Human Rights education: Competences and materials for Training staff for social handicaped people Erasmus Project

Project Title

Human Rights education: Competences and materials for Training staff for social handicaped people

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: Access for disadvantaged; Pedagogy and didactics; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Human Rights Education: Competences and materials for training staff of social handicaped people

In this project six organizations from the field of adult education, social commitment and integration are cooperating: Various organizations, a commune and an association of commues, associated partners like the concentration camp Memorial Mauthausen as an expert in commemorative work and the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for human rights (University of Vienna) for scientific monitoring. The organizations are located in Austria, Italy and the Czech Repbulic.

The aim of the project is to bring existing activities of the organizations to a new level and to develop new products for social handicapped people. Target groups are especially young people, older employees, people from strata remote from education and/or with migrant background. The project ties up with the year of cultural heritage 2018 and is led by the basic values of the European Union and the human rights in connection with the development of new and creative ways of thinking in the educational work. The participants jointly develop new and crative forms of offers in adult education, use integral methods and connect this with digital media.

Concrete outputs are:

Output 1: The “Way of Human Rights” will be developed in two locations: As example for a rural area in the Bewusstseinsregion Mauthausen – Gusen – St. Georgen (Austria) and for the urban space in Empoli (Italy). Each way consists of 15 stations with historical content, one audioguide, informational
cards and boards to the topic of one selected human right.

Output 2: A Curriculum for a competence taining of pedagogical staff is created, the necessary detailled contents are elaborated and a pilot course is carried out in the Czech Republic (C1) with 10 participants.

In two Blended Mobilities – one in Austria (C2, 15 participantws) and one in Italy (C3, 16 participants) – the “Way of Human Rights” and its materials will be opened and presented directly to the target group of disadvantaged people. Short films are produced.

In three Multiplyer Events in Austria (E1) – 48 participants, Italy (E2) – 20 participants, and Czechia (E3) – 40 participants, the outputs are presentated to multiplyers from other organizations, stakeholders and representatives of the comunes.

The main objective of the outputs are creating new forms of measures for adult education in the area of cultural Heritage and human Rights education: Finding/accessing new ways of learning, basic EUvalues und human rights, language competences, diversity, intercultural competences, critical and creative thinking. The learner gets in touch with organizations from the field of adult education and social commitment. This opens up further possibilities for the target groups. The competences are documented and are available in the system of ECVET.

The elaborated outputs are available for free online in whole Europe and can be used from different organizations. The participating organizations share the results on their local, regional, national and international platforms and networks. In the following up of the project the new offers of adult
education become a fix part of institutionalized programmes, they are as well provided for other organizations to benefit from them.
Social integrations grows, you can feel a better kind of living together.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 140213 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gemeindeverband “Bewusstseinsregion Mauthausen – Gusen – St.Georgen” & Country: AT

Project Partners

• ANED Associazione Nazionale Ex Deportati nei campi nazisti
• COMUNE DI EMPOLI
• Kommunale Bildung und Integration
• KreBul, o.p.s.
• Familienakademie Mühlviertel