<< Objectives >>To develop a NEW MODEL OF WORK WITH SENIORS BASED ON CREATIVITY AND PARTICIPATION IN CULTURE during and after a pandemic.To create innovative tools for educators working with seniors.To raise level of key competences among seniors in the area of understanding and creating information, ICT, personal, social and in the field of learning as well as cultural awareness and expression.To activate seniors and to support intergenerational dialogue.To strengthen the potential of partner organizations<< Implementation >>ACTIVITIES•4 international meetings of staff and educators working with seniors combined with workshops;•Developing of innovative educational materials in an international team of experts: 20 SCENARIOS OF CREATIVE WALKS and 20 SCENARIOS OF HYBRID CREATIVE AND ART WORKSHOPS for seniors;•8 dissemination workshops for seniors (4 workshops in each country);•2 dissemination conferences addressed to institutions working with seniors.<< Results >>Project consists in developing innovative educational tools for organisations &educators working with seniors. It will support them in difficult times &enable the continuation of activitiesAlsoIncreasing participants’ linguistic, intercultural, substantive competences.Increasing potential of partner organizations thanks to the experiences' exchange &gaining new tools for working with senior groups.Activation of seniors in the local environment.Internationalization of the leader's activities

"The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact at all levels of the economy, causing the global crisis. The cultural and creative sector in particular felt the effects of a critical situation (restrictions or closure of theatres, concert halls, outdoor events, art workshops, etc.), and the sanitary regime caused that mobile people, with knowledge of operating in the network, adapted and transferred their activities to the internet. However, a group of artists, especially artists with disabilities, do not have the basic knowledge on how to do it: from material preparation, technical service and promotion. The key task is to provide solutions (acquisition of new skills, competences) to create opportunities for this group to be creative and artistic in the new reality. An artist with a disability cannot be allowed to be excluded from social, cultural and professional life due to the lack of the necessary skills and competences enhancing creativity. The answer to this problem is the project ""Artist with disabilities online"". The project is primarily intended to support disabled artists in gaining competences in the preparation of an artistic offer and its presentation on the web, i.e. preparation of film and photographic material, its processing in an appropriate program and placing it on the web on the appropriate portal, as well as promotion and marketing. ""Support for creativity and cultural awareness"" and thus ""support for the creation of new skills pathways"" and ""support people in acquiring and improving basic skills and key competence s"" are the main priorities of the project ""Artist with disabilities online "".Participation in the training of artists with disabilities and their assistants will contribute to the promotion of the activity of artists with disabilities in the network - social inclusion through art, will strengthen the aspects of creativity in non-formal education, will enable the use of digital means in adapting cultural assets and events to new circumstances. It will also enable the establishment of new networks and cooperation models (international workshops). The target group are artists from various fields of art: musicians, singers, actors and visual artists - those who create and present their works to a wide audience.Three training sessions will be organized, one at each of the partners (Cultural Centre Wroclaw-West - Poland, Idea - Spain, Apei Centre Alsace - France), during which artists with disabilities and their assistants will learn how to prepare materials for the presentation of their work on the Internet, where to post it and how to promote it to reach the audience.Training 1. Photographic and film material - participation of 30 people, 10 each (5 artists with disabilities, 5 assistants) from Poland, France and SpainTraining 2. Processing of photographic and film material - participation of 30 people, 10 each (5 artists with disabilities, 5 assistants) from Poland, France and SpainTraining 3. Artist in the network - participation of 30 people, 10 each (5 artists with disabilities, 5 assistants) from Poland, France and SpainThe results that we will achieve by implementing the project: ""Artist with disabilities online"" are closely related to our main goal and specific goals.The results achieved during the project implementation include:- establishing contacts with artists from partner countries, exchange of experiences,- possibility of entering the international arena- the possibility of joint creation of disabled artists from Poland, Spain and France- acquiring new technical skills and thus broadening qualifications and professional competences through participation in international training (C1, C2, C3)-developing language skills,Long-term results: -obtaining new competences and technical knowledge enabling the preparation of an artistic offer to new circumstances by adapting it to presentation on the web,- introducing new solutions to the business,- the possibility of raising professional qualifications- the possibility of earning money by providing services consisting in adapting the offer of other artists and placing it on the web- opening up to new solutions-developing and introducing the intellectual result to the market: script/report (O1) containing both knowledge about the basics of presenting creativity on the web and the principles of adapting the artistic offer to the market needs in a crisis situation."

