasmus Project

Project Title

BE ABLE TO MEET

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: Access for disadvantaged; Disabilities – special needs; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Availability of culture for the disabled continues to be one of the crucial, unsolved issues. This is of particular importance in the developing countries, where all sorts of access amenities are still a rarity. There is no strategy in place the objective of which would be to improve access to the resources of culture and cultural objects to the disabled. Incidental events are unable to fill the gap, despite being so precious. The project is targeted at intensifying and expanding the range of initiatives which limit the obstacles in access to culture as well as promoting the need of participation in it. The disabled do not participate in generally accessible events not because it is unworkable. Both in Poland and in many countries of the European Union: cinemas, theatres or other cultural life centres still remain unadjusted to their needs. There are no screenings containing audio description for the blind, nor subtitles for the deaf while architectural obstacles, frequently insurmountable, further contribute to the hindered access to artistic events. Inclusion into culture of disabled recipients who are socially “excluded” is a great challenge which may only be faced by a well-trained personnel.
The key task of the project is to promote accessibility through training and support for the personnel of cultural institutions which will apply the obtained skills and solutions in order to eliminate the obstacles for the disabled.
The project “Be able to meet” will focus on specific tasks:
-Discovering the specificity of individual types of disability as well as possibilities of adjusting art to the needs of a different sensory reception
-Introducing educational programmes enabling realization of the idea of broad access to culture and art through liquidating architectural, cognitive, mental and financial barriers, facilitating through this an active participation in art for persons with sight, hearing and motion dysfunctions as well as for the disabled.
Direct target group for the carried out actions will be the persons employed in: culture centres, theatres, museums, cinemas
-professionals – employees of culture who realize projects with the disabled on an occasional basis. The project will offer trainings and innovative support in identifying the needs of cultural institutions in the scope of servicing the disabled guests suffering from various dysfunctions.
-amateurs-volunteers, person who support institutions of culture at an amateur level and who wish to participate in actions towards social integration and fight against social exclusion.
The project will be indirectly targeted at:
-directors, managers of cultural institutions. Both cinemas, theatres, culture centres, exhibition galleries, libraries etc. will be able to find adequate solutions for the preparation of events for the disabled and obtain knowledge on the necessary equipment with similar EU institutions.
-Public administration institutions the task of which is to undertake initiatives in order to improve the quality of life of persons with specific needs as well as prevent their social exclusion and discrimination.
The project will elaborate adequate attitudes towards the disabled in everyday work with them which will be developed and implemented thanks to project activities. Participants will be comprehensively prepared to work with the disabled and increasing their qualifications will enable the use of their skills in order to create the possibility of training the employees of other institutes of culture. “Be able to meet” has detected the best models and practices applied in EU which will be used and developed by project partners with various experiences and backups. Joint work will trigger the appearance of a practical guidebook, containing updated and significant tools in work with the disabled. We have assumed that project actions contained within the guidebook will bring positive and long-term results on the local and European level.
Participants will increase their qualifications and gain new skills during 3 workshops: in Poland, Romania and Spain. Poland – workshop entitled “Model cultural institutions”, Spain – “Audio description, Subtitles, Didu – method which include the blind and the deaf into cultural actions”, Romania – “User of art therapy and other methods in inclusion of persons with motion and mental disabilities. In total, the workshops will be participated by 15 persons, 5 from each country. The workshops will last 4 days.
The key result will be the change of perspective within the target group, which will gain, among project activities, the skills and competencies on working with the disabled, preparing basic audio description, creating both substantive and architectural conditions for artistic and cultural development of persons excluded from culture. These intense training workshops will allow the participants to get closer to the world of needs and problems of the disabled person and, most importantly, possibilities of

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 56300 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centrum Kultury Wroclaw Zachod & Country: PL

Project Partners

• ASSOCIACIÓ DE GESTIÓ INTEGRAL DE SERVEIS SOCIOCULTURALS IDEA
• Asociatia Culturala Replika