Plus Photo is a non-formal education project to awaken and boost people's imagination and creativity through digital photography as a medium for personal development and social inclusion, with the following objectives: - Reintegrating personal experience in collective history and developing imagination and creativity as agents of social cohesion; - Improving basic and transversal competences (civic, intergenerational, intercultural, linguistic and communicational); - Improving the integrated use of digital devices and ICT; - Supporting the inclusion of target groups with fewer opportunities; - Recognizing the contribution of lifelong learning to personal fulfillment and community well-being; - Increasing the quality of the work, activities and practices of organizations and their staffs; - Building capacity of organizations to work transnational and across sectors; - Improving the competences of educators and other adult education staff, in general; - Supporting European citizenship and bringing the European dimension to the local level.
The UN Framework for the Immediate Socio-Economic Response to COVID 19 (2020) crisis warns that “the pandemic is far more than a health crisis: it is affecting societies and economies at their core. While the impact of the pandemic will vary from country to country, it will most likely increase poverty and inequalities at a global scale, making achievement of SDGs even more urgent”. The pandemic crisis was followed by the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine and a new economic crisis. Meanwhile, the climate threat has become more evident and pressing. Insecurity and fear have increased among European citizens, with more serious effects on the most unprotected people and with fewer opportunities. The Plus Photo project is a non-formal educational response to this disturbing situation. Through the practice of digital photography, people develop their ability to react to the crisis and adapt to new societal realities and become co-builders of inclusive and supportive European communities.