Sign Language , international potential Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sign Language , international potential

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Museums should be more inclusive, receiving visitors (employing workers) from target groups which are now mostly absent in our museums.
By producing multi-media productions, workshops, apps, games etc in a European Sign Language in cooperation with people out of the deaf communities, young creative people from art schools and universities and professionals in the museums, we inspire museums to actively attract visitors and workers from the deaf communities, but also from other groups of disabled persons or people with less chances..
We are convinced that deaf people can inspire creative young people and vice versa with Sign Language as a tool in European perspective.
The project is a result of two parallel developments. The first is the positive, inspiring experience of working together in the KA2 project Inclusive Museums, stimulating to become more inclusive museums by working with volunteers from minorities in a broader sense. The second development is the experience of the COVID-19 crisis, which started just after our successfull second event in Finland. From that moment on we experienced a.o. the importance of digitalisation, of multi media of innovation and creativity. We also saw and experienced the use of sign language in national press conferences about corona. (In the Netherlands it resulted in the popularty of Irma, one of the sign language interpreters and as an effect in the rise of students for Sign Language in Higher Education).
As three museums we decided to apply for this extra call, because the topics coincide perfectly with what we are doing and planning to do.
The focus will be on deaf people, because of the Sign Language and the fact that partner Muzeum Slaskie is already working with this group for years. But by using sign language and by cooperating with the targethroup and young creative people from art schools, we will be able to widen the scope to much more people and creating new groups of visitors to our museums of cultural heritage and educating and training more people in the cultural history of our societies.
With three participants from three museums (representing the various aspects), the project is small. We are sure that even though this is a small project, it can have a big impact, because we can work effectively together and cooperate with various stakeholders.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 77618 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stichting Museum BroekerVeiling & Country: NL

Project Partners

• Muzeum Slaskie w Katowicach
• Rautatiemuseon Säätiö sr