Context and background: Technical Progress leads to the extinction of workmanship and mechanical skills. Because of the digitalization of our everyday life there is a growing desire for haptic work (e.g. “Burgenländischer Blaudruck” – a regional printing technique.) to compensate for too much brainwork. Old crafts and trades are becoming extinct but progress must not be denied – past and future must be combined. The project should primarily be supported to … … enable intercultural exchange of specific regional crafts and present it to an international public (manufacture and presentation of products among the project partners). … motivate young people to acquire new skills and to learn to think and act in an entrepreneurial way – cultural heritage as impulse for future employment. … combine old crafts and trades, entrepreneurship and digitalization and to create new possibilities for innovative mercantilism. Our motivation for this project is to secure a European surplus on a personal, intercultural and entrepreneurial level. Targets, results and benefits: Aim of the project is to motivate students to deal with old and fading manual skills, to acquire their techniques and subsequently develop innovative new products and market them in an entrepreneurial sense. The result should be a transfer of knowledge that secures the conservation of the cultural heritage “altes Handwerk” and delivers practical results in the form of newly thought manual products. The long-term benefit will be corporate learning and the mediation of entrepreneurial spirit as well as the inclusion of people with special needs in economic life. Due to the fact that the students of the Greek partner school and some of the Portuguese school are people with special needs (Asperger syndrome, ADHD, Down syndrome, learning disorders etc.) inclusion will be a major challenge in our project which has to be considered at all levels (organizational, with regard to contents, methodical, etc.). The development of the skills of single students shall be supported; self-designed and handmade products will help to foster confidence in their own creative abilities. The benefit will lie in the development of basic skills and key competences of the single student. Intercultural exchange results in a row of specific products of certain regions. The long-term benefit focusses on the European idea, especially on the social and pedagogic values of the regional cultural heritage. Experience shows that old crafts and trades are mainly performed by people with traditional attitudes and of higher age. The project aims to connect this generation with young people and their experiences. This confrontation on manual, sociocultural and diverse-age level results in mutual learning. Transfer of knowledge will be a central outcome of the project. The benefit will be an intercultural and generation crossing education as well as life-long learning. Sustainable learning through discrete organizing and independent acting is one of the major aims and will improve the quality of training institutions by using alternative methods of teaching (hands-on mentality), which can also be seen as a benefit. In the course of our project entrepreneurship focusses on the acquisition of cultural, social, manual and entrepreneurial competences. In addition to the previously mentioned results the process of learning (the “Entrepreneurial Journey”) will be documented by each project team with a short film, the products will be presented on a trade market (2.0) accompanied by a summary product catalogue which will be published both in print and digital form. In this way social and educational benefits will come to the fore. The project is divided into the following activities: C 1. Kick off, research, selection of project partners C 2. Creation, design and prototype of a new product C 3. Preparation of production and marketing of the manufactured products C 4. Implementation of marketing materials C 5. Market – concluding project presentation in form of a touring exhibition The methodology used in the realization of the project will be based on “do-it-yourself” and “hands-on” to allow the involvement of practical and creative activities of the students at the best. Participating schools: Agrupamento de Escolas da Maia (Portugal), Enieo Eidiko Epaggelmatiko Gymnasio - Lykeio Katerinis (Greece), Colegiul National Samuel von Brukenthal (Rumania), Grobinas gimnazija (Latvia), HBLA Oberwart (Austria) These are higher schools providing general education and higher vocational schools.
Context and background: Technological progress is leading to the extinction of craft knowledge and skills. Due to the digitalization of everyday life, the longing for haptic activities is growing, as a balance to head-heavy work. Old crafts are dying out, yet progress should not be negated, but rather the past and the future should be linked. The European Union promoted by the financing of the project ... the regionally specific handicraft with intercultural in exchange. Presentations and products were created with the project partners. ... that young people were encouraged to learn new skills and to think and act entrepreneurially - cultural heritage as a job-engine. ... that old crafts, entrepreneurship, digitalization and inclusion were intertwined and thus new opportunities for innovative entrepreneurship were created. Our motivation was to bring about a European added value on a personal, intercultural and entrepreneurial level. Goals, results and benefits: The aim of the project was to enable students to explore and acquire old and dying craft skills, and as a result to develop innovative and products and to exploit them in the spirit of entrepreneurship. The result was a transfer of knowledge that ensured the preservation of the cultural heritage of "old crafts" and delivered concrete results in the form of newly interpreted craft products. The longer-term benefits were entrepreneurial learning and teaching, as well as the inclusion of persons with special needs in economic life. Due to the fact that the students of the Greek school and parts of the students of the Portuguese school were persons with special needs (Asperger's syndrome, ADHD, Down syndrome, learning difficulties, etc.), inclusion was a central challenge of our project, which was taken into account in the implementation at all levels (organizational, content, methodology, etc.). The further development of individual students' skills was to be supported; concrete self-designed and handcrafted products increased self-confidence in their own creative abilities. The benefits lay in the development of basic skills and key competencies of individual students. During the course of the project, it became apparent that old crafts are mostly done by people with traditional attitudes and advanced age. The project aimed at the confrontation of these generations with the young people and their experiences. This encounter on a craft, socio-cultural and age-differentiated level resulted in mutual learning. Sustainable learning through independent organizing as well as independent acting were also main goals and increased the quality of the training centers through alternative teaching methods ("hands on mentality") as a result. In the context of our project, entrepreneurship aimed at the acquisition of cultural, social, manual and entrepreneurial skills. In addition to the results already mentioned, the process of learning - the "Entrepreneurial Journey" - was documented in the form of several short films, and the products were presented in a joint craft market in Latvia. The project was divided into the following activities: C 6. job shadowing on the topic of inclusion. C 1. kick off, research, selection of project partners C 2. creation design and prototype of a new product C 3. preparation production and marketing of handicraft products C 4. implementation marketing materials C 5. market - final project presentation in the form of a market, traveling exhibition in the form that each school received one product for their own school site for publication. http://www.hbla-oberwart.at/home/ https://sites.google.com/view/erasmusreanimatingcraftmanship/home/ Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)