Into the PROtect(Promote traditions through handmade crafts)project are involved 6 organizations from 4 different countries:Romania, Belgium, Poland and Bulgaria. It occured as a necesity to continue the existent partnership beween Romania-Belgium, Belgium-Poland through the model of mutual activities. It includes also Bulgaria, as an important pole for preserving the cultural traditions and handmade crafts and also as a possibility to extent the mutual model in another country . The objectives, activities, instruments and results exists and provide a common way of work for all the involved partners in accordance with their mission and vision . The objectives consist in establishing an European transnational dialog between women organizations through monthly practical workshops, the 3 transnational meetings and the 2 transnational learning activities in the first 20 months of the project, practicing handmade crafts into organized workshops in each partener's organization from the second till the 23th month of the project, enabling the 6 organizations to develop activities of social inclusion and growing self-esteem for 90 women during the 24 months of the project.The project adresses to 90 women that are part of women movement or wish to be part, from rural areas or small communities. Each organization will manage a target group that consist in 15 people for which they will organize activities to protect and promote local traditions and handmade crafts, protect the environment by using recycled materials or natural materials and promoting outside activities. Another goal is to protect the self-esteem of women, mainly from rural areas where they hardly find a job, try to give alternatives to people from poor regions to earn their living in their own communities instead of migration.The project will promote the social inclusion , lifelong learning principles and volunteering by offering an alternative through entrepreneurial activities. The activities assumed through the project concern the management, dissemination and concrete activities with the target group. Though will take place 3 transnational meetings in order to establish the prochedures, methologies and assure a good management for the activities. For disemination , each organization will organize divers events: trainings, round tables, conference and practical workshops. Each event will promote the informative materials achieved through the project. They consist in a guide with exemples of good practices, tutorials regarding handmade crafts, brochure regarding similarities and differences in the 4 cultures involved into the project. The methods used into the project will promote interactive involvement, creativity. They will consist in movies presentations; group discussions; divers presentations made by trainers; visits for documentation; sketches, photos, modelling, role play ;open exhibition, Power Point presentation about the workshops, season wheel as a method to provide the most of activites with the target group. The season wheel will also be the logo for the activities and the obtained results. Participants shall be stimulated to communicate and to be actively engaged into activities. They will also have the chanses to practice communication in English through the online networks and direct meetings. The project will not only present handmade crafts but will offer the space for practice them and give the opportunty for each involved women to share the experience, to develop new skills to enlarge the creativity. Also it will offer models and technical suport for developing entrepreneurial abilities and turn the learned crafts into a source of living. This can be the benefit of the project on long term and if the women from rural areas will choose to work as social entrepreneurial entreprizes each organization will develop support activities.
Into the PROtect(Promote traditions through handmade crafts)project were involved 6 organizations from 4 different countries:Romania, Belgium, Poland and Bulgaria. It occured as a necesity to continue the existent partnership beween Romania-Belgium, Belgium-Poland through the model of mutual activities. It included also Bulgaria, as an important pole for preserving the cultural traditions and handmade crafts and also as a possibility to extent the mutual model in another country . The objectives, activities, instruments and results provided a common way of work for all the involved partners in accordance with their mission and vision . The objectives consisted in establishing an European transnational dialog between women organizations through monthly practical workshops, 4 transnational meetings and 2 transnational learning activities in the first 20 months of the project, practicing handmade crafts into organized workshops in each partener's organization from the second till the 23th month of the project, enabling the 6 organizations to develop activities of social inclusion and growing self-esteem for minimum 90 women during the 24 months of the project.The project adressed to 90 women from rural areas or small communities. Each organization managed a target group that consist in minimum 15 people for which they organized activities to protect and promote local traditions and handmade crafts, protect the environment by using recycled materials or natural materials and promoting outside activities. Another goal was to protect the self-esteem of women and were organized social inclusion activities , and entrepreneurial activities. For the management were organized 3 transnational meetings in order to establish the prochedures, methologies and assure a good management for the activities. For disemination , each organization organized several events. Some materials were done during the project: a guide with exemples of good practices, tutorials regarding handmade crafts, brochure regarding similarities and differences in the 4 cultures involved into the project, a logo. The methods used into the project promoted interactive involvement and creativity. Participants were stimulated to communicate and to be actively engaged into activities. They also had the chanses to practice communication in English through the online networks and direct meetings. The project offered the space to practicehandmade crafts and give the opportunty for each involved women to share the experience, to develop new skills to enlarge the creativity. Also it offered technical suport for developing entrepreneurial abilities and turn the learned crafts into a source of living. This can be the benefit of the project on long term.