Moving Memories. Creative Drives for a Changing Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Moving Memories. Creative Drives for a Changing Europe

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The history of Europe is full of breaks and new beginnings. New orders have emerged from crises and wars. People were required to understand what was going on and to find solutions. The European peace project is a response to history and its destructions in the 20th century. By active remembering, reconciliation has more and more been made possible and relations between people of the various European countries are surprisingly resilient, even in the current crises. Nevertheless, nationalist ideas are gaining influence, Euro-scepticism is spreading and a need for stability is being articulated, which goes along with stereotypes, exclusion and group-focused hostility. It becomes clear that history can be used politically and that the conscious or unconscious reference to history shapes the self-perception as a citizen of a society. By exchanging on the past, attitudes, values and interpretations of the present are ‘negotiated’, belonging is established and a mental framework of the future outlined. The critical, differentiating historical discourse is therefore not a luxury, but essential for the democracy development within societies.

The project brings together museum educators, trainers, teachers, theatre makers, and scientists from six countries who aim to promote such exchanges across Europe. For this purpose they are developing a self-training curriculum primarily for adult educators in seven languages. Their contributions focus on profound society changes (transformations) and how they are discussed in the present. A discursive approach is deliberately chosen to counteract the impression that history is “objective” and only one interpretation is permissible. In learning and training activities, the partners exchange on the contributions and test corresponding didactic suggestions that are intended to focus even on moving aspects of history and to foster creative drives for dealing with current challenges. The results will be presented to a broad public at a symposium in Berlin at the project’s end and at local multiplying events organised by the project partners.

Ongoing monitoring and evaluation activities ensure the high quality of the project and its results. The edu-kit contributes to increasing the quality of adult education offers, to taking up more society’s transformations and their learning opportunities for the present and to making European dimensions of historical events more self-evident.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 192326 Eur

Project Coordinator

weltgewandt. Institut für interkulturelle politische Bildung e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Helinä Rautavaaran etnografisen museon säätiö
• Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi
• ACTION SYNERGY SA
• UG Dah Teatar
• ASOCIACION MALAGUENA DE EDUCACION Y FORMACION EUROPEA (A.M.E.F.E.)