Grundtvig - Cmepius

Workshop Reference number: 2012-1-AT1-GRU13-07574
Venue: Vienna Date of the Workshop: 24/03/2013 - 30/03/2013
Pimp My Europe. Ideas for Refreshing Europe
Subject area: Basic skills for adult learners
European citizenship and European dimension
Intercultural education
Working language(s): EN
Target Group + Translation:
Adults interested in sharing and promoting creative ideas and common values, – specially persons
with a migration background (external or inner European) and/or persons interested in migration
and social issues in its widest sense including language, – people motivated by a creative
intercultural exchange, who whish to strengthen their communication skills in the European
context.
Main activities Programme + Programme translation:
„Pimp My Europe. Ideas for Refreshing Europe“ will be a methodical and informal handling,
assessing and enhancing of ideas proposed by each of the participants in a short and succinct
presentation during the workshop. In a further step those ideas will be re-worked in the group in
order to empower and encourage the participants to present them on video and to promote them
through social media. The core ideas that are going to be presented should be of personal concern
and social relevance, in the scope of our daily experience, simple and refreshing. With regard to the
topics of personal concern a number of thematic fields are going to be suggested in the form of
mind maps and questions. (These topics will be published on a website to be accessed upon
registration for the workshop.) It will be the task of the participant to identify aspects of this
personal concern in his daily experience. By recognising the core element of his daily experience he
will be able to simplify and articulate original ideas in a new form. These ideas are the material for
a short presentation aiming to illustrate the concern of the person and creating awareness about it. If
these ideas require further actions they should be self sustained and have a minimum dependency
on state or other official institutions. (On our homepage we will provide a fair amount of examples.)
Key tags for the presented ideas are: self dynamics, refreshing, coherence, potential to grow,
rhyzomatic, group process, living in Europe, Europe as a shared space, relevance to every
European, getting away from cultural (national) stereotypes, from meta-ideas and solutions of
global dimensions, from imposing (as opposed to suggesting and motivating) ideas on other people.
Central to this workshop is the discussion in the group. The presenter then has the possibility to fine
tune his argument that will lead to the final presentation where he can launch his “proto”-idea
through video and/or social media. These videos can include appeals for action and – by mutual
consent – can be published on video channels like You Tube, Vimeo, etc. There will training
sessions for voice development and body expression to help and coach the participants with their
presentation skills. Visits to institutions, places and cultural events will be synchronous with the
aims of the workshop, i.e. public presentations and informal media. The work in the group will be
moderated on the basis of mutual respect, help, creativity and empathy.
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