Creative reading and writing: exchange of teaching strategies in adult education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creative reading and writing: exchange of teaching strategies in adult 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 : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

“Creative reading and writing: exchange of teaching strategies in adult education” was Erasmus+ strategic partnerships project for five partners from Poland, France, Estonia, Italy and Cyprus. The idea of the project intended media analysis and development of creative skills and capacity of adult educators who dealt with media literacy and taught adult learners as final beneficiaries to think critically and analytically when used media and social media what allowed them to face modern challenges – refugees crisis, unemployment, demography, etc – and could response in adequate and creative way. Project coordinator was Stowarzyszenie VESUVIO from Poland.

General objectives were the promotion of adult education and cooperation between partners, exchange of best practices in creative reading and writing across national borders.

The specific objectives of this project were to support partners organisations, to improve professionalism and quality level of educators and adult learners. Adult educators improved their competences in media literacy and in planing and running own workshops.

This Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project aimed
(i) to collect existing best practices in partners’ organisations, countries, in Europe and in the world;
(ii) to test and edit existing and new tools during project trainings on local and international levels;
(iii) to multiply education tools during the local activities in partners countries;
(iiii) to train on local level adult learners, to give them opportunity to be heard and more visible.

The media approach in education for adults was targeted through non-formal learning methods, learning by doing, which aimed at enhancing experiences and competences of staff members of partners organisations, learners and other stakeholders who learnt to analyze media texts from different angles, learnt how to write own texts for media and social media, created newsletters. More than 50 staff members and adult learners from partners countries were directly involved in the project, more than 100 were benefitted from the project results and more than 500 were involved indirectly during dissemination activities.

Four transnational project meetings in Estonia, France, Italy and Poland, one training course in Cyprus in combination with local activities were complementary for exchange of best practices and learning from each other. Project fostered intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding and particularly during dissemination activities when partners organised presentations they created during the project. Partners disseminated at the highest possible level the knowledge acquired from this project in their organisations and countries, on regional, European and international levels.

One of the main results of this project was intangible: the knowledge, skills, attitudes, they were measured by self-assessment mechanisms, interviews and questionnaires. Self-assessment forms were used before and after the trainings on international and local levels for staff members and adult learners. They helped to evaluate achievements and generated recommendations for future improvements of project activities. This information was shared with all partners. Questionnaires were used to evaluate project activities and the whole project.

Tangible project results can be used and exploited in the longer-term, especially collection of resources in creative reading and writing and adult education, they are available in the Internet. Because they are e-products, they will be constantly added with new materials from project partner organisations and also from other institutions.

We assumed that the impact of the project results were used and multiplied in other organisations in Europe because the theme of the project is universal and materials and methods can be applied in all types of education.

Project is sustainable because of strong network: partners together with few other organisations applied with new Erasmus+ strategic partnership project which includes intellectual outputs.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 52275 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stowarzyszenie “VESUVIO” & Country: PL

Project Partners

• MITRA FRANCE
• DOREA Educational Institute WTF
• Mittetulundusühing EURIKA
• TDM 2000 INTERNATIONAL