CREATIVE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY – OPERATIONAL APPROACH Creativity at the service of Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

CREATIVE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY – OPERATIONAL APPROACH
Creativity at the service of Education

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The project’s idea was born in full lockdown from the union of artists and trainers engaged for years in educational activities in various countries of Europe. It was born in the context of a particular worldwide collective experience that involves us deeply in all aspects, involving everyone and the whole European and trans-European territory.

CREATIVE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY-OPERATIONAL APPROACH combines a strong digital design action with a creative action in the educational field, based on the emotional experience.

The project aims, through a 2 years cooperation between international partners, to create a methodology and the tools for operators (especially fromCCS -Cultural and Creative Sectors-) to implement creative emotional activities in educational contexts, providing a Toolbox (IO1), a Methodology (IO2) and an Operational Digital Tool for operators (IO3), to support and guide them in the creation of creative emotional journeys for young people.

CREATIVE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY is an immersive, creative and emotional experience for young people; it is a themed “journey”: the approach can be implemented in various and urgent themes for society. Our Consortium, due to the internal expertises, will address two specific themes (gender violence and bullying) that will represent the models for practical implementation of our products.

This project aims at capitalising the various partners’ expertise, the experience, the competences, the previous projects’ results to create products that allow operators and organizations, in particular in the cultural and creative sectors working with young people to cope with the situation caused by the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic, creating the possibility of a resilience of the sector, providing a METHODOLOGY that will represent the bridge between CREATIVITY – EMOTIONAL APPROACH – DIGITAL TOOLS – EDUCATION – YOUNGSTERS.

CREATIVE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY – OPERATIONAL APPROACH provides the possibility of COOPERATION between educational sectors and cultural and creative sectors.
The aim of the project is to support CCS operators in the creation of creative contents with emotional approach usable in educational context, and provide operators from educational sectors the possibility to use creative contents addressing urgent issues for society, during their work with young people.

Moreover, the project will provide knowledge, tools and a Methodology to work with youngsters on an EMOTIONAL level, thanks to the involvement of psychologists, pedagogues, sociologists, educators.

Another innovative aspect, fundamental to arm operators for coping with the pandemic situation, is the DIGITAL dimension:
-digital format of the tools
-digital fruition of contents
-Instructions to create creative emotional educational contents accessible online.

The project has also a long term vision and it aims in supporting operators also in the implementation of blended activities, combining digital usability with live experience and activities.
From the end of the project the platform will allow a collaborative construction, it will continue to be developed with new contents thanks to people involved in the project, and new users and creators, and due to the transferability potential of the model. Each new content will be regularly checked, following an established editorial policy and quality standards.

We strongly believe that the digital experience should, when the situation will create the conditions, be PROPAEDEUTIC to an offline experience, ensuring the project’s products’ usability also when we will have the opportunity to go back to face-to-face activities and live experiences.

The methodology and tools are designed for CCS operators who want to keep working in this situation that affected this sector in particular, and bring art in the educational sector; at the same time it supports operators of the educational sector who want to address specific themes with a creative and emotional experience for their users.

CREATIVE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY-OPERATIONAL APPROACH aims to overcome the mere recourse to common sense or simplifying rationalizations, integrating art, pedagogy of emotions and pedagogy of reason.
The project aims to create a tool that will give the opportunity to each user, operator, artists, educators, trainers, to compose their own personal customized program; an emotional educational experience that the operators address to their users who, due to the health emergency, are unable to enjoy the experience of live art, shows and workshops. A tool that provides guided listening, group exercises, interviews, insights and discussions with experts on the themes covered, podcasts, training materials, performances and educational proposals that each operator, artist, educator will be able to shape and combine with their own workshop program following the methodology that this project will provide them.

CREATIVE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY-OPERATIONAL APPROACH: Creativity at the service of Education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 191881 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sciaraprogetti Associazione di Promozione Sociale – Ente del Terzo Settore & Country: IT

Project Partners

• VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS
• ACTION SYNERGY SA
• Compagnie Duanama
• Creo Común: Facilitando el Cambio