Lovearth through Art Erasmus Project

Project Title

Lovearth through Art

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The strategic partnership “Lovearth through Art” was conceived by the need of creating a large-scale, recognizable and shared space about the performing arts meant as a powerful tool of social integration and inclusion.
It is the result of a previous cooperation among the partners involved in the project: Immaginaria coop Sociale (Italy), Fez-Landesmusikakademie (Germany), Stowarzyszenie Artystów BLISKI WSCHÓD (Poland), Education studio (Romania), Albergar-te (Portugal) .
The objectives of our strategic partnership are, above all: enhance the cooperation among the partners involved; increase the process of exchanging the good practices on the themes of the performing arts with a social impact and social media communication; improove the competences and techniques of our trainers in performing arts and social media, increase and experiment new methods of social inclusion through performing arts.
The direct participants of the activities inside this strategic partnership were 160: their profile was mainly depicted by a strong motivation in participating in and starting a path of professional training and growth. In general they were trainers, social workers, training artists, cultural operators interested in social communication 2.0.
The activities realized by the partnership were: 3 administration and management meetings (kick-off meeting, mid-term meeting, final evaluation meeting), 6 international training meetings in the sphere of social media communication, 5 international training courses dedicated to the development of inclusion techniques through the use of the performing arts (theater, music, dance, impro-teather, integrated arts).
The general methodology of the project was the “Experiential Learning” known also as “Learning by doing”, “Peer to peer” and “Coaching”. These methods were allow, firstly, a deeper learning of competences from the trainers’ inputs, secondly, the sharing and exchange of the knowledge among all the participants.
The results of the project were a platform on the web on the theme of the performing arts for social inclusion; a short video-documentary summarizing the whole experience of the partnership and the improvement of the participants’ competences in the artistic and social field; the social-media-communication, and a wider dissemination of the artistic practice in an adult age.
The impact was initially measurable by the partner prganizations, which, through this partnership, had the opportunity to increase knowledge and competences of their workers; then, the results were extended also to other associations, organizations and bodies operating in the same field.
The potential benefits on the long run was to generate a real virtuous cooperation path among the partner organizations, first; then, among the other fields of performing arts and social media communication, in favor of a social improvement and conception of more and more inclusive society.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121020 Eur

Project Coordinator

Cooperativa Sociale Immaginaria A R.L.Onlus & Country: IT

Project Partners

• FEZ-Berlin , Kinder-, Jugend- und Familienzentrum (KJfz-L-gBmbH)
• Albergar-te, associação cultural
• Asociatia Education Studio
• Stowarzyszenie Artystów BLISKI WSCHÓD