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The artist within – Applied eMOTION Dance and art expression in formal and non-formal education for developing entrepreneur skills – best practice sharing between sectors and methods
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Recently, we find more and more educational, and training activities using different ways of artistic expression (dance/movement, drawing, theatre, cartoons) to enable learning in an innovative and creative way. Our project aims at the development and integration of the different art modalities into the formal and non-formal educational activities. We intend to further support institutions to empower their colleagues and target groups to develop their entrepreneurship and related skills by using different artistic tools in individual and group work. The project is a based on the intersectorial consortium of 6 institutions from 5 countries (HU, GE, IT, PL, BG). The work of the partnership is colourful, as the partners are working in higher education of helping professionals, civil organisation working with immigrants, youth network working in a disadvantaged geographical region, art therapy educational centre and intercultural research centre. During the 24-month-long project along with sharing best practices there will be 4 intensive, focused trainings, hosting the colleagues of the participating institutions: 1st training: Movement and expression therapy related tools in the helping professions, HU - General overview and experience in the fields of art and self-expression modalities - Helping professions and their relationship with the arts - Group experiences with disadvantaged participants - The impact of art on the individuals: therapy, self-awareness, stress reduction, recreation, and creativity. 2nd Training: The potential in storytelling and cartoons related to helping professions, IT - Basic visual rules from the artistic point of view - Storytelling and personal experiences, inclusion of traumatic experiences and personal questions - Audio-visual storytelling - Ways of presenting final films, the role of ’show’ (especially with disadvantaged groups) 3rd training: The role of humour and performing arts in the helping professions, GE - Improvisation in performing arts - Theatrical techniques, movement and speech - The potential and the specialties of a clown figure in helping professions 4th Training: Strengthening entrepreneurship through different arts – methodological integration, PL - This is a special training module, as the aim of it is to integrate the previously experienced and studied elements into a new, joint educational module. This will be tested as a pilot activity with the participation of students studying to become helping professionals at the university. After the training activities each partner institution runs pilot workshops to try and apply the acquired new art forms, and ways. The experiences will be summarized at the local level and shared both with all members of the consortium and with the wider professional audience. During the 2 years there will be 4 international management meetings to support the flow of the project, planning, evaluating and adjusting steps, run dissemination activities and overview financials and administrative matters on a regular basis. At the end of the project we gather, summarise all the experiences, knowledge, professionals’ statements, and methodological suggestions gained during the whole project. Based on those we give recommendations and ideas on how to use artistic tools for working with groups in various situations. The outcomes will be published online and translated into several European languages, plus further spread during conferences. We foresee to reach 96 participants directly and indirectly even 5000 people through the workshops of the participant helping professionals, publications and conferences. As the result of our project the participating institutions will gain new knowledge, approaches, good practices, they develop their international connections and build new professional working relations. The colleagues and members of them gain inspiration; deepen their self-knowledge, while learning practices that can be immediately applied. Through this, the risk of burnout decreases. We believe that out project contributes to the new, innovative approaches of education on the European level, altering the curriculum and offering creative, experience based education that is highly suitable and effective with disadvantaged groups.
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