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 items2. To improve the competences of educators to transfer knowledge in the field of re-use and environmental awareness3. 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 prison5. To provide guidance on more diverse teaching techniques, innovative methods for educators to work with prisoners6. Strengthen the engagement and professional development of educators7. 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

"1.Context/background of project:The starting point of this project can be found in the difficulties encountered by the educational staff (educators, teachers, volunteers, etc.) in carrying out their profession in prison. The education in prison is different from the one in schools: it involves many factors linked to the prison context and its organisation, the prisoners, the rules, the organisation of the time, which all influence the teaching activities and make them extremely complex.The peculiarity of the recipients (either waiting for trial or already convicted) conditions their participation in the educational activities. The same can be said for working prisoners, because it can happen that work and teaching sessions are at the same time.For these reasons, the teachers and volunteers involved in the proposed partnership aim to share their experiences, discuss teaching methodologies as well as the encountered criticalities, and compare the best practices. 2.Objectives:The project aims to organise an autobiographical activity within the prisons to promote and encourage the reconsideration of the past and the planning of the future ""beyond the bars"". In short, the goals of ""The chrysalis and the butterfly"" project are :- Creating a space for reflection on specific topics to allow prisoners to redefine their lives during and after their experience in prison;- Strengthening the identity and the self-esteem;- Encouraging and motivating prisoners to describe their personal experiences and to communicate - even within a European context - the difficulties of living in prisons;- Comparing the outcome of the Erasmus project with similar experiences of other European prisons;- Presenting their work to the regional networks operating within the prisons;- Spreading the produced papers and multimedia at the end of the project;- Share the results of the project with the European partners involved;- Making the chosen methodology (autobiography) a common didactic practice in the educational processes for adult prisoners. 3.Number and profile of participants:We expect over 200 detainees to join. In part, they are already involved in autobiographical paths: for them writing has become ""the place of freedom"" where people meet to tell the inner world that is likely to annihilate themselves due to isolation and lack of stimuli.All prison staff, (management, educators, cultural mediators) and voluntary associations present in the various prisons gave their support.Also through their contribution, it will be possible to create a community open to dialogue and exchange, both locally and in a European context. 4.Methodology to be used in carrying out the project: The partners intend to use the autobiographical methodology to promote and encourage the reconsideration of the prisoners’ past and the planning of the future ""beyond the bars"".The project will be based on some paths, ""existential trajectories"" that will be freely used by partners to frame the canvases of prisoners’ lives in an immaterial structure, which will result in a self-reflexive and introspective value through different disciplines or areas. At the end of the project, we will get ""Pictures of an exhibition"", as Musorgsky would say: the writing of oneself (or, in general, the opening of a window on one's own existence) will be understood as a questioning of the identity of the subject, as individual labor, as the assumption of 'self-care', hopefully as the re-elaboration of a trajectory of meaning. 5.Results and impact envisaged:The most concrete result of the project will be the creation of Network of Autobiographical-artistic prison Pedagogy – NAP- which will disseminate,moreover, the manual of autobiographical methodology, the monographs of autobiographical literary texts and theatrical performances with people deprived of their liberty .The contribution of ""The chrysalis and the butterfly"" to penitentiary pedagogy will make it possible to:-Promote new kind of activities among operators involved in detention training and education;-Encourage the practice of using autobiography in the European context;-Promote the research in correctional education field in the European context. 6.The potential longer term benefits:This project aims to obtain the maximum benefit from the activities funded, so that its effects may outlast its two year duration. We wish to underline how collaboration among partners will continue through the usual methods of communication. Therefore we expect to continue to:- Collaborate on the e-Twinning platform; - Define a new Ka229 partnership, possibly aggregating other associations; - Keep the web site updated and collaborate with other networks; - Disseminate and maintain the results of the “The chrysalis and the butterfly”; - Continue to maintain relations of cooperation and friendship between the teachers involved, outlasting the professional aspect."