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Project reference: 06 – LVA01 – S2G01 - 00027-3
LATVIJA
Arts & Crafts across Europe
The project will promote the preservation and awareness of European cultures and traditions. Working with visual arts and
crafts, teachers and learners will work together across the Learning Partnership to share teaching methods and crafts skills, and
ensure the preservation of these skills.
The Project will produce a multi-cultural visual archive & glossary of crafts techniques used by each partner organisation. In
the 3 rd year, the Project will pilot the archive ad glossary with groups of younger learners, so that these skills are not lost, also
promoting greater inter-generational communication and understanding. During the course of the project, each partner
organisation will host an exhibition and workshop to which all partners will be invited to contribute, sharing their teaching
methods and skills at first hand.
The Project will promote a boarder awareness of other European cultures and tradition, and an opportunity to learn and share
trans-European experience at first hand for groups of older people who may have faced significant social and economic
barriers to continuing education. By working primarily through a visual medium, the Project will minimise the difficulties
arising from the lack of a common language, recognising that the majority of participant have faced significant socioeconomic
barriers to the acquisition of foreign language skills. The Project will enhance the confidence and self-esteem of
teachers and learners by recognising the importance of their skills, & providing opportunities for these skills to be shared
across a number of countries and cultures.
Duration: 3 years Funding year: 3 rd
Area(s) covered
Project Objectives
Target Group(s)
COMPOSITION OF THE PARTNERSHIP
Coordinating institution
Name of the organisation: Biedriba Manai mazpilsēai Aknīstei
Name of the contact person: Skaidrīte Medvecka
Address: Skolas iela 16°, Aknīste, Jēkabpils rajons, LV-5208, Latvija
E-mail: Sk_medvecka@inbox.lv
Tel: + 371 5236604
Fax: + 371 5237750
Website:
Partners
Age Concern Calderdale, UK
Universite Popolare Contemporanea La Grazie, IT
Ballybeen Womans Centre, UK
Perhonjokilaakso Open College, FI
Active citizenship
Arts, music, culture
Learning about European countries/the European Union
Intercultural issues
Strategy for stimulating/promoting adult learners’ demand for learning
Experimentation with new pedagogical approach (es)
Economically or socially disadvantaged group, unemployed, prisoners .
Senior citizens
People interested in preserving crafts and heritage
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