"The aim of this project was to find common solutions among partner countries how to carry out properly educational (general education and professional competences development), social rehabilitation and psychological programs for prisoners, also to release the official major publication, containing the accumulated experience of international educators. Also an important part of the project was the teaching perspectives of foreigners, guidelines and strategies, which as the immigration grows and the amount of refugees in Europe keeps drastically rising, become more and more important in refugee centers, as well as in prisons. Another aspect – was to investigate personal connections between inmates and their families, because this is the most important thing if we are trying to succeed in social rehabilitation program. Successful communication among partners and sharing best practice and learning from difficulties that others has faced allow teachers, social workers and vocational training personnel to create a favorable environment for all socially vulnerable parties to integrate successfully into society and become a valuable part of it. Such point of view can help to protect the rights of people living in Europe to education and social security. The pivot of the project — partners efforts to learn how to create and/or improve the learning environment without discriminatory treatment to people with other nationalities or prisoner statuses. The equal cooperation among all the partners in all phases of the project helped to achieve this goal in different forms: the environment in the foreigners classes woukd be more friendly, if educators would pay the attention to the advices that we give in our final product ""Teacher's guide"", because in this publishment we were focusing on many different aspects of communication between our students, who usually are with various living experiences, that came from different backgrounds.. The collaboration of partner countries helped us to create the training, education and re-socialization guide for imprisoned people. The international experiences that are collected in this teaching guide allow successfully gain knowledge and improve the adults teaching skills in many areas of professionals working in prisons. Each partner country’s active proceeding in the project made a majour influence creating and systematizing the existing experiences into one publishment and it also gave to the project a nodge in the field of preparation of the imprisoned persons for life in freedom. This dedication will not only make the impact nationally, but also internationally."

The Heritage in Motion project promotes knowledge of local and European heritage in order to foster its values among citizens, to recognise it as an essential resource for the development of European society and to contribute to its dissemination and conservation. The project also develops and implements innovative teaching methods that value the experience and skills of people over 50. The proposed action-research methodology offers this group the opportunity to continue lifelong learning in innovative environments and to be an active part of society, thus avoiding their exclusion and promoting intergenerational cohesion.The main objectives of the project are: - To promote the cultural, cognitive, physical, and scientific development of the elderly.- To foster knowledge of heritage and the values of the European Year of Heritage.- To develop and implement innovative methods of teaching older people. - To promote among older people high quality activities and research of social relevance to minimise the impact of ageing and retirement.The profile of participants is varied: - Adult trainers: minimum 5 teachers per country, specialists in subjects relevant to the thematic of the project's theme, preferably with experience in international projects and linked to the consortium organisations.- Students: 20 persons over 50 per country. The partners are responsible for establishing the necessary requirements. - Committee of Experts: panel of academics, scientists and professionals providing a broad overview of the heritage. At least 5 members per country.The project resulted in the HeiM Methodological Guide - Innovative Methodologies for Adult Education in Cultural Heritage and Active Ageing. The process had two cycles, structured in three phases (orientation, intervention, and evaluation); this methodology ensured the quality of the process through an evaluative system of triangulation. FIRST CYCLE: Preliminary study based on needs analysis,1. Orientation: Focus group with the Committee of Experts and mapping to survey the cultural heritage offer for older adults.2. Intervention: Survey to find out the relevance and interest of heritage resources for the target audience, and the tools and skills needed to transmit heritage in an appropriate way.3. Evaluation: Committee of Experts' evaluation reports, national report and comparative report to ensure triangulation of results. SECOND CYCLE: HeiM Methodological Guide - Innovative Methodologies for Adult Education in Cultural Heritage and Active Ageing1. Orientation: Training programme focusing on heritage subjects, active ageing, English, and new technologies. 2. Intervention: After their training, participants were able to undertake the research and design of 21 routes applying professional techniques. Writing of the guide.3. Evaluation - reports based on surveys to the students and the Committee of Experts about the training programme and the research of the routes. The results obtained belongs to two categories: TANGIBLE RESULTS: - National and comparative reports on the mapping and survey. - Suggestions for improvement from the Committee of Experts on the mapping, survey, training programme and routes design. - Training Programme design. - Design of 21 Active Routes in 5 languages. - National Routes Report. - Publication of the routes. - Methodological Guide in digital format and in 5 languages. - Multiplier events for the presentation of results. INTANGIBLE RESULTS- Confirmation of the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.- Applicability of the skills learnt in future projects.- Recognition of the potential and social relevance of older people.- Promotion of heritage and involvement in its conservation.- Promotion of lifelong learning and active ageing.IMPACTThe consortium continues to disseminate the results, and has achieved impact in:- Adult education institutions: the Centro de Formación, Innovación y Recursos para el Profesorado (CEFIRE) organised a course to implement the methodology created in the project, which offered 16 new proposals based on the guide; the U3As in the UK and Jávea and the UPV are studying its implementation.- Tourist boards and tourist offices, museums and town councils are using the routes created by the partners and find it interesting to use the methodology for the design of active heritage routes for older people.- Elderly people, who have created the HeiM Club in Spain and Iceland to continue researching and creating routes and have requested new training programmes using the methodology used in the project.

