Solidarity through art and human library Erasmus Project

Project Title

Solidarity through art and human library

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social dialogue; Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

SolidARTbrary ( Solidarity through art and human library) is a KA2 strategic partnership project that aims at promoting tolerance, solidarity and social inclusion while developing the competencies of educators, multiplicators, pattern-makers and other people who support adult learners.

In order to change the patterns and achieve the aim of the projects, we want to develop and pilot an innovative educational methodology for adults based on principles of Human library, dramatic and art expression and mobile movie making. It will serve as an educational material while working with topics of stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination.

The collaboration of three experienced organizations Centrum Inicjatyw UNESCO, Kulturno izobrazevalno drustvo PiNA and LOS-Liberecka obcanska
spolecnost, z. s will result in an attractive and practical manual/guide, ready to be implemented by organizations and institutions working with the target groups of adult learners.

Objectives of the projects are:
1. To improve/develop the methodology of Human library into innovative and modern methodology through implementing media skills, oral history methodology and art expression.
2. To raise up the quality of lifelong learning methods through developing a new methodology with a high level of quality and TO DO kanban scheme.
3. To make the methodology as a digital open source for all educators without a long preparatory process used in the traditional understanding of Human library methodology through step-by-step open source manual and case studies.
4. To raise up several competencies of the primary target group – to be able to manage difficult topics connected with discrimination and xenophoby through complex and holistic methodology.
5. To raise up the capacity and expertize of involved NGOs through common methodology transferable to the whole world.
6. To strengthen the cooperation between local partners and multiplicators through multiplier event and cooperative environment during the project meetings.

Our participants are closely connected to partner organizations and local partners (Regional Library in Liberec (CZE), Psychological Educational Centre (PL) and Youth Centre Koper (SLO) and are adult educators, teachers and librarians with a professional institutional background of NGOs, libraries, universities and schools
Participants in numbers:
There will be 4 participants per partner involved in the transnational meeting (including project managers and experts)
There will be a group of 30 ,,living books” facing discrimination and the same number of adult participants for the piloting phase organized by local partners.
There will be about 100 representatives of pattern makers (out of them, 20 educators and decision makers, 10 representatives of „living books“ out of pilot phases and 10 journalists) in the multiplier event.

The activity will last for 18 months. There are 4 transnational meetings happening in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia, a multiplier event and piloting of the new methodology, provided by local partners.

The main activity will result in creating an open source, complex and holistic manual for educators, supporting equity and tolerance through social dialogue.
Other results will be reflected in multiplier event, follow up activities and transnational and local partnerships, built on common interest and work of experts (coaches, educators and technicians) and local partners.

The impact on participants, partners and stakeholders will show mainly after the project and after implementing the methodology.
The primary target group (educators, patter-makers and multipliers) will develop new competencies connected to the topics of the project that will increase the quality of their work and enable them to have impact on the secondary target group, victims of stereotypization, leading to social inclusion through social dialogue.

The partners and stakeholders on local level will use the methodology to foster their status at a regional or national level which allows them to reach out to more adults and therefore increase the number of adults in the learning process. They will gain project management skills

On a European level, a community around the new methodology will be created. New partnerships among European countries will be established and the possibility of future cooperation in an intercultural setting will be presented. Also, we hope for a possible dialogue through the methodology with politicians and decision makers in public as well as private sector.

The sustainable benefits of the project results will be ensured by the multiplication effect of using the methodology for educational and research purposes. We will register a trademark to keep the methodology as an open source. Like that, the methodology can reach any European adult education organizations and public libraries. The methodology will become a brand, accesible for everybody interested in adult education and promoting solidarity.

Project Website

http://www.story-cafe.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 51267,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centrum Inicjatyw UNESCO & Country: PL

Project Partners

• LOS-Liberecka obcanska spolecnost, z. s.
• KULTURNO IZOBRAZEVALNO DRUSTVO PINA