TwistedEdu is an educational project whose overall goal is to contribute to non-formal and informal adult learning with a creative and cultural component to support children in improving their creativity and empathy for vulnerable groups. By developing tools that foster innovative approaches to participation and intercultural dialogue in local languages, this project contributes to the development of digital competencies and skills of adults while also promoting social inclusion of vulnerable groups. More precisely, the project contributes to: the non-formal and informal learning of adults with a creative and empathy component that supports young generation in improving their creativity and sensibility for vulnerable groups the non-formal and informal learning of adults in acquiring new skills and competences, forefronting digital competences social inclusion of vulnerable groups through the arts, by fostering innovative participatory and intercultural dialogue approaches
Fairy tales, as originally written, were perfectly suited to the subject of stigmas. It is only in the more recent sanitised re-interpretations that their valuable lessons have become lost. The modern versions of fairy tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White are very different from their originals. Instead of important life lessons, they teach girls to wait for a prince to save them. Stereotypes like passive women with dubious life goals were not always part of the tales, either. TwistedEDU rewrites these tales with an eye to lessons for a world of empathy and understanding and without bias of the stigmas in question. Re-telling well-known fairy tales provides an important familiarity to effectively emphasize the new digital narrative developments. Needs covered by the project: - Lack of quality content for parental education on creativity and family co-creation - Low level of digital competences among grandparents - Lack of the awareness on the benefits of new and emerging technologies/digital tools