AMIC Presentation

Arts as a Mean for Incresing Confidence

Presentation

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The beneficiaries of the project are young social disadvantaged people that will be encouraged to express their feelings and to surpass the their lack of self confidence, by art – as common language (painting, ceramics, literature or theatre).

Project

About Socrates

Socrates is the European programme for education. Its aim is to promote the European dimension and to improve the quality of education by encouraging cooperation between the participating countries. The programme sets out to develop e Europe of knowledge and thus better cater for the major challenges of this new century : to promote lifelong learning, to encourage access by everybody to education, to acquire qualifications and recognised skills. The first phase of the Socrates programme was for five years (1995-1999). The programme has been renewed and the second phase will run for seven years (2000-2006). Socrates has a budget of 1 850 € million for the seven-year period.

Socrates consists of eight actions :

Comenius : school education :
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/comenius/index_en.html
Erasmus : higher education :
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/erasmus/erasmus_en.html
Grundtvig : adult education and other education pathways :
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/erasmus/erasmus_en.html
Lingua : learning and teaching of European languages :
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/erasmus/erasmus_en.html
Minerva : information and communication technologies in education :
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/erasmus/erasmus_en.html
Observation and innovation of education systems and policies :
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/erasmus/erasmus_en.html
Joint actions with other European programmes :
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/erasmus/erasmus_en.html
Accompanying measures :
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/erasmus/erasmus_en.html

Who is Grundtvig?

Nikoli Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783 – 1872), a Danish clergyman and writer, is regarded as the ideological father of popular and adult education. He advocated “life enlightenment”, aimed at giving each individual, regardless of age or background, the opportunity to learn throughout life. The objective of learning was twofold, to give personal fulfilment to the individual and to ensure the active participation of all citizens in public life.

As a learning method, Grundtvig advocated the use of dialogue and the spoken word. He further believed that teaching should be based on and relate to real-life experiences and not abstract matters. These ideas inspired the creation of the Nordic folk high schools. These residential colleges of non-formal adult education are now established components of the Nordic education system and exist in other countries as well.

What is Grundtvig?

This action is aimed at enhancing the European dimension of lifelong learning. It supports a wide range of activities designed to promote innovation and the improved availability, accessibility and quality of educational provision for adults, by means of European co-operation.

The Grundtvig action addresses a great variety of educational providers, but the final beneficiaries are adults who, at whatever stage of their lives, wish to learn in order to:

increase their capacity to play a full and active role in society and develop their intercultural awareness
improve their employability by acquiring or updating their general skills
enhance their capacity to access or re-enter formal education schemes.

This learning can be accomplished within the framework of formal or non-formal or by means of autonomous learning.