csiadm July 25, 2022
Art & Culture can transform people’s lives, they offer opportunities in building stronger ties between groups and individuals. Use of cultural and artistic creative processes as a tool for social and labour inclusion is more than relevant specially in those days marked by COVID-19 and its consequences on health, social and economic life.
Thus, CULTUR’ACT project aims to empower vulnerable adults and youngsters (trainees in formal, informal & non formal settings including women and migrants) using Art & Culture activities/processes.
CULTUR’ACT project is shaped with the goal to foster global competence for advancing social inclusion and career path of vulnerable people using Art & Culture. Through a bespoke coaching and training programme, CULTUR’ACT will also equip the professionals (Trainers & Facilitators) with a toolkit so they can better support these target groups to use global competence to cope with challenges they face every day.
CULTUR’ACT will adopt a bottom-up approach and will involve both target groups (i.e. users and final beneficiaries) in all key phases of the project, including development, design, testing, validation, mainstream and dissemination.
IO1: CULTUR’ACT Methodology Handbook (led by UC): A pedagogical resources framework about “training and inclusion through art & culture processes” addressed to trainers and educators. It will be a step-by-step handbook guide to promote inclusion, using Art & Culture, and to improve awareness about their usefulness. The main objective is to provide practical tools to design and implement efficient training sessions.
IO2: CULTUR’ACT Training Kit (co-led by CSC & CIEP): Composed by a learning outcomes matrix, a set of practical activities based on the common training methods with innovative practical tools to support learners in their artistic & cultural activities (video, photography, theatre, broadcasting, parlour games, etc.).
IO3: CULTUR’ACT Shows (led by PHP): a set of “shows/spectacles” created at national and/or European level by the participants on different supports (video, soundtrack, radio podcast, exhibition, theatre show, etc.) (1 per country) as a means to allow them to investigate the world and express their perspectives in order to improve their social inclusion.
IO4: CULTUR’ACT Educational Digital Hub (led by CSI): The platform will help to accomplish the project following main objectives:
-Open Education Resources repository, offering an online space to launch the OER outputs developed within the project, in an easily and free-access way;
-Promotional media, to disseminate the project, its activities and outputs, in order to ensure maximum outreach, longer impact and sustainability;
-Networking tool, shared by participants, stakeholders and other relevant and/or interested organizations, aimed at multiplying the effect of dissemination and exploitation;
-Dissemination hub notably source of relevant information, contents, resources, methodologies, etc.
The project includes 7 partners:
1)CIEP – Belgium
2)Association de Gestion des Fonds Européens (AGFE) – France
3)Associazione People Help the People – Italy
4)Center for Social Innovation (CSI) – Cyprus
5)IASIS NGO – Greece
6)Kolegji Universum O.P – Kosovo
7)CSC-diversité – Belgium
The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Project number: 2020-1-BE01-KA227-ADU-082708
