Using Performing Arts for Building Key Competences of Marginalised Adults Erasmus Project

Project Title

Using Performing Arts for Building Key Competences of Marginalised Adults

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Access for disadvantaged; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

European societies are prosperous and affluent places to live offering high levels of social protection and ranking highly in terms of wellbeing, human development and quality of life. The EU is in full recovery mode experiencing strong growth and the lowest levels of unemployment since 2009. Despite this there are many Europeans who are still concerned for future generations with growing threats and uncertainties both at home and abroad; increasing inequalities and a growing gap between the haves and the have-nots; a resurgence of racism and xenophobia; and the viral spreading of misinformation and fake news. Building common values into all learning environments can help mitigate intolerance, polarisation and divisive nationalism.

If education is to play any role in the life of the hardest to reach adults who are furthest away from mainstream provision or for the growing communities of recently arrived migrants throughout Europe, the design and delivery of the educational process needs to be completely rethought. Within the education sector as a whole, adult education is regarded as the poor relation where the provision of high quality in-service training for the continuous professional development of staff is concerned. Within the adult education sector itself, there are further disparities with fewer training supports provided for those educators working in informal community based adult education programmes than exists for those in more formal adult education environments.

The Artistic Licence consortium believes that the first step in redefining an education service that is capable of engaging those furthest from provision is the design and implementation of bespoke in-service training for an elite team of adult educators and resourcing them with a full complement of bespoke educational materials that can help overcome multi-faceted learning difficulties. Educators are the key enablers to support disengaged adults and members of migrant communities on an educational journey to the highly valued key competences that are essential for social inclusion and personal fulfillment.

The Artistic Licence project will produce the following intellectual outputs to support its objectives:
1) A tool-kit of resources to build basic skills and competences that are based around the different performing arts disciplines
2) A train-the-trainer course for adult educators to enable them harness the potential of the performing arts for building basic skills and key competences
3) A bespoke online learning environment to support mobile learning
4) A thought provoking policy paper that looks at the role of alternative educational approaches in addressing the needs of marginalised adults

The Commission Communication on “Strengthening European Identity through Education and Culture” calls for investing in people and their education and to make sure that education and training systems help all learners acquire the knowledge, skills and competences that are deemed essential in today’s world. This is the key objective of the Artistic Licence project.

Project Website

https://artisticlicence.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 223086,61 Eur

Project Coordinator

Creative Exchange UK Limited & Country: UK

Project Partners

• The Hub Nicosia Ltd
• OSRODEK SZKOLENIOWO-BADAWCZY INNEO
• ALIANCE LEKTORU a KONZULTANTU
• FUTURE IN PERSPECTIVE LIMITED
• Hub Karelia Oy
• Rightchallenge – Associação