Predelana zgodba Erasmus Project

Project Title

Predelana zgodba

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: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The project aims at stimulating curiosity, innovative ideas and awareness about general consumption, waste production and therefore reuse of waste material among the involved educators. The main goal is to create a partnership for a better awareness of the target group educators working with vulnerable group – prisoners in the areas of sustainable development, environmental issues and reuse of waste material.
The main result of the project is to disseminate ideas to reuse waste material to as many educators as possible and to the general public. The project will establish a consortium of partners working in different fields and performing different activities for vulnerable target groups. Our end users are prisoners.
This will increase the competences and expertise of educators to work with end users (prisoners) and introduce them to innovative working methods. This will allow prisoners to:
– gain new competences,
– higher employability,
– positive self-image,
– raising the quality of life inside the prison.
The project is recognizing the need for new teaching methods and forms of work for the target group and to raise awareness of consumption habits and waste production.
In its annual report 2018, the Ministry of Justice, Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions, states that education can assist in the rehabilitation process and reduce the negative effects of imprisonment, and that special attention should be paid to education.
For these reasons, our project idea aims at four goals:
1. Provide educators with new skills that they can pass on to end users (prisoners).
2. Pilot implementation at the prison in Lithuania.
3. Issue a handbook on reuse of waste material.
4. Exhibition.
We would like to establish network of re-use centers and prisons; in which we will provide prisoners with newly designed educational workshops.
The main purpose of education is to overcome the lack of knowledge about environmental issues, the impact of an individual’s actions on the environment and the behavior itself. In this way, we aim to motivate participants to take action, thereby achieving a change in environmental awareness that is expressed in environmentally friendly behavior.
The objectives of the project are:
1. To develop a handbook for educators on how to reuse waste items
2. To improve the competences of educators to transfer knowledge in the field of re-use and environmental awareness
3. To promote sustainable lifestyles and consumer habits by introducing the 3R concept (reuse, repair, reduce)
4. To organize learning workshop for educators and a pilot implementation in the prison
5. To provide guidance on more diverse teaching techniques, innovative methods for educators to work with prisoners
6. Strengthen the engagement and professional development of educators
7. Testing innovative practices that will prepare educators and end users to become real actors of change (3R concept – reuse, repair, reduce)
8. Raising awareness of the target group of educators and end-users (prisoners) to develop social and work competencies in the circular economy – empowering them to live in scarce resources

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 58796 Eur

Project Coordinator

Center za dopisno izobrazevanje Univerzum & Country: SI

Project Partners

• VsI Socialiniu inovaciju centras
• Associazione Culturale Le Interferenze
• CENTER PONOVNE UPORABE
• Hand In Hand To A Social Tomorrow – HIHTAST vzw