The objectives pursued were inspired by a broad vision of development and, consequently, their finalization was consistent with the need to: • develop among the members and the board of directors a vision and a plan of educational policy on internationalization, • manage and organize various types of international activities, with or without partners abroad, • ensure the quality of the projects and their connection to the curriculum, • stimulate the rationalization of curricular elements with an international orientation, • successfully apply for grants under the various European programmes with particular regard to Erasmus+, • develop communication and intercultural collaboration with foreign partners, • develop activities for the growth of skills and operations in the area of disadvantage. We consider the activities proposed in this project consistent with the needs of the proposing Association and its human resources involved in Adult Education as they affect the quality of its training offers and the progressiveness of its constant internationalization process. For the participants who deal with management and strategy in fda, the goal was to improve their language skills and those more specifically technical, acquiring new skills in the field of disadvantage and receiving new stimuli for design in the emotional, artistic and intercultural fields. In particular, acquiring Spanish language skills was an important basic objective of our Europeanisation strategy as it is the language we use most in our European projects. In future, trained operators will be able to dialogue and work more easily with new partners in countries that present this language as an official language not only in Europe but all over the world. The last objective was to acquire skills and experience that would also favor new future designs that will aim at results such as - introduction of new teaching methods, - use of new skills in professional communication, - raising awareness of the issues and challenges launched by the United Nations regarding the issue of social inclusion through culture.
Compared to the skills already present in FDA, the most urgent need perceived at the time of the presentation of the project proposal was that of strengthening the professionalism of its human resources, both those who deal with management and strategy and those who deal with teaching, on new directions. In order to increase its action, in particular that dedicated to Adult Education, it felt the need to update and innovate its management and communication skills by thinking and perceiving itself more and more in a supralocal and supranational dimension. With regard to this component of the needs within the association, we have identified various guidelines that would allow us to grow in diversified areas and in a perspective of increasing Europeanization. The first was aimed at implementing the linguistic range available within the association. Considering that the English and French languages are already quite covered within the FDA, we thought of training resources that can communicate in Spanish. Wanting then to direct in the future our educational offer towards people in conditions of psychic and social disadvantage we thought of specific mobility that would support the needs related to the emotional sphere focusing on Emotional Education and Theater. Consequently, the project aimed to improve the areas related to: - the skills of management and staff, - teaching, - language skills, - relations with foreign partners with a view to increasing their European dimension, - the use of Emotional Education - the use of artistic tools in learning, - social inclusion through the arts.