Erasmus+ project ART&INCLUSION
Erasmus+ project ART&INCLUSION "Non-formal education through art as a tool to social inclusion of people with disabilities and people with mental illness”.
Equal Society participates as a consortium member in the implementation of the project "ART&INCLUSION" Non-formal education through art as a tool to social inclusion of people with disabilities and people with mental illness (2020-1-PT01-KA204-078809) financed by the ERASMUS+ program (KA2 - Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, KA204 – Strategic Partnerships for Adult Education).
The main objectives of the project are; to promote the social inclusion of young adults with disabilities, through the capacity building of professionals and organizations working in this field. The intention is to promote the integration of people with disabilities in the labor market, to create mechanisms that facilitate the transition between education systems and the labor market, to promote access to inclusive general education and lifelong learning systems, with the ultimate goal of promoting equal opportunities and combating discrimination. This strategy also aims to promote personalized/individual learning processes for people with disabilities or mental illness processes. With this project we also aim to promote the exchange of good practices among professionals, aiming its transnational replication. Improving professional knowledge and skills and contributing to the development of innovative practices in adult education, namely non-formal education throughout art. Promoting the production of knowledge in the context of the use of artistic methodologies in non-formal education as an adjunct to the construction of the individual life project of people with disabilities and increasing in the European dimension of each participant and partner organizations; include to improve foreign language learning, especially for partner
organizations and their workers who normally don't have the possibility of thinking at the European level.
Consortium members:
Centro Social de Soutelo (Portugal) - Coordinator
Zdruzenie institut Za Razvoj Na Zaednicata (North Macedonia)
Koinonia Ison Eukairion (Greece)
ARCA Cooperativa Sociale (Italy)
Galileo Progetti Nonprofit Kft. (Hungary)