The aim of the project was to create a positive change in children's personalities with the help of art therapy. With visual education, with the help of the sense of success provided by creative activity, the pedagogical task was to restore self-esteem, to set a positive self-image, to develop social competencies and a sense of initiative. While working with the students and working together, with the help of professionals, in addition to the mediation of the arts, a social-educational process also took place, which brought about a change in the personality of young people. When examining the effectiveness of the project, it was proved that creative processes, activity-based development, experiential pedagogy can even be used as a means of breaking out of a disadvantaged situation, which also has a beneficial effect on the undertaking of mobility. With the implementation of the project, we also gained experience in the application of new educational methodologies.
In our school, as well as in the Slovak-Hungarian school that cooperated with us in the tender, it is a common phenomenon that a certain circle of students is unmotivated in terms of learning, target training and mobility, and they lack the human competencies that would help them in self-development and self-management. They do not have a "perspective", an individual strategy for shaping their personal and professional destiny. These young people usually suffer from some disadvantages: inhibition of learning, insufficient social environment, mental problems, and other causes. The teachers of the two schools have been struggling for several years, albeit with different methods, to eliminate or at least alleviate these disadvantages. Based on the resulting idea, we prepared a joint project in which we resorted to the tools of visual culture and artistic education for a complex personality development. The methodology used in the project was based on the well-known "true pearl drawing methodology". It is the pedagogical need of schoolteachers to help those in need and to create opportunities for those who suffer from disadvantages. This commitment is reflected in our internationalisation strategy.