The project CHEFS (Cultural Heritage through the learning of English, French and Spanish as a foreign language) has been successfully completed and after three years, we are satisfied to have been involved in this project. During this time, we have succeeded in engaging many students and teachers from different schools in different activities, and we are proud to present the results. Our students have improved the target language through the cultural heritage not only of their country, but also of the other partner countries of the project. Furthermore, we (both students and teachers) have exchanged experiences, knowledge, and ways of working, which have enriched our teaching and learning practice and broadened horizons. Being able to work with people from other countries has been a paramount motivation while carrying out the activities as students could interact in real everyday life situations.The objectives of the project have been achieved by improving the cultural awareness and European citizenship of adult learners and teaching staff through the discovery and promotion of European cultural heritage whilst using a variety of activities and learning techniques. From a linguistic point of view, foreign language acquisition has been optimized; language skills of students of English, French and Spanish both in and outside the classroom have been enhanced; social skills promoted; individual self-confidence boosted and autonomous and peer learning engaged.Sixty-seven students and accompanying persons took part in the mobilities. This figure would have been even higher had we been able to perform C4 in Brussels, a mobility we had to cancel due to covid. The profile of the vast majority of students who participated in the mobilities was that of people who had never had the opportunity to participate in a European project before. Apart from the possibility of putting the language studied into practice, all these people were able to meet people from other countries and therefore get to know other cultures and establish links that go beyond the CHEFS project. Moreover, our project has not only benefited the sixty-seven participants mentioned before, but also those who, in a direct or indirect way, have participated in the proposed activities, a total of about 3000 people.Apart from the activities carried out during the mobilities, we have undertaken other tasks, in order to achieve the objectives that we had initially set. Most of these activities have been collected in a downloadable handbook available in the project blog https://erasmuschefs.com, which includes the record of all the transnational meetings, activities, mobilities, impressions of students, dissemination, etcetera.Last but not least, the CHEFS project has been a motivational approach to second language teaching and learning for all the individuals somehow involved in the project. We strongly believe that we have succeeded in conveying the importance of cultural heritage when learning a foreign language. Going to class is important, but second language learning goes beyond the classroom, and this is what we have promoted with the CHEFS project. Nowadays, students who have experienced the CHEFS project are eager to undertake activities outside the class by exploring the surrounding cultural heritage and establishing contacts with students from other countries they share the same interests with, such as the learning of a foreign language through its monuments, legends, food, traditions, folk and music.After this three-year experience, we are convinced of the merits of our methodology and are happy to observe how our activities are not limited to the classroom and the language only. We are sending confident, multi-lingual and skilled ambassadors of the European project into the world and will continue to work with the learning outcomes and methodology of the CHEFS project, in order to also maintain and further expand our international network of participants.

"On European scale, this project directly addressed current common challenging issue in all European countries e.g. European citizens reluctance to migrants. This project objective was to influence adult European citizens and encourage them to take action in favor of a more tolerant Europe, respectful of human rights and obligations, which entails a refugee population exceeding our borders.Specific objectives were: to improve and enrich teaching tools in adult education for trainers and staff working with adults, to promote voluntary activities for the benefit of migrants, to foster active citizenship and communication by initiating intercultural activities.The results of this project generated and disseminated positive messages, aimed at achieving compatible coexistence respectful of one another European citizens and the ""newcomers"" (refugees, migrants, repatriated persons).This project addressed adult training institutions, trainers and workers in those institutions and adult learners from our regions.In order to change mind-set and attitudes of European citizens we need to start the intercultural education from adults as they are the ones that create and influence mind-set and attitudes of their children. Development of tolerant and open society depends on example given and passed from adults to children.To reach the project objectives partners' institutions searched for innovative teaching methods that were tested in this specific context. Those methods were gathered in the training Pack available on-line, ready to implement and use by adult training centres across Europe.The results acquired during project duration include: - methodological guide for teachers containing set of 6 innovative methods with 3 implementation courses each, - pilot training sessions, - marketing and dissemination materials, knowledge and experience gained by the participants: staff and trainers / facilitators / educators were active participants of the project from the very beginning. They exchanged experience and shared their knowledge on the new methods. They worked together to prepare the methodological tool and they also conducted pilot training sessions in their institutions. Learners were part of pilot training sessions and shared their feedback on the new methods.- greater cultural awareness - first of all the training sessions were focused on intercultural and cultural differences. Secondly partners had a chance to visit their countries and institutions, to learn about local specific contexts, culture, mentality and so on. During transnational meetings there were intercultural events organised to enhance interaction and learning process about other cultures."

