OTHER RELATED PROJECTS

Acquiring Key Competences through Heritage Education

Aqueduct is a Comenius Multilateral project aiming to improve the acquisition of key competences through heritage education and to build teacher capacity for competence oriented education in a heritage context. The project targets teacher trainers, initial teacher training students, teachers in schools reaching 6 – 14 age groups and educational programmers in heritage sites.

age-culture.net

The age-culture.net European Network aims to recognise, support and enrich the cultural lives and learning of older people in Europe through advocacy, information, education, training and strategic partnership. Demographic shift concerns all Europe. The Europeans are getting older, fewer and more diverse. Age and culture is a transversal issue of special European relevance.

ASLECT

Active Seniors Learn, Educate, Communicate and Transmit is a project approaching the presence of senior people within cultural organizations from a double perspective: as users/beneficiaries of educational and cultural programmes, and, equally, as learning resources for developing new programmes addressing the community.

Cultural elderly volunteers for showing the Spanish museums to children, teenagers and retired

This programme is an initiative of the “Confederación Española de Aulas de la Tercera Edad” (CEATE), a national non-profit institution, which works with and for elderly people in cultural issues.

Curious learning programme

Cultural Awareness and strategies for intercultural dialogue. Curious is an innovative project that will support and celebrate the 2012 Olympic Games, and prepare for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The project includes an exhibition, adult learning programme, schools programme and conference.

DEVOTED: DEVelopment Of Trainers in EDucation

The DEVOTED project, funded by the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme, seeks to identify, make visible and widely disseminate examples of good practice in the field of formal and nonformal education for disadvantaged young people.

Echoe

Education for Heritage, Outdoor Education

ECHOE-Education for Heritage, Outdoor Education

The ECHOE project explores methods to combine education for and about heritage with outdoor education, in order to provide organizations with support in the realization of educational programs adjusted to adults’ needs. The experts involved in this project are currently working for the development of a series of documents providing methodological guidelines to trainers and organizations from the educational and cultural fields.

European Network for Intergenerational Learning

The main aim of the European Network in Intergenerational Learning is to promote IntergenerationalLearning (IGL) by bringing together and supporting sustainable, effective practice in the field and by facilitating the exchange of ideas and expertise beyond individual projects, and by creating a mechanism for practitioners to influence policy and practice.

EXACT4EU: Excellence academy for trainers

We can often find a gap between the large number of potentially useful but often semi-finished educational tools and approaches, which have been developed in EU-projects in education and training. There is a need to test these tools in different environments, adapt and further develop them so that they can be made widely available to education professionals who work with difficult lifelong learning target groups.

Exploring European History & Heritage

The ambitious goal of the Exploring European History and Heritage is to build an educational online tool on history and heritage from a European perspective. A European perspective on history and heritage help us to look at our own past through the eyes of the “other” and to understand differences in order to overcome divisions. The thematic approach makes it possible to trace back long term developments, see and analyze turning points in history and see similarities and difference between events and locations. Multiple perspectives on the past and inter- and intra state comparison help, with respect for diversity, to show what people share.

FARO - Flemish interface centre for cultural heritage

One corridor, many doors: the field of cultural heritage in Flanders has never been so diverse. From the collections preserved in museums, archives, heritage libraries and documentation centres to the many forms of intangible heritage that have been handed on from generation to generation. Cultural heritage belongs to everyone, can be found everywhere and is a source of inspiration and reflection for the present and future, a celebration of cultural diversity and a challenge for memory, preservation and development.

Gardners Ark project: Open Museum

In mid 2008, The Open Museum initiated a challenging project called the Gardener’s Ark. The participants were long term residents at Leverndale and Dykebar Hospitals who have mental health issues and a wide range of learning difficulties. The majority of residents have spent their lives in care from an early age, and have limited life experience outside the familiarity of the hospital.

GINCO - Grundtvig International Network of Course Organisers

GINCO is a Grundtvig network run by an international consortium of 21 partners. GINCO aims to create a European wide network of adult education organisations actually running Grundtvig courses or willing to do so in the future. The aim of the network is to share expertise, to create and share useful material and to enhance communication and cooperation in order to improve the quality of Grundtvig courses, to enlarge the scope of provision and to improve the visibility and success of the action and the courses.

Glasgow’s Red Road Cultural and Legacy project

The famous Red Road Flats were built in the 1960s and were intended to be a fast and cost effective solution to overcrowding in Glasgow's slums. However, with the regeneration of the area now underway, the area's six tower blocks and two 'slab' blocks will be demolished between 2011 and 2015. Thousands of residents are being re-housed, some locally, others to more distant parts of the city.

INMEDIATS project

The INMEDIATS project: an opportunity to develop scientific culture on French territories. The INMEDIATS project has been selected for a grant from the ‘Investments of the future’ programme within the scientific culture and equal opportunity category, put in place by the French government.

KiiCS - Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science

A 3-year European Commission-funded project (2012-2014). Led by ECSITE, the European network of science centres and museums, the project aims to build bridges between arts, science and technology by giving evidence of the positive impacts of their interaction for creativity as well as for triggering interest in science. The project will stimulate cocreation processes involving creators and scientists, and nurture youth interest in science in a creative way.

Leonardo ITEMS - Innovative Teaching for European Museum Strategies

ITEMS is a Leonardo da Vinci Program multilateral partnership. It is meant to spread knowledge and expertise in the field of art education especially with regards to the cooperation between secondary schools and museum institutions. A special attention is given to the potential of new technologies in school and museum education.

MeLa - European Museums and Libraries in/of the Age of Migrations

The project is funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme, which aims to delineate new approaches for museums and libraries in a context characterized by the continuous migration of people and ideas. Its main objectives are to advance knowledge in the field and to support museum and library communities, practitioners, experts and policymakers in developing new missions and forms of museums and libraries “in the age of migration”. The project website is www.mela-project.eu

Museums, Accessibility & ICT for deaf people: Favoring best practice in Europe

The project aims at improving non-formal learning in museums for people with special needs, the Deaf. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to improve learning for professionals in museums so that they could implement relevant activities.