We started this project believing the craft sector is important both for the preservation of local culture and heritage, contributing to the uniqueness of the regions, regional appeal to its visitors, inhabitants and to the regional economy as a source of local employment, and social and economic stability and European countries have long traditions and culture of crafts. Today, the crafts sector in general in the EU faces several important problems, such as the strong global competition of cheaper products; loss of old skills and traditions; difficulties of getting into the markets; losing the customer appeal of traditional crafts' products; (lack of financial resources and economic capacity, and the most dangerous of all, the new generations don’t recognize it as something valuable. Therefore, our partnership at the beginning of the project set the two overall objectives: raising awareness of the cultural heritage of each partner country and emphasizing the importance of the craft industry in the European Union, raising the question of its importance in the economy and development of each project partner region. Moreover, the specific objectives of the project were: 1) To learn from each other about the ways of promoting traditional crafts among adults via crafts workshops 2) To exchange the possible ways for improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities in the art craft, tailored to the specific needs of individual adults 3) To raise educators' competences in teaching students traditional crafts by exchanging practice from 4 different countries 4) To disseminate the project results and raise awareness among all target groups – adult students, policy, and decision-makers at regional, national, and EU-levels, craftsmen and craft sector stakeholders, and general public thus raising awareness about each partner’s cultural identity.All these objectives set at the beginning of the projects were met until the end of the project. The participants that took part in the project were 60 employees of four participating organizations,30 teachers/ trainers from four countries, and 233 students who attended art craft courses from four partner organizations. Apart from the Transnational project meetings which we used for good practice exchange, the other activities we undertook were desk research about all topics relevant to the project, conducted surveys among teachers and students, collected testimonies among students, and a list of recommendations on all relevant topics. The list of recommendations will be available on web pages of all partner institutions and useful to all stakeholders interested in cultural heritage, its promotion, craft sector, and its importance.The results of the project are good practice exchange about the ways of promoting cultural heritage through art crafts, learning from the experience of four partner organizations about marketing strategies that we use in order to make art crafts visible, raised competences of our teachers/trainers about teaching about cultural heritage through art crafts, and the good practice exchange about tailor-made programs for specific groups of students.- The impact we succeeded in is the most visible in the:- higher awareness of participants, participating organizations, target groups and relevant stakeholders of the importance of preserving the cultural heritage, in the European context- getting knowledge of the ways and techniques of promoting cultural heritage through art workshops- practitioners now aware of the possibilities in teaching about cultural heritage- practitioners acknowledged themselves as valuable contributors to the general culture.The special impact the project has made on participants who have some educational or geographic difficulties, or some kind of physical impairment or unemployed people. They will be given the possibility to attend these craft workshops designed to suit their needs and requirements. It can bring both higher competitiveness on the labor market and a sense of self-confidence in acquiring new skills and learning about the cultural heritage in the same way.Longer/term benefits for all four partner organizations are better educational offers, more skillful teachers/trainers, quality programs, and above all better awareness of different ways of promoting cultural heritage as a way of keeping each country's identity and as a reminder to the future generations of their own past.

<< Objectives >>The project aims to promote the Erasmus + Program in the principles and opportunities it offers to organizations that target their activities to seniors and to the people who belong to these organizations.Through actions at local and transnational level and in a perspective of intergenerational dialogue, the project aims to contribute to the construction of a common European identity, involving organizations and people in a path of discovery of the Program.<< Implementation >>The project includes a series of activities, at local and transnational level, aimed at seniors, in collaboration with the organizations that represent them. The planned activities are: the organization of a series of meetings for the presentation of the Erasmus + program at the local level; a transnational laboratory; a second series of meetings for the return of the experience to the territory; sharing the experience online, through the creation of a training module.<< Results >>The results we want to achieve together are: the improvement of the capacities of organizations for seniors in promoting the opportunities that the program offers them, in collaboration with the youth organizations that represent the soul of the Erasmus + program; greater involvement of seniors, with a view to developing personal skills and enhancing them, in building a more inclusive European society and identity.

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