Unnecessary – useful and aesthetic. Creative approach to recycling. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Unnecessary – useful and aesthetic. Creative approach to recycling.

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: Creativity and culture; Environment and climate change; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

The partnership project “Unnecessary – useful and aesthetic. Creative approach to recycling “is a part of an idea of sustainable development and lifelong learning. The project assumes socially inclusive activities, promotion of proper behavior in relation to the environment and preservation of the natural balance. The project is also devoted to the contribution of citizens to environmental protection and the creative use of waste in art, art therapy and to improving the ecological awareness of adults, including those at risk of marginalization (disabled, senior citizens , migrants and refugees). The partnership consists of 7 organizations: 3 organizations from leading countries in environmental protection: Austria and Sweden as well as organizations from Portugal, Italy, Croatia and Poland – the countries falling behind in this ranking. The main objective of the project is to raise the level of educational qualifications and the target group will be educators working with adults, including those at risk of marginalization. Our project involves the following goals: developing cooperation and innovation of educators working to raise ecological awareness and creative activity of adults; raising and broadening the professional qualifications of people working with adults; dissemination of art-therapy methods of work among staff working with people from communities at risk of marginalization and people working for these environments as well as increasing the chances of developing individual educators participating in the project; expanding knowledge and skills in the care of the natural environment and related to the subject of the natural environment social responsibility as well as expanding cultural competences and developing the creativity of employees and volunteer partners working with partner organizations; increasing the awareness of adults, including disadvantaged people, regarding the impact of pro-ecological behavior on the natural environment, health and well-being. As a result of the provided training, thematic organization of conferences, workshop classes and open demonstrations of working methods, the planned results will include: increase of professional skills of educators in the field of working with adults, including those at risk of marginalization and people working for these communities; acquiring new educators and improving existing psychological, interpersonal and methodological skills in working with a group, necessary during animating educational classes with the use of art-therapy methods; increasing the chances of individual development and raising the self-esteem of educators participating in the project as well as employees acting for the benefit of the at risk of marginalization. The recipients will be indirect participants in the project dissemination activities at local and international level. They will be both educators and recipients led by educators’ classes. Around 1000 people will be involved in the project. The result of partner visits will be getting to know the conditions of work related to the same field in other EU countries and learning about the methods of work and their implementation, which gives the opportunity to impact each of the partner organizations. In the project, we are planning to deal with sustainable consumption and create a separate publication about it – a handbook containing a program of two-day workshops “Upcycle of used electrical and electronic equipment”. The aim of the workshop is to raise awareness of the available natural resources in electrical and electronic equipment and the need for proper processing of e-waste. A durable permanent result of the project will be a generally available project website, photos and description methods of work on the websites of partner organizations and the handbook. The results of the project will be placed on the platform of European Commision EPALE. In this way, we would like to assure our design a special European dimension of education in the field of open educational resources.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 155305 Eur

Project Coordinator

Miejska Strefa Kultury w Łodzi & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Muzeji i galerije Konavala
• CIAPE – CENTRO ITALIANO PER L’APPRENDIMENTO PERMANENTE
• DIE WIENER VOLKSHOCHSCHULEN GMBH
• ADCL – Associação para o Desenvolvimento das Comunidades Locais
• ARGE grenzen erzaehlen
• Norrköpings stadsmuseum