"As a part of the ""Silver HERITage"" project, we plan to develop a formal and non-formal learning framework related to the organization of classes on the topic of healthy nutrition.The elderly delivering their knowledge and experience will help us to implement the task. Getting to know the methods and solutions used in countries of different cultures - as well as the cuisine and traditions of these countries - will contribute to raising the level of knowledge, qualifications and affect the high quality of our materials.The ""Silver HERITage"" project is a response to the Council’s recommendation of 19 December 2016 on Upskilling Pathways: New Opportunities for Adults, which indicates the need to launch paths to improve basic skills for selected adult target groups.Raising the skills and competences of adults significantly contributes to achieving the strategic objectives of ""Europe 2020"".This project is directed to educators: teachers, tutors and instructors who professionally and reliably educate people at risk of social exclusion through low qualifications, low basic skills, disability, age etc. The expected number of project participants is approximately 70 people.It will consist in developing and testing in practice innovative models of educational support for selected groups of adults (people with low basic skills - according to the 3-step scheme in accordance with the EU Council Recommendation).One of the results of our project will be an intergenerational cookbook, containing good practices, original recipes of older generations, adapted and modified to today's realities and modern needs, as well as interesting workshop suggestions. It will be available, among others on the websites of our organizations and the European Platform for Adult Learning in Europe (EPALE). Classes and workshops will be conducted using an innovative pedagogical method of Action-Learning. It allows project participants to actively search for new solutions and learn through experience, which for people from disadvantaged areas or migrants, as well as people with various disabilities, is an invaluable value in the entire educational process.As a result of the activities, an international group of new educators, socially and culturally active, working for people with fewer opportunities will be created.Thanks to partner cooperation we will get to know the cuisine of our regions / countries. In addition, we will promote healthy eating habits and principles of healthy eating, or the idea of not wasting food.We are aware that all our project partners are selected right and that we can learn a lot from each other. This is the reason why we decided to initiate this cooperation, which aims to create a joint training program and develop materials that contain solutions and innovations.The results will be disseminated in open Internet resources in the national languages of the project partners.Improving the competence of educators will be a valuable contribution to the European area of skills and qualifications. It will have a local, national and European dimension and the final recipients will be students with fewer social opportunities, including the disabled.Good cooperation, efficient and regular communication and partner meetings will be a condition for successful implementation of planned project activities.The project will provide formal and non-formal educational opportunities with a European dimension."

"According to the European Declaration of the Right to Literacy, published by the European Literacy Policy Network (ELINET) in 2016, nearly 55 million adults in Europe lack basic literacy skills, leading to an increased poverty risk, social exclusion and limited possibilities of civil and cultural participation, lower chances for lifelong learning and personal development.Poetry, as a cultural universal and form of communication existing in all countries and among all cultures, can be a particularly interesting means of strengthening the communicative abilities of adults learning to read and write and opening up space for individual growth.The project ""Poetry-based Approach in basic education for Adults"" (POETA) aims to contribute to the self-development and empowerment of people being ""on the way to the written word"" (as opposed to the common term ""functional illiterates""), including first- and second language learners.The approach is intended to offer a complementary or an alternative to traditional concepts of literacy and basic education, which are focused on the integration of people into economic processes and argue in a deficit-oriented manner.In cooperation with culturally diverse European partners, an innovative and holistic concept for working with poetic texts in basic education, presented in an e-book, is to be developed, explored and integrated into teacher training via MOOC. The project aims to develop various creative approaches such as •Intergenerational approaches•Digital storytelling•Music- and art-based approaches•Neuroandragogical approaches.Teachers, trainers, course leaders and planners in adult basic education will benefit from the knowledge and material created by the project. Subsequently, learners in adult basic education programs such as newcomers, elderly people, second chance school attendees and migrants are to be reached by the poetry-pedagogical approach.On a regional, national and systemic level, the project’s general aim is to make a valuable contribution to the increase in literacy, to raise public awareness of the issue and to initiate a general change in attitudes towards the needs and resources of learners. During the 31 months run of the project, the consortium will organise five transnational meetings of all partners, which will be hosted alternately