The aim of the "Re + vita - Revitalization through Culture" project is to activate residents in order to restore or give rural areas new functions, animating social and cultural life - through creative culture, cooperation, communication and creativity. The specific objective is: supporting local social development, education through cultural heritage, culture, economic, environmental and safety, including health. The participants of the project will be (190 people from the Lubelskie and Podlaskie voivodeships) representatives of: Cultural Centers, Rural Housewives' Clubs, OSP, local associations, local institutions, regional representatives of municipal self-governments and two national and two foreign partners (Spain, Belgium) guaranteeing a wide presentation of solutions functioning in the partner country (culture vesus revitalization), tested in the EU. Target groups (members of Cultural Centers, rural housewives' clubs, Volunteer Fire Department, local associations) who, through creative self-learning, together with representatives of Cultural Centers, will acquire new social competences and, through creative culture, develop cooperation models for the province. Podlasie and Lublin. There is a lack of modern, long-term tools, methods, models for acquiring and improving social competences - residents. There is also a lack of a tool for planning the development of their communes through culture and education, which would ensure the continued - continuous - activity of the inhabitants. The result of the project will include: - a developed and tested support model, including cultural and educational support - learning through experience and participation - the final product of the project; - transfer of knowledge and experience from partners (with regard to the new instrument for supporting culture and revitalization); - increasing the institutional efficiency of entities involved in development - a new complementary instrument for supporting residents (a tool based on jointly developed standard and operating procedure - product); - activation of local leaders and non-governmental organizations operating in the environment; - minimizing the phenomenon of social exclusion among people at risk of social exclusion, including youth; - development and promotion of good practices in the scope of undertaken revitalization initiatives of local importance; - developing a model of environmental activities based on the cooperation of various institutions and organizations as well as residents; - creating conditions for the creation of initiatives and structures functioning for the benefit of local communities; - popularization of various forms of social activation of local communities; The long-term result of the project will be the inclusion in public policy and social activation of its participants and communities, and the promotion of the idea of creating theme villages, integrating residents around a common idea and mobilizing them to accept responsibility not only for their own fate, but also for the shape of the environment in which they live. The result will be it also concerned public policies, which cannot be focused solely on meeting the needs of the inhabitants on an ongoing basis, but should also take into account the functioning of rural areas in several or several dozen years. Persons qualified for the project will participate in study visits, trainings and workshops, both foreign and domestic, during which they will develop a new model (product innovation) for overcoming barriers and problems on the basis of the Revitalization Plans and Programs (organizational and process innovation) diagnosed in the two voivodeships. The model will be confirmed by the results of the pilot application of the innovation (testing - showing its advantage or deficiencies over the current practice). The development of the model was divided into phases: Phase I. Initial recognition of the local environment; Phase II. Environmental diagnosis; Phase I and II national meetings 15 people Podlaskie / 15 people Lublin. Departure of participants for foreign mobility - 15 people in Podlasie / 15 people in Lublin Phase III. Creating a model Local workshops 16 group X 10 people parallel to Podlasie / Lublin; Phase IV. Activities - foreign mobility of participants 8 group x 10 people Podlaskie / Lubelskie; Phase V. Evaluation; Phase VI. Leaving the environment / changing the role of an animator. Development / adoption of 2 models of creative culture, Podlaskie Voivodeship and Lubelskie Voivodeship + dissemination of the model in Poland and internationally.
Our aim was to activate residents to restore or give new functions to rural areas, to animate social and cultural life - through creative culture, cooperation, communication, creativity. The specific objective was to support local social development, education through cultural heritage, culture,. economic, environmental and safety including health. The project was designed to develop and promote good practice in local revitalisation initiatives. We wanted to create and test a model of support, cultural and educational - the final product of the project. We also wanted to achieve the development of a model of environmental activities based on the cooperation of various institutions and organisations as well as residents, minimising the phenomenon of social exclusion among people at risk of social exclusion, including youth, activating local leaders, NGOs operating in the community and the transfer of knowledge and experience from partners (in terms of a new instrument to support culture and revitalization).
In our study of cultural development in the Podlaskie and Lubelskie regions, we noted that the number of cultural initiatives has decreased, especially in rural regions. We noticed that there is a lack of modern, long-term tools, methods, models for the acquisition and improvement of social competences - of the inhabitants. At the same time, there is a lack of planning tools for the development of their municipalities through culture and education, which will ensure that the inhabitants continue to be active. Our aim was to give rural areas new functions, animating social and cultural life. The project responded to the need to support local social development, education through cultural heritage, culture, economy, environment and safety including health. The participation of two foreign partners (Spain, Belgium) guaranteed a broad presentation of solutions operating in the partner country, (culture vesus revitalisation), tested within the EU.