The Project Art@Heart - Social Handcraft Experience is a strategic partnership to support the innovation of the adult Education branch, created and projected to answer at the extraordinary call “Strategic partnerships created to answer at the health emergency COVID-19” .The partnership is made up of Associazione Atelier degli Artigianelli (italia) as project leader, LAO Le Arti Orafe (Italia), Fondazione Spazio Reale (Italia), Escuela de Arte 3 (Spagna) and PIKC Liepajas Muzikas, makslas un dizaina vidusskola (Lettonia).The health emergency due to the pandemic of COVID-19 has harshly damaged the cultural and creative sectors and has restricted the way the people relate to each other.This project wants to improve the growth of skills and expertise that strengthen the creativity, promote the quality and innovation and support the adult’s creative potential, contributing to the resilience of the cultural and creative sectors. The project will reinforce the social inclusion through the arts, promoting innovative approach based on the intercultural and participative dialogue that relate education, training and the organization of cultural and creative sectors.The project has the aim to develop innovative results and promote the spread of the good practice to realize non formal training laboratories of artistic crafts, testing new distances manners (MOOC) on a subject, the artisan one, mark out instead of the modality purely in presence.The project also seeks to support the development of key skills and the knowledge of self-entrepreneurship.The project is intended to 10 adults for each organized laboratory by partners. If the participants were different from each other, we could consider that the total number of beneficiaries could reach 120, since the project involves the realization of 4 workshops organized by the lead partner, 4 by LAO, 2 by the Spanish partner and 2 by the Latvian partner. However, this is not to be considered a certain fact as some participants may decide to attend several different workshops.The specific targets that the project wants to reach are: the exchange of the good practices between the project partners regarding the ways of remote transmission of knowledge and skills; fulfillment of the guide lines for the planning of the practical learning opportunity in presence, or at distance, regarding the artistic craft topic; creation of practical training laboratories of artistic craft (blended way) in Italy, Spain and Latvia; invention of a MOOC form dedicated to self-entrepreneurship (multilingual, available to all the participants – with an open source issue available to a wide public); research and development of key competences, such as linguistics and digitals for adults, through webinars; promotion and organization of the artistic and cultural activities.This project wants to offer to the attendees the possibility to develop their own skills, increase the knowledge and develop the use of the TIC, encourage the learning of knowledge and the expertise for the personal progression in order to have a greater social inclusion, by a series of artistic laboratories in presence or at a distance. All these activities will have the purpose to enhance the participants’ curricula useful in the job market.The project also plans to raise the following impressions on the indirect recipient and on the communities:•Promote and encourage the creativity.•Offer social inclusion paths through the artistic expression.•Promote the continuous learning for adults while promoting the access to improvement skills paths.•Enhance the growth of ability and competence.•Support the use of digital devises, especially for adults (non digital native) •Raise the talent and promote the culture of the self-entrepreneurship.•Promote and examine in depth applied methodologies and techniques of non formal training, in presence and at a distance, in the artistic craft sphere.•Support transnational partnership.•Promote models and instruments to impart knowledges in remote modality.•Promote and organize artistic and cultural activities.•Support the progression of cultural and creative sectors.

