The partnership project "Unnecessary - useful and aesthetic. Creative approach to recycling "is a part of an idea of sustainable development and lifelong learning. The project assumes socially inclusive activities, promotion of proper behavior in relation to the environment and preservation of the natural balance. The project is also devoted to the contribution of citizens to environmental protection and the creative use of waste in art, art therapy and to improving the ecological awareness of adults, including those at risk of marginalization (disabled, senior citizens , migrants and refugees). The partnership consists of 7 organizations: 3 organizations from leading countries in environmental protection: Austria and Sweden as well as organizations from Portugal, Italy, Croatia and Poland - the countries falling behind in this ranking. The main objective of the project is to raise the level of educational qualifications and the target group will be educators working with adults, including those at risk of marginalization. Our project involves the following goals: developing cooperation and innovation of educators working to raise ecological awareness and creative activity of adults; raising and broadening the professional qualifications of people working with adults; dissemination of art-therapy methods of work among staff working with people from communities at risk of marginalization and people working for these environments as well as increasing the chances of developing individual educators participating in the project; expanding knowledge and skills in the care of the natural environment and related to the subject of the natural environment social responsibility as well as expanding cultural competences and developing the creativity of employees and volunteer partners working with partner organizations; increasing the awareness of adults, including disadvantaged people, regarding the impact of pro-ecological behavior on the natural environment, health and well-being. As a result of the provided training, thematic organization of conferences, workshop classes and open demonstrations of working methods, the planned results will include: increase of professional skills of educators in the field of working with adults, including those at risk of marginalization and people working for these communities; acquiring new educators and improving existing psychological, interpersonal and methodological skills in working with a group, necessary during animating educational classes with the use of art-therapy methods; increasing the chances of individual development and raising the self-esteem of educators participating in the project as well as employees acting for the benefit of the at risk of marginalization. The recipients will be indirect participants in the project dissemination activities at local and international level. They will be both educators and recipients led by educators' classes. Around 1000 people will be involved in the project. The result of partner visits will be getting to know the conditions of work related to the same field in other EU countries and learning about the methods of work and their implementation, which gives the opportunity to impact each of the partner organizations. In the project, we are planning to deal with sustainable consumption and create a separate publication about it - a handbook containing a program of two-day workshops "Upcycle of used electrical and electronic equipment". The aim of the workshop is to raise awareness of the available natural resources in electrical and electronic equipment and the need for proper processing of e-waste. A durable permanent result of the project will be a generally available project website, photos and description methods of work on the websites of partner organizations and the handbook. The results of the project will be placed on the platform of European Commision EPALE. In this way, we would like to assure our design a special European dimension of education in the field of open educational resources.
The project involves the following objectives: - to develop cooperation and exchange of experience of educators for creative activity of persons at risk of marginalization: disabled, elderly people, migrants and refugees, - averaging and expanding professional qualifications of people working with groups at risk of marginalization, - dissemination of art-therapy methods of work among staff working with people from communities at risk of marginalization and people working for these environments, as well as increasing the chances of developing individual educators participating in the project, - expanding knowledge and skills in the care of the natural environment and related to the subject of the natural environment of social responsibility as well as expanding cultural competences and developing the creativity of employees and volunteer partners cooperating with partner organizations, - increasing the awareness of disadvantaged people (disabled, elderly people, migrants and refugees) in the scope of the impact of pro-ecological behavior on the environment, health and well-being. Methods used in the project: ecological education, art therapy, artistic and theater activities, lectures, workshops, presentations, open work methods.
Project "Unnecessary - useful and aesthetic. Creative approach to recycling " is part of the idea of sustainable development, involves socially inclusive activities, promotion of proper behavior in relation to the environment, preservation of natural balance between nature and non-nature. The project is dedicated to the contribution of citizens to environmental protection; environment with its impact on individuals, good health and well-being of members of local communities in the partner countries, as well as promoting creative use of waste in art, art therapy and improvement of ecological awareness of persons at risk of marginalization (disabled, seniors, migrants and refugees). Moreover after conducting an analysis before applying for funding, we came to the conclusion that there are no adequate training materials on the publishing market for teaching staff dealing with the issue of upcycling and the use of recycled materials in applied and artistic art.