Two days online. The training that was supposed to take place in Bologna went remarkably well online. Our Italian partners explained many things about the way they approach their work.
Training simple project
Good Footprint
Writing the next application
GOOD FOODPRINT is the name of the project that we have been writing in recent weeks the ambition is to use arts and participation to raise awareness among young people about urgent issues like the relation between the food we eat and our environmental footprint.It was submitted under the extra Erasmus+ funding for art and culture that recently became available because of the Covid pandemic.
chrysalis & the butterfly
Organise an autobiographical activity within the prisons to promote and encourage the reconsideration of the past and the planning of the future “beyond the bars”.
– Creating a space for reflection on specific topics to allow prisoners to redefine their lives during and after their experience in prison; – Strengthening the identity and the self-esteem; – Encouraging and motivating prisoners to describe their personal experiences and to communicate – even within a European context – the difficulties of living in prisons;
– Comparing the outcome with similar experiences of other European prisons; – Presenting their work to the regional networks operating within the prisons
Partners:
Italie
Slovenie
Kroatie
Spanje
Portugal
Frankrijk
BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
Weblink:
http://www.prison-education-wiki.eu
Identify and collect knowledge acquired through EU and other projects in recent years and to bring all this information together in a WIKI, a Wikipedia like website.
– identifying organizations to visit through desktop research and through listing existing contacts.
– individual support and travel grant in jobshadowing and structures courses and training events in Europe
partners Nederland:
Klick F1: https://clickf1.nl
Educatie achter buitenlandse tralies: https://www.eabt.nl/nl
Valk en Uil: https://valkenuil.nl
EPEA: https://epea.com
De Nieuwe Kans: https://www.denieuwekans.org
Art of freedom
Produce and publish two educational books (manuals) explaining and displaying different aspects of artwork in the prison.
Artists involved in working in prisons need to go through proper education:
– a different approach to work,
-a different approach to the people they will encounter.
Promote education in prisons, search for professional associates, the exchange of knowledge and the dissemination of good practice have been implemented in the European area for a long time. The transnational implementation of the project will use the specific knowledge and expertise off each partner.By educating the prison system’s expert staff about artistic activities, part of the scientific field of medicine and psychology, it is one of the important lifelong literacy processes.
Partners:
Kroatië: https://www.hdlu.hr/eng/
Hongarije: https://uni-eszterhazy.hu/en
Polen: https://en.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/
final meeting PAC
About 120 people came to visit the final conference of the PAC project on active citizenship for prisoners. The meeting was at the Parliament of Brussels, a beautiful building in the center of the town. We were looking back on a very nice and successful project with some nice and inspiring results.
Kick off Simple project Malmo
Another European project: SIMPLE had the kick off meeting in Malmö, Sweden.
SIMPLE stands for Social Integration of Migrants and activation of Paths for Learning and Employability.
Simple is a internationals project funded by Erasmus+, aiming at people that are victims of human trafficking. The project is focusing on migrant women. The ambition is to explore, adapt and approach a method developed in Italy to work on the trauma these woman have developed. We all work with storytelling and visual narrative.
SIMPLE
Website: https://www.simple-project.eu
Facebook Simple https://www.facebook.com/Simple.Project.Comunity
Social Integration of Migrants and activation of Paths for Learning and Employability
Ensure the protection of migrants who were victims of trafficking in human beings, exploitation, traumatic experiences, abuse and violence. Enhance job opportunities for migrants; encourage integration at work and, more in general, into the society.
The SIMPLE project is focused on the psychological wellbeing and the social integration of migrants traumatized by the travel and the human trafficking, with specific attention for women.
Development of an innovative Model of Approach based on visual narrative methodology, accompanied by the guide for operators, consisting of materials and tools and learning pathways to the socio-economic integration of migrant women that aim to maximize the level of integration in the country where their migration route took them.
Partners:
Zweden: https://www.ikf.se/t-en/
Italie: https://www.stepseurope.it
Duitsland:
Spanje:
testing VR game
At De Nieuwe Kans Rotterdam we have been testing our virtual realty game Talk2Me.
Magazine
Another pilot for the PAC project is almost finished. This time in the prison of Krimpen aan den IJssel, near Rotterdam. At a special section of the prison called “de Compagnie” we worked together with some inmates on creating a magazine. “De Compagnie” is a section of the prison, where the inmates are actively involved in working on their return to society. The central theme of the PAC project was Active Citizenship, the magazine we made introduces and inspires future inmates to the possibilities they have to work on their future in prison.