EM-MA: EMotional MAnagement exercises for adults Erasmus Project

Project Title

EM-MA: EMotional MAnagement exercises for adults

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

For years, the magnitude of the mental health problems have been overshadowed by other public health matters. Every year over one in four European adults are affected by mental health problems. Annually, mental illnesses lead to 58 000 suicides in Europe. The estimated number of Europeans that have suffered from major depression is 18.4 millions and from specific phobias 18.5 million within the past 12 months. 4.3% of all deaths in the EU in 2016 resulted from mental and behavioural disorders. In 2016, 14% of all hospital beds in the EU were psychiatric care beds. The proportion of people who had depressive disorders was higher for women than for men in each of the EU Member States. In Spain 12% of people aged 45 and over report chronic depression. In Poland its 6% and in UK 11% (EUROSTAT data). EU governments keep allocating resources to counteract this problem, and we, as a Partnership (ELN, AWA and Permacultura Cantabria), decided to contribute as well; Mental health problems need to be tackled at their very core. Looking at the data available, the Partnership decided to act and develop a method that European adults would be able to apply in order to counteract the problem on a personal level.

We are looking forward to promoting emotional management among adults as it is an innovative topic that needs to be more present in the focus of the NGO´s, formal and informal education providers and decision makers of our communities.

The objectives of our project are:
1. To improve the management of emotions in the adult training process, which in consequence will positively impact the quality of their learning, inclusion and employment possibilities.
2. To expand knowledge on managing emotions in participating organizations.
3. To provide basic emotional management tools in non-formal education to adults and adult trainers in form of the Emotional Exercise Book.
4. To contribute to achieving high quality non-formal adult education by raising awareness of the importance of emotional management in this sector, especially targeting its decision makers.
5. To facilitate the access to the new, improved emotional management techniques to other adult trainers and adults from the whole Europe

The main activities of the project will be:

3 Transnational Meetings:
Kick off meeting in Spain
Intermediate Evaluation in Poland
Final Evaluation in the UK

3 Participatory visits: to share tools and knowledge about emotional management for adults:
Training Course: Permacultura Cantabria, Spain
1st Participatory Visit: AWA, Poland
2nd Participatory Visit: ELN, UK

Creation of an intellectual output: The Interactive Book will compile information gathered during the 3 training activities; It will adopt the disadvantaged groups focus and explain key emotional management tools and exercises, help understand its importance in everyday life, work and training, and explain the relationship between human behaviour and hormones, as well as the relationship between social problems and methods used for tension relief.

It is expected that this project will generate the following outcomes:

Adult trainers and adults who participated in the project will know more about human psychology, increase their level of awareness of the importance of the emotional management, obtain tools and knowledge to improve the mental state of the members of their communities and become more qualified to manage the integration and inclusion processes. They will learn how to prevent the trainer burn-out and improve their skills on developing innovative methods for working with disadvantaged groups.

We will empower adults and adult trainers with new emotional management tools through a dissemination campaign. We will transfer them the activities, book and project results so they can benefit from the project.

The Strategic Partnership will contribute to fostering emotional management in adult people in their countries. Each organisation will add it as part of their cornerstones and become an emotional management reference in each respective country.We will establish long term, healthy organisational relationships to be able to develop joint initiatives in the future.

ELN and AWA will acquire and implement basic and new to the organisation knowledge regarding the emotional management, and improve their capacity for conducting the process of innovation and documenting it. Permacultura Cantabria will acquire new skills for the emotional management for groups of disadvantaged adults, and implement new to the organisation knowledge regarding the international collaboration.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 153555 Eur

Project Coordinator

European Learning Network Ltd & Country: UK

Project Partners

• STOWARZYSZENIE AKTYWNE KOBIETY
• ASOCIACION CULTURAL Y MEDIOAMBIENTAL PERMACULTURA CANTABRIA