Fusion of Art and Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Fusion of Art and 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: Creativity and culture; Social dialogue; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

In the strategic partnership FAE (Fusion of Art and Education) we will focus on the cooperation between adult educators and artists. We think this collaboration will help to develop the competences for the artists and the adult educators to launch educational and artistic projects, which are important for the future of democracy and participation.

Involved are four expierenced organisations from Germany (HochVier – Gesellschaft für politische und Interkulturelle Bildung), Italy (CESIE), Portugal (Embaixada da Juventude) and Austria (uniT GmbH).

They will do a research about the state of the art of the use of art and artists in adult education (IO1), organize examplary artistic and educational courses/events/pilot projects (IO2) and give recommandations about a further fruitfull collaboration of art and education (IO3).

The project has four target groups:
For the residents of the involved regions, communities or urban spaces the project will
• give the participants a voice, make their needs visible and audible. The projects have to involve residents or members of the chosen community to reflect on their situation by using the means of art.
• foster and stimulate dialogue, communication and discussion among the participants.
• increase democratic partizipation and democratic development of society
• raise awareness for the beneficiaries that they can do something to change a situation, to design a better future for them and to fight for their visions and ideas.
• increase identification with their region, district etc. and the inclusion and communication between different groups in the according territory.
Results for the artists
• The project gives the artists a chance to demonstrate what art can do for a society, communities etc.
• It can give an example of a two- way cooperation between art and adult education, which can also be a role model for other types of cooperation with other important institutions in society.
• It will increase the competences of artists to run this type of project in cooperation together with other institutions.
Results for the adult educators and adult education organisations
• Gathering experiences how arts and adult education can cooperate, how the different approaches can create synergetic effects for the final beneficiaries and how the different roles in the project can be defined clearly, so that all the partners can bring in their own strengths
• Increasing the competences to implement such cooperative projects and to see what additional competencies adult educators and organisations working in the field of adult education will need to run these projects and to implement the cooperation successfully
• Motivating organisations for adult education to engage artists for projects
Results for target groups of dissemination
• Artists’ unions and organisations, artists, adult educators and their organisations as well as politicians and stakeholders are here target groups. The project offers good practice examples, ideas, concepts and recommendations for cooperation between art and education.

All outputs will be available as free OER downloads on the project’s website and the websites of the participating organisations. The OER products and the link to these websites will also be published on EPALE as on other platforms.
The projects website will remain online and updated available beyond project length so that an easy access to our dissemination materials is guaranteed. For the website we want to produce content even after the project has finished and want to establish as one important site for people looking for information about art and artists in adult education.

The eight Multiplier Events are according to IO2 and IO3. They want show results, recommandations and best practise to a wider public and so dissaminate. At the same time they serve for discussion, reflection, evaluation and further development.
First the project results will be disseminated into the participating organisations to improve the structures and procedures of the involved organisations and their staff’s competences and expertise in using art and artists.
The outside targets for disseminating the intellectual outcomes are adult education providers at all levels but also individual educators and artists, their organisations, stakeholder, politicians etc.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 165120 Eur

Project Coordinator

HochVier – Gesellschaft für politische und interkulturelle Bildung e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• uniT GmbH
• Embaixada da Juventude
• CESIE