The Afrodita project achieved to: • Support adults at risk of exclusion by providing non-formal education through art & sport training and guidance, as a way of preventing social exclusion: 119 adult learners were directly involved in local trainings. • Empower and strengthen the role of social workers/coaches, exchanging best practices on art & sport pedagogical approaches, making them able to deal with diversity in non-formal learning environment: 12 social workers/AEP were directly involved in international joint staff training. • Build close cooperation between civil society, education and sport organisations, local authorities and the private sector to ensure the active participation of all members of the learning community in acquiring key competences of the adults at risk of exclusion: 11 cooperation agreements at local/regional level were signed for further collaborations in the 4 partner countries, using the Afrodita training methodology. • Involve the wider community in the promotion of EU strategies for life-long learning and social inclusion of disadvantaged adult learners: 96 people from DE & ES were involved in dissemination events, as additional activities implemented by the partners to promote the Afrodita results.
The approach of Education Through Sport, as well as the art education are fully part of the lifelong learning process, which could achieve an impact on the development of a knowledge-based society by enabling disadvantaged adult learners to improve their knowledge, skills and attitudes. The Afrodita project brought together a small-scale partnership of 4 entities from 4 Member States to increase the quality in the adult education work and practices of the organisations involved by creating and sharing a training methodology, using the sport and art for development of key competences of marginalised adults in the participating project countries (Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain) and across Europe. Afrodita offered training sessions tailored to the needs and realities of vulnerable adult learners, enhancing their skills and boosting their employability and integration in our European societies. Moreover, Afrodita focused on the adults' priority of "Improving the competences of educators and other adult education staff", aiming at capacity-building of AEPs, at exchange of best practices and support of the development and sharing of innovative non-formal education methods using art and sport pedagogical approaches in the AE sector.