Learning Paths Across Traditions History Society Erasmus Project

Project Title

Learning Paths Across Traditions History Society

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Romas and/or other minorities; Access for disadvantaged; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The core of the project “Learning Paths Across History, Traditions,Society” (L-PATHS) was inclusion of disadvantaged groups of people: migrants, refugeees,handicapped, elderly who are often “excluded” from social living, in the respect of the UN resolution of November 2011, which says that adults education is ” an ongoing process through which people at all levels of development and in all strata of society learn respect for the dignity of others and the means and methods to ensure that respect in all societies .” The project focused on the respect of human rights: the right to be born equal in freedom and dignity, the right to personal integrity and self-determination whatever ethnicity, social status, physical and mental health condition, political condition are. We tried to promote dignity, tolerance and peace,by educating individuals and groups to respect them, working to defend and support them. In order to accomplish this goal we created a stable cooperation between schools, associations , government agencies, voluntary, so thate the human rights education could move from single and temporary interventions to a continuous joint action in order to start the way for a real opportunity for self-affirmation of the weaker ones whose rights , if they exist, are daily trampled, ignored. Interventions worked on two interconnected paths: a cultural one and a more operative one.
Each partner put in action learning and cultural opportunities,using Arts and Performing Arts, especially Music, to promote and foster learning as well as social inclusion and a new citizenship. Arts were the medium to learn about history, cultural identity, language of the country where learners, both native and newcomers,live by involving them in long- lasting lab activities. Integration of different cultures and languages obviously came along, due the composition of the groups. Language mediators helped in keeping communication alive, yet giving English, language of the project, the the preminent role. In particular in the first year labs were on The Nature Life Cycle: folk rythes and festivities linked to seasons, weather, harvest… In the second year we exploited The Humans’ Life Cycle: folk rythes and festivities linked to life and death, divinity, the supernatural….
These actions were accompanied by more operative measures directed to minor groups and aimed to enhance enterpreunership. They were both strictly connected to the making of the project’s outputs and to the fulfillment of its objectives. So we all built long-lasting crafts workshops as well as specific labs according to the target group each partner was addressing. The aim of the laboratories was not only to ensure the little revenue to the members of the laboratory, but to start a new community that could turn into social cooperative in the future. It was a first step to switch from openness to progressive participation of immigrants to build a common citizenship and acquire a new community that is able to overcome the difficulties of the present, projecting every effort towards the near future , making it feel not the immigrant but most host city in its own right , accepted and integrated into every neighborhood in a new town atmosphere.
All the activities, both cultural and operative, were documented by the same learners guided by trainers, through videos, newsletters. This engagement in dissemination means that they used English and new technologies they were trained in as a connected learning activity.
Participation in mobility activities provided opportunities for individuals to gain new knowledge, skills and cultural competences, which can contribute to their personal development and improve their employability.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 142963,95 Eur

Project Coordinator

Associazione Culturale-Progetto Musica Valeria Martina & Country: IT

Project Partners

• DENIZLI IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
• The New Carnival Company CIC
• Fondation Art and Culture – Sevlievo
• Pucko otvoreno uciliste Mencl