The main aim of the international project “Parenthood as a motivation for lifelong learning in Mother Centers” is to strengthen the movement of Mother Centers in Europe. We want to achieve this goal by defining the basic Mother Centers know-how, as places of lifelong learning of attending parents, identifying differences in each participating country given by historical, social, cultural and legislative specifics, as well as to inspire Mother Centers operators in partner countries. The project activities will follow the Mother Centers idea gradually spreaded from Germany - the country of its origin - to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. Participating organizations will share and inspire each other with specific approaches to the lifelong learning in Mother Centers in each country. To meet the objectives will serve an innovative output in form of the handbook “Parenthood as motivation for lifelong learning in Mother Centers”, which will include a brief history of the movement, common know-how of Mother Centers and inspiring examples of adult learning and programs in Mother Centers in each country. It will serve in participating countries as an informative material about Mother Centers movement and to further dissemination of the Mother Centers idea even after the project. The international team will create the handbook whose members will be representatives of the Mother Centers know-how in their own country. 16 persons from four cooperating organizations from five countries - Czech Republic, Germany. Slovakia, Slovenia - will actively participate in the implementation of the three-year project. The main benefit for the project participants will be strengthening of personal knowledge capacity of Mother Centers know-how, including their history and present situation and last but not least the active European togetherness. Project outputs will also be used by participating umbrella organizations and the Mother Centers that they represent. Collaboration on the project strengthens partnership and encourage participants to further cooperation even after the project completion. The experience gained from this project realization will be transferable to other EU member countries and European Mother Centers movement will obtain a greater recognition at the global level.
The main aim of our project was to strengthen the Mother Centers movement in Europe, to identify the differences of Mother Centers in each partner country and to inspire Mother Center operators. To reach this aim we implemented the following steps: - we defined the basic common know-how of Mother Centers - we identified differences in each country based on historical, social, cultural and legislative conditions - we defined the Mother Centers impact on families and European society - we published all previous points in our intellectual output in form of a handbook - we learned from each other and deepend our cooperation - we identified the common needs for further cooperation
We had two main needs for this project. The first need was to unify the know-how of Mother Centers at the European level, with the national specifics, so that it would be possible to rely on it in the future and return to it. We intended to summarize all this in our intellectual output, in the form of a handbook. The second need of this project was to mobilize stagnant European cooperation between national networks of Mother Centers and to create an active partnership at European level. Also to draw inspiration from each other in areas in which individual partner countries are "more advanced", to learn and implement the knowledge gained in the partner countries.