"We chose Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in adult teaching as the priority of our project because ICTs are playing an important role in the life of many people nowadays.Learning digital skills are required keys to society and economic development. As modern societies and economies are changing due to globalization and technological progress, a fundamental transformation of education and training (E&T) throughout Europe is required to achieve the knowledge and skills needed for growth, employment and active participation in society. ""Digital Storytelling Tools for Adult Educators"" ( DST)- exchange of good practice Erasmus+ Programme strategic partnership is organized by UG KLARA I ROSA (Serbia), The Akademie für Politische Bildung und demokratiefördernde Maßnahmen (Austria), VšĮ EDUKACINIAI PROJEKTAI (Lithuania), Associação Recreativa Cultural e Social de Silveirinhos (Portugal) and Libera Università Europea Terza età Campania (Italy). The primary goal of this project is to allow partner organizations to reinforce EU networks for teaching/learning ICT process increasing. The adult educators and staff will enhance the capacity to work at the transnational level, sharing and exchanging ideas, improving knowledge about practices and DST methods as an inclusive teaching technique.The project partners are all actors involved in the adult education field. The partners come from Serbia, Austria, Lithuania, Portugal and Italy and most of them have already gained experience in the Program Erasmus +.Starting from experiences and good practices owned by the partner institutions on Digital Storytelling method implementation our international consortium will improve adult educators' competencies in using digital storytelling tools in order to create in their classrooms the multimedia projects. ""Digital Storytelling Tools for Adult Educators"" partnership focuses on the use and adaptation of different digital tools in the ICT teaching /learning adult process. Educators will be able to use in the educational system digital storytelling at all levels to help students develop writing, presentation, organization, and problem-solving skills to reach an effective digital inclusion.Our project activities are planned to better prepare and deploy the education and training of professionals for equity, diversity and inclusion challenges in the learning environment using DST method as a motivation strategy to involve all adult people in the digital era.We planned three international project meetings in Italy, mid-term in Serbia a final in Austria, one short-term joint staff training in Portugal focused on digital storytelling method and digital tool skills adult acquiring to enrich educators curricula.The training activities are designed to motivate and encourage participants to learn and test DST method in their adult classrooms. The participants will be trained to teach low-qualified adults/seniors low - digital skilled adults included immigrants on autobiographical approach in digital education.The consortium will provide the following results:-Data sources included field notes and digital stories created by the adult students.-A virtual exhibition of digital stories made by training course participants.-Educator’s toolkit collecting and suggesting digital tools, best practices, improved exchanges during international meetings.-Promotional material design and distribution.During the project activities development, the additional educational experiences, workshops and some cultural related activities are planned in order to reach further impacts, not only digital capability and awareness. Some experts on adult education and DST method will join these mini courses and seminars. For dissemination activities and sustainability activities, a plan and task sharing are prepared, and every partner is given some responsibility for these phases of the project. The project will involve actively relevant stakeholders of local communities and associated partners in the world of adult digital education. These have already been identified at the application stage. They will be involved in local activities and will bring their experiences in storytelling method implementation.The partner organizations will develop and reinforce EU adult educators networks for using the DST method in the teaching/learning process helping to fill the digital divide across Europe."