Our shared objectives were common European values: bringing together, making them stronger by joint projects, establishing long-term professional relationships and nurturing these between the participating partners, learning from each other by exchanging good practices and experiences. The most important objective of the international cooperation between the Hungarian coordinating organisation and its two consortium partners, was to allow adult education experts of the participating organisations to gain methodological knowledge and - more importantly - empirical experiences abroad that they can apply in their everyday work, to adopt and test the knowledge acquired and the good practices observed abroad and to pass them on to the adult learners attending their workshops at home.The objectives were set based on institutional needs. The teaching materials as tangible results, workshop experiences, visits, exchanges with other instructors and experience exchange - in addition to developing the basketry skills - also improved the participant’s activities as adult educators.
When planning the project, we first analyzed our own institutional needs, therefore we looked for international cooperation possibilities in fields and on topics (developement of teaching methodology for people with disabilities and of environmentally conscious courses, social sensitization), where our institution needs development.The goal of the project was to allow adult trainers participating in the project to collect, test and develop good practices and teaching methods during the workshops held in their own countries that aim at promoting the social inclusion of persons with disabilities.In other words, the partnership undertook to promote the development of a positive attitude towards people with disabilities and to support the skills development of disabled people.Willow work, and basket weaving in particular, is a craft that dates back thousands of years and can be found all over the world.That is why we wanted to increase the accessibility of this craft among participants with disabilities.In a fast-changing world, our project team wanted to reduce our reliance on plastics, give the disabled community the satisfaction of making things for themselves, and work with natural,unprocessed materials thatbringthemclosertonature