Lifelong Dancing – Learning pathways about dance for Adult Educators Erasmus Project

Project Title

Lifelong Dancing – Learning pathways about dance for Adult Educators

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; Inclusion – equity; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

Lifelong Dancing, is a strategic partnerhsip project aimed to produce innovative curricula for Adult Education, about how to work using Dance with many kind of target group with lower opporutunities.
In order to achieve this great result, the consortium is composed by 5 organization (from 5 countries) dealing with different kind of fewer opportunities people:
1)Aspaym, with great experience about dealing disable people.
2)CEIPES, that will take care about the target group of migrants and refugees, as it does in its activities and projects every year.
3)Gamma Inst. That will deal with people with psychological and emotional disorders, as association and training center of psychologists.
4)Essevesse, association with great experience of using dance in social field, will deal with people with economical obstables and coming from difficoult neighborood.
5)Eunipartners, organization that work with people from rural area, will deal with the people with geographical obstacles.

The aim of the project is to increase the quality of adult education organization, dealing with people with fewer opportunities, thanks to the use of innovative formal, non formal (and digital) educational methodology.
In this way, the project aims also to develop the wellbeing of those target group, expecially thanks to increase of its self-awarness, self esteem and body-mind integrity

The results that the project are:

1. Intelectual outputs:
– Handbook for adult educators – that is describing the theories of using the dance and movement therapies in the group or individual sessions in activities with adults. This intellectual output will contribute to the profesionalization of adult educators and their extent in terms of documentation.
– testing dance and movement therapy sessions in adult education field – there will be organized workshops with the target group (people from different background: with social dizadvantages, refugees, migrants, people with physical disabilities, people with psychological disorders or emotional issues), that will offer conclusions about the efficiency of dance activities with adults.
– web platform used for elearning and for the proffesional development of adult educators and for extent of organizations capacity to organize activities with adults from different backgrounds. The web platform will be used also for the dissemination of the other intellectual outputs and of the project, organizations and financer.
– training kit for educators – this is a collection of concrete curricula for dance and movement activities and sessions with adults, described in specific ways for each type of background: migrants and refugees, people with physical disabilities, people with psychological issues.

All the outputs developed have adaptations for virtual context and for COVID situation, according to the new reality that affected the project during the last part of the implementation.

2. Training activity – all the team members participated on a training course organized by the french partner (with the biggest expertise on dance and movement activities), in which the adult educators and the representatives of the partner organizations were trained in the methodology of using dance in adult sessions.

3. Another results are the ones obtained after the whole project implementation and are responding to the proffesionalization of adult educators and the development of adult education field in general. After the project completion, all the organizations that participated in the project are able to conduct dance activities for their target group, to train other adult educators in this methodology and have in their portfolio a great expertise in this field that melts art-therapy, nonformal education and adult education, for a increased efficiency in raising the life quality of people, no matter the culture or the social status. These results remain available also after the project completion as it is described in the field addressed to sustainability.

The project was 30 months long, since November 2018 to April 2021, due to the COVID situation.

Project Website

https://lifelongdancing.aspaymcyl.org/en/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97768 Eur

Project Coordinator

FUNDACION ASPAYM CASTILLA Y LEON & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Cie ESSEVESSE
• ASOCIATIA INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARE SI STUDIUL CONSTIINTEI CUANTICE
• CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE PER LA PROMOZIONE DELL’EDUCAZIONE E LO SVILUPPO ASSOCIAZIONE
• Association Euni Partners