"The project ""THE FUTURE IS OUR JEWEL"" brought together 6 associated professional schools around jewelery training, but whose cultural, heritage and professional histories are diverse. This is why one of the needs was to highlight the diversity in the world of jewelry, so that these diversities become resources of common wealth, learning spaces and opportunities, with the result of obtaining good personal and professional projects from our respective jewelry students, target group of the project.The life of the project was affected by the Covid 19 Pandemic and the resilience of the participants, students and teachers came though.A fundamental pillar was promoting Sustainable Jewelry and solutions for the implementation of new sustainable work models that offer an ethical and fair jewellery prepared for the future and the demand more awareness in the sector related to the ecological trend. The project lasted 40 months. Its objectives and the applied didactics, made it possible to teach essential knowledge and techniques for the consolidation of student learning, their personal development and their future work.More than 500 students were involved. Taking into account the European identity and territory of today, we consider that it is impossible not to accept diversity in the teaching of the same profession. That is why another fundamental point will be the ethical values such as equality, tolerance and union.From the alchemy of these four pillars, equality, sustainability, union and tolerance, we combine the 4 natural elements (Water, Air, Fire and Earth) where the essential natural materials for the jewelry practice are obtained, within these 4 pillars artethe past, present ant future which represent the three phases of the Project. We link them to our 4 pillars, IGUALDA(gua)D / SOST(ierra)ENIBILIDAD / UNI(fueg)ON / TOLERA(ire)NCIA where the raw material and the idea of the project, to make us especially aware of the concepts of union and sustainability, under the protection of jewelry.The work program was related to the 4 types of activities that correspond to the 4 multidisciplinary phases and methodology for the implementation and management of our strategic association:1) RESEARCH and in-depth study of materials and concepts related to the themes of each year, the jewel of the past, present and future, always following the Sustainable Jewelery approach. 2) CREATION OF JEWELRY taking into account the contribution of the diversities and particularities of each country through an active and open methodology, from the idea to the production, guided by the teachers, as a personal development of the personality of each student. 3) CREATION OF CATALOGS of selected pieces (252) with the aim of informing, disseminating the creations made, emphasizing the European dimension of the project and the importance of the contributions of each partner. 4) EXHIBITIONS and collective presentation of selected pieces. Every year a large traveling exhibition was held on a monthly basis in the other parnership schools, exhibited in different exhibition spaces.The project included training mobilities for students whose added value was related to the resources provided by each partner and the creation of an environment in which it was possible to exchange, share, debate, develop good and new practices, more techniques in carrying out sustainable jewelry.The results were divided into concrete and intangible in the teaching staff, the students and the schools and that lead to an internationalization of the centers. The impact has been observed first in the participants who obtain new skills and can compete in the labor market as future professionals, in schools giving greater visibility, new relationships with centers and companies in the sector, institutional recognition of the work carried out and training of quality related to a new European identity and at a European level thanks to the extensive international networks of the partners. The coordinating Escuela de Arte 3, has been awarded the 2021 National Craft Award to a Public Entity, for its work for years in favor of the transmission of knowledge, concepts and values in favor of teaching excellence in the field of Artistic Crafts.In addition, to ensure that it can produce benefits and be used in the long term, even in the countries not directly involved and also after its completion, the website and all the results will remain operational after the closure of the project, allowing through the links all stakeholders and partners can to communicate, share ideas, propose improvements, update innovative methods and why not, create relationships for other projects."

“A travelling jewel” is a project gathering five partner schools. These six schools are from five European States and share a common vocational training linked to jewellery techniques and the art of jewellery design. Their goal is to involve as many students as possible in a project pedagogically relevant. Considering today’s European identity and territory, we consider it impossible not to embrace the diversity of techniques and ways in learning the same profession. Our travelling jewel can be seen as a ring, but it is foremost a symbolical circular object expressing the union and solidarity of an alliance. the educational policy in our institutions becomes richer from this alliance through our differences and togetherness thanks to the numerous pedagogical tools and innovations that we create.“A travelling jewel” conveys our will of going on a pedagogical journey together through time and space. Over the course of the three years of our partnership, we thus suggested to orientate the project first on the past, then on the present and finally on the future :a) During the first year, each country focus on its territory and discover and analyse its own heritage, be it natural, industrial, mineral, cultural or artistic. We want to respect traditional and empirical techniques that founded the craft as well as integrate our cultural heritage. Sharing them with our partners was our way to sensitize them to our way of doing things and of thinking.b) During the second year, the project was integrated into the present time and focus on raising our political, cultural, social and ecological awareness. We did this by discovering and using materials and techniques seen and experienced when meeting the other culture in another country thanks to the project mobility between schools.c) The third year develop the project into the jewel of future time. During that last year, the focus was on the desire of innovation and exchange between schools around common values such as commitment and european citizenship.The pluridisciplinarity and transversality is obvious throughout each year : 1) First, the students did research on their own heritage and then discover their partners’ heritage.2) Secondly, they were creating jewels by using what they learnt both from their own cultural heritage or by what they discovered from their partners.3) Thirdly, Students wrote and distributed their experience in the school newspaper, on the web, on social networks, ...4) And finally, the pinnacle of our partnership was a yearly travelling exhibition presenting the “travelling jewels” created by students from the five schools.The project “a travelling jewel” is meant to trigger new ways of learning for all the teams involved in the partnership, it also disseminated the result in a relevant way via the exhibited and published products. Most importantly, it opened and sensitized the pedagogical horizons of our schools towards the most fragile students, those who are most susceptible to drop out or vulnerable when it comes to occupational integration.