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PORTUGAL
Project Reference: 06-PRT01-S2G01-00013-1
PORTUGAL
Roots and Wings
The project “Roots and Wings” focuses on using the experiences and roots of senior citizens as a positive and valuable
contribution to local and European communities. It will work on a local, national and international basis and encourage the
promotion of lifelong learning through local projects and exchanges. The project will rely on the experiences of nine
different institutions from six countries. It will use adult learning approaches to build individual and community confidence
and promote greater understanding of different cultures and histories. The project assumes that work with memories and
abilities, to reflect one’s own life and to discuss experiences within a group, plays an important role for the individual and
the group.
Through this experience participants will recognise the similarities and differences in past present lives across European
countries. This also has benefits within a European framework, where people compare their personal experiences with
official history recordings. From this work in understanding their roots it is anticipated that senior participants will look
outward with confidence in their own abilities and so to appreciate other European lives and cultures.
The project also aims at helping participants to look at their own past from a fresh angle, coming to terms with it and
thereby gaining strength to lead a good and satisfying life. The long term objective is an internalised mental model to be
used as a tool in everyday life.
Duration: 2 years Funding year: 1st
Area(s) covered
Project Objectives
Target Group(s)
Active citizenship
Intercultural Issues
Arts, music, culture
Information technology
European countries
Languages: English
Strategy for stimulating/promoting adult learners’ demand for learning
Experimentation with new pedagogical approach(es)
Methods for providing credit for knowledge or competence acquired
outside formal education
Senior citizens
Women
Other: Adults
COMPOSITION OF THE PARTNERSHIP
Coordinating organisation
Arte-Via – Cooperativa Artística e Editorial (PT)
Contact person – Ana Filomena Amaral
Meiral – Casa Amarela, 3200-095 Lousã
Tel: 00351 239994872
Fax: 00351
E-mail: anafamaral@iol.pt
Website:
Partners
Ahjolan Kansalaisopisto (FI)
CEPA Pozuelo de ALARCÓN (ES)
Falkirk Council (UK)
Förderverein Akademie 2. Lebenshalfte im Land Branderburg e V. (DE)
Stadtarchiv Dornbirn (AT)
Stadtbücherei Dornbirn (AT)
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