Project “Be creative! - Fostering soft skills through cultural activities” aims remobilization and re-socialization of vulnerable adults using the Cultural activities, especially live spectacle. The aim is to enhance the soft skills of de-affiliated young people in order to facilitate their social, cultural and professional integration. At the end of the project, beneficiaries should be able to reclaim their life course, identify their needs and expectations and set up specific actions according to the scheme “SEE – JUDGE – ACT”. The project aims to empower educators and adults to understand and consequently act on soft skills, defined as character traits or interpersonal aptitudes that affect the ability to work and interact with others, required to smooth their social and professional integration. Adult educators and teachers can play a central role in providing learners with knowledge and practical information to help them understand the challenges and act as active citizens in their local communities, individually or collectively. Be creative! project aims to: 1. Create an androgogy method and training resources destined to the trainers (Users - Training for trainers/counsellors/teachers) to enable them to build participative, empowering and emancipating training sequences using Cultural activities (especially live performance activities and techniques), 2. The trained trainers will accompany vulnerable adults learners (final beneficiaries) to enhance and mobilize their soft skills to integrate the society. Three main opportunities will be worked with the final beneficiaries: 1. How to introduce oneself through the performing arts / storytelling… in order to create paper but especially audio / video CVs or even pitchs; 2. Intergenerational work on origins (family, environment, etc.) = work on self-knowledge (one’s essence / one’s assets) and self-confidence for a successful professional orientation / adapted to one's personality, wishes and strengths. 3. Acquisition of valuable technical skills and creation of a network. However, a particular focus will be placed on the following soft skills: Communication, Adaptability, Problem solving, Team work, Critical thinking, Conflict resolution and Leadership.
Be creative! project aimed to provide opportunities for everyone to acquire and develop social skills in order to promote employability, socio-educational and personal development, and participation in civic and social life. This involved creating (i) practical artistic and cultural resources, (ii) continuing education for VET professionals and (iii) training or life pathways for users. All was to be accessible from a free, open-access online platform that required no prerequisites for use. These creativity-based resources aimed to develop transversal and, to some extent, digital skills and competences for vulnerable adults and VET professionals. For the former, the aim was also to boost their self-confidence and self-esteem in a tangible and immediate way, while helping them to realise that they possess relevant and appropriate skills, regardless of their previous educational experience, and to encourage them to build up a portfolio of skills.
Various arts and cultural venues remain difficult to access for vulnerable people, despite opening or pricing policies. Support for them is needed well upstream and from the places they frequent in their pathway to integration. Steps need to be taken with them to create or re-establish the desire to take part in cultural activities. Cultural expression is essential for the development of creative skills, which can be transferred to a variety of professional contexts. A deep understanding of one's own culture and a sense of identity can form the basis of a respectful and open attitude towards the diversity of cultural expression. A positive attitude also includes creativity, a willingness to develop one's aesthetic sense through the personal practice of artistic expression and participation in cultural life. Cultural awareness and creative expression of ideas, experiences and emotions in a variety of forms can be taught through the development of soft skills. Because work is an eminently social activity, soft skills are widely sought after by recruiters: they encompass a multitude of abilities, including creativity, ability to adapt quickly to new situations, to solve problems, to persevere in one's commitments or to lead a team.