The objectives of the proposed project are: OBJ-1: To improve the capacity of adult trainers to teach adult learners to become environmentally conscious through creative methods. OBJ-2: To enhance the ability of adult trainers to support adult learners to raise awareness about environmental and climate change challenges and redefine their relationship with nature through an art-based training module. OBJ-3: To promote environmentally sustainable and responsible behavior by integrating sustainable practices in the implementation of the project. OBJ-4: To enhance diversity awareness and promote equal opportunities and access, inclusion and fairness across all the stages of the project by involving participants with fewer opportunities in the implementation of the project. OBJ-5: To increase capacity and professionalism to work at EU level and reinforce cooperation with partners from other countries. OBJ-6: To enhance the access of open source art-based training tools to adult trainers and learners, including those with fewer opportunities, thus reducing disparities and promoting social inclusion.
Many political analysts, scientists and theorists believe that the only way out of this global environmental crisis is to stop the exploitation of natural resources by humans for economic interests and to re-define the human-nature relationship. According to educational theorists, aesthetic experience through artistic education develops awareness of values and relationships not easily perceived through rational education. This project aimed to provide adult trainers with alternative art-based methods which will offer adult learners a possibility of redefining the human-nature relationship while developing their environmental awareness. More specifically, an art-based training module was created which included the development of a kinetic improvisation and experience-based movement methodology, inspired by emotions and feelings stemming from philosophical and literary texts and digital projections related to ecological disasters. The proposed project also reinforced the response of adult training to the need for implementing projects that promote social inclusion, by involving people with fewer opportunities in all the phases of the project.