Report meeting Rome

Program Grundtvig Partnership
Project:
“ LET‘S MIX UP: CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN ADULT EDUCATION”
REPORT OF THE 4TH EUROPEAN MEETING IN ROME ON THE 10-13 DECEMBER 2010.
E.Ri.Fo is a non-profit organization, which was born in 2000 in Rome, at the dawning of the third
millennium, from the synthesis of activities of Social Research and Training.
It carries out research-training- and guidance integrated interventions and promotes cultural
exchanges and mobility in Europe, having as a main objective the valorization of non formal and
informal learning.
E.Ri.Fo hosted its following Europeans partners:
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CULTURE CIRCLE KULTURBÜRO WIEN from Vienna, AUSTRIA
LIETUVOS JAUNŲJŲ MOKSLININKŲ SĄJUNGA from Vilnius, LITHUANIA
ESCUELA OFICIAL DE IDIOMAS MARÍA MOLINER from Almansa, SPAIN
PARK KULTUROWY FORTYFIKACJI MIEJSKICH “TWIERDZA GDAŃSK” from
Gdansk, POLAND
1. The 10th December 2010
During the First day of the meeting, we visited the new Planetarium of Rome, we have been hosted
by the Director of the Museum and he explained us the new approach on the planetarium to increase
the interest of people concerning astronomy. So we learn astronomy visiting the planetarium and we
have had a demonstration of different constellation present in the sky. A particular attention has
been brought about artificial light pollution. The trainer said us that pollution touch not only the air
that we breathe or the food we eat. The permanent illumination of our big city contribute to darken
our vision of stars, and damage the life of animal species. So we learn astronomy, history of
astronomy trough studies’ centuries, and awareness of a new form of pollution. All the people were
very interested by these informal learning.
At the end of the afternoon , we had organised a meeting dedicated to multiculturalism and the
struggle against fundamentalism. The meeting took place in the Multicultural Center Baobab in
Rome, which is managed and settled by migrants and refugees at the same time. The meeting began
with a presentation of the film "Agora", directed by Alejandro Amenabar.
The film constituted a perfect base to create reflection and debate about intolerance between
different religions
Guests from more that 10 nations and at least two continents (Europe and Africa) participated to
this multicultural event. This has been an occasion for developing tolerance towards multiethnic
societies and our “social competences”. Actually, the latter is one of the EIGHT key competences
identified by the European Union for lifelong learning and personal development, active citizenship
and social cohesion. In particular, the Social competence refers to personal ability to understand the
multicultural and socio-economical dimension of the European society, and the way each national
cultural identity interacts with the European identity.
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After the debate , we take a moment to the “Socialising emotions session” where all peoples have
been invited to write emotion concerning the movie, the feeling of tolerance and fundamentalism.
This meeting has been followed with a dinner prepared by the member of the Baobab centre
It’s was a good way for the Baobab centre to present its good practice of socio-working integration.
During the dinner , we continued with “expressing emotions in Jam session”, each participant had
the possibility to freely accede to the stage, equipped with many instruments, and sing and/or dance
freeing own emotions. Metaphorically, the emotions developed during the film show, have been
transferred from the pools to the stage and each of us will be able to transform own emotions into
music. Music affects emotions and thoughts, orienting them to a positive attitude towards life, and
help us know the multicultural dimension of the new Europe we are living.
2. The 11th December 2010
The second day of the meeting elapsed mostly on a discussion devoted to our project. During the
morning session E.Ri.Fo. presented its own approach to adult education and the way how to certify
the acquired knowledge. E.Ri.Fo., in order to educate adults, offers on-line training courses on a
variety of topics, using e-learning platform docebo.com. During the presentation of the platform,
actual types of training courses were shown, that are currently present on the platform. Moreover,
we got to know the method how to use these courses on the platform. We could see many courses
on various subjects, primarily available in Italian, but also in English.
In addition, participants had also an opportunity: - to see a fragment of one training course, - to
obtain a piece of information about courses that are the most popular among students, - to get to
know about the number of students benefiting from the courses. During this session, we saw the
film, which was made after project partners meeting in Vienna. Due to the length of the film,
together with partners, we decided that the movie will be shorten to 5 minutes. After the movie we
heard a lecture prepared by the partner from Vienna about the fundamental differences in
experimental and formal approaches to education and we received materials to supplement the
project after a meeting in Vienna. Futhermore, an important element of the discussion were topics
directly designed to our project, e.g. progress reports in each partner country, the way of project
results dissemination (project partner’ websites, press releases, a new website of the project), local
activities in each partner country, the content of the final product and the proposed content of the
film from the meeting in Rome. At the end of the meeting, E.Ri.Fo. showed a film that will be part
of the film from the meeting in Rome.
During the session all partners agreed as follows:
- E.Ri.Fo. and partner from Austria (Monika)- will shorten the video to 5 min.,
- E.Ri.Fo. will prepare:
- presentation of e-learning platform and a description about how to use it,
- fact-sheet about own institution in both paper and electronic version,
- website www.candia.webs.com made by Monika has been approved by all partners as
aproject website and will include all final project results.
- each partner continuously will send materials to Monika in order to publish them on the
website.
- the date of the last project partners meeting, planned for early May 2011 in Vilnius, will be
officially confirmed by a partner from Lithuania.
ERIFO – Ente per la ricerca e la formazione
Sede legale: Cir.ne Nomentana 402, 00162 Roma
Sede operativa: Via Valpolicella 33, 00141 Roma
P.I. 06024731009 REA941884
Tel. 0039-06-86325125 0039 329-2156021 email [email protected] www.erifo.org
In this day, after the session we went to the Vatican Museum, in order to intensify our knowledge
about works of art gathered here by various popes. The museum is the richest collection of art from
around the world, so vast that, according to guides, if we had devoted only a few seconds of our
attention to each exhibits - viewing the entire collection would have taken over 8 years.
3. The 12th December 2010.
The Third days, we invited our partners to visit Rome and “to learn trough discovering”. Rome is
the perfect city to learn about history walking in street, visiting churches, museums.
We can discover and understand the way of life of the previous civilisation, discover our common
history and you can make the link between the big Rome (Empire or Republic) and our European
Union.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission
cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the
information contained therein.
ERIFO – Ente per la ricerca e la formazione
Sede legale: Cir.ne Nomentana 402, 00162 Roma
Sede operativa: Via Valpolicella 33, 00141 Roma
P.I. 06024731009 REA941884
Tel. 0039-06-86325125 0039 329-2156021 email [email protected] www.erifo.org