Exploring and exchanging those good practices, in the field of adult education, within the perspective that resilience, like art, permeates and shapes our cultures and constitutes a responsive and generative field that enlivens individuals, communities, institutions, and societies. As a matter of fact, if it is an evidence that resilient human ecosystems adapt rapidly and creatively to constantly changing conditions, the Partnership was convinced that the process of achieving resiliency is an art as well as a science. By implementing the project we wanted to develop good practices to embed resilience literacy in adult education provisions involving multisectoral efforts to manage complex challenges, in co-creative endeavors, positing the synchronicity between innovation and actions taken in order to multiply individual and collective capacities to adapt repeatedly to changing circumstances, contexts and environments: the very essence of resilience. Moreover, the Partner Organizations through the project implementation aimed to exploring how culture and art, as the backbone of societies, provided civilizations’ long-term survival, being able to generate adaptive arrangements that address known and unanticipated change.
We applied for this project to exchange good practices as regards the activation and accession of the resilience literacy as the capacity of people to creatively adapt, using art and culture contents and toolset, to changing environments and contexts. In this perspective the project objectives were rooted on the belief that resilience, like art, permeates and shapes our cultures and constitutes a responsive and generative field that enlivens individuals, communities, institutions, and societies. We addressed the following needs: - reorienting pre-service and in-service training of educators, teachers and other staff members within lifelong learning institutions, youth and cultural and creative sectors, helping the design and introduction of innovative pedagogies, to extend and develop the competences of educators and other personnel who support adult learners to face unprecedented risks, and societal challenges, thus contributing to the recovery resilience of the educational, cultural and creative sectors, building upon the connection between culture/art and sustainability. -exploring how the culture/arts can facilitate learning through engaged senses, bypassing conditioned thinking patterns, helping more persistent experiences