in their countries and cities of location.A short-termed Learning, Teaching and Training Activity bringing all partners together serves the purpose of sharing and further developing the participating teachers’ expertise with regard to existing experience in poetry education work, in specific approaches or in working with specific target groups.At the end of the project, every partner will hold a Multiplier Event in his respective country, reaching out to relevant regional, national or international stakeholders. The main intention is the initiation of a professional discourse of this innovative concept and to disseminate it, but also to broaden this innovative approach and transfer it into good practice.We expect two high quality intellectual outputs: A MOOC for trainers and teachers and a poetry-pedagogical concept to be published in e-book for adult basic education practice, policy and research and interested professional audience. These two products will be developed in a participatory process by all partners. They contribute their existing expertise with regard to specific target groups or approaches in terms of content or creativity, but also jointly develop new expertise and competences. The project process will be designed in such a way that these multicultural, multinational, but also multidisciplinary competences will result in a participatory process that values diversity and leads to a new holistic, transcultural understanding and concept in andragogy. The e-book will be made available free of charge to all interested parties beyond the project period and contribute to the establishment of resource-oriented approaches in basic education for adults.Another decisive factor is the intention to have the English e-book / concept translated into the three native languages of the participating organisations – German, Spanish and Greek. The ambiguity of meanings, from which poetry lives like no other literary genre, can be resolved differently in the respective mother tongues.The partner consortium consists of five European organisations, whose cultural and professional diversity, specific fields of experience and methodologies open up a multi-perspectival space in which creative approaches in basic education can be introduced and jointly developed:•Katholische Erwachsenenbildung Rheinland-Pfalz, Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft e.V. (Germany, project coordinator)•das kollektiv, kritische bildungs-, beratungs- und kulturarbeit von und für migrant*innen (Austria)•European Learning Centre (Spain)•SYNTHESIS Center for Research and Education (Cyprus)•Kalamata Second Chance School (Greece)"

"<< Background >>Due to the lifelong learning requirements of modern life, working parents are often asked to return to education and training. However, returning to the classroom often clashes with their family obligations, leading the learners to minimal participation or even dropping out. Researching the problem on the OECD statistics platform, it is clear that in mediterranean countries ""Childcare and family responsibilities"" is by far the most significant barrier to adult education and learning participation (https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=79325), something that also seems aligned to perceived cultural attitudes towards children upbringing and family upkeeping in these areas (e.g. a reluctancy to leave children with a ""stranger"" and a strong preference towards activating the grandparents or having a parent, usually the mother, stay home). Hence, the questions is: How can we help our learners who work and are also parents participate more in adult education? And how can we do it without asking them to leave their families for even more training / coaching, etc?<< Objectives >>At the end of this project we would like our adult learning schools to be able to attract more learners who are parents, manage to keep them in our schools, and have them participate more actively.<< Implementation >>We are going to work together to create three Intellectual Outputs whose creation processes, outputs per se, and field testing will be closely monitored and controlled for quality by relevant, built in the workplan activities; we will meet in person three times, once at the beginning and once before each report to the National Agency, but we will communicate continuously; we will organise 5 national multiplier conferences and we will try to reach at least 300 adult learning organisations; we will train at least 300 adult learners-parents, certify at least 60 Family Learning Mediators and 60 Community Outreach specialists,<< Results >>We are going to create: a) a multilingual online platform that at least 300 adult students will be able to use before and during their studies to guide them how to use their studies as an opportunity to engage and spend more quality time with their families (IO.1 • Family Learning Platform ), b) an e-learning course accredited by Areadne Lifelong Learning Centre for at least 60 adult trainers who would like to learn how to support learners from diverse backgrounds use family learning in adult learning contexts (IO.2 • Family Learning Mediator e-course ), and c) a Community Outreach Capacity Building e-course accredited by Areadne Lifelong Learning Centre training at least 60 adult education staff and/or teacing members on how create and run a community outreach plan to attract more learners (IO.3 • Community Outreach e-course). These results, in combination with the five multiplier events and overall dissemination will reach at least 300 adult learning organisations and will help them offer better quality services to people who believe that family obligations are an important barrier to joining an adult education course."