A co-operation project for the innovation and exchange of good practices
Alternative Routes to Success
A.R.T.S.
A co-operation project for the innovation and exchange of good practices
The Project
Alternative Routes to Success (ARTS) is a creative arts project designed to address the barriers to social and economic participation faced by people who are disadvantaged through disability, mental health issues and/or life limiting health problems. It will address lack of confidence, reduced motivation and a lack of appropriate qualifications.
By bringing together best practice from organisations across Europe with a wide range of knowledge and experience in these areas, ARTS will explore how the arts can be used to overcome these barriers by providing accessible routes to learning and employment based on equality.
Objectives
• to give recognition to the achievements of people who are disadvantaged through disability through the development of a framework for a new and innovative accreditation tool which is accessible, relevant, transferable and equal to mainstream qualifications.
• to develop the evaluation and self-evaluation techniques required to measure and recognise skill development
• to provide training for adult education staff which will improve their skills and competencies
• to raise the profile of disadvantaged adults locally regionally and nationally
The project will target adults who have learning disability, mental health issues and/or life limiting health problems with the learners on the project being the adult educators who work with them.
Methodology
All participants will work together through a series of creative arts workshops and activities gaining practical experience and knowledge. Learners will work with their groups in their own institutions, exploring and developing ideas generated. The project will involve disadvantaged people at its core and will involve learning processes which grow from an exploration of their differences and experiences.
In order to develop an accreditation framework we must first explore evaluation methodologies that allow people to see what they have learned through creative explorations. The main vehicle for these explorations will be the transnational learning activities which will take place in each partner country. Each meeting will explore a different strand of evaluation and accreditation and will involve a combination of seminars, practical creative workshops, skill shops, focused conversation and evaluation.
Target group
People with disabilities
People with mental problems
People with health issues
Activities
– Weekly art labs on art techniques
– Creation of framework that will develop the recognition of learning of the target group, through art.
– Creation of a toolkit (on DVD and on-line format) to resources and techniques on how artists and people who work with disabled, learn and develop evaluation techniques and facilitate self-evaluation.
– Participation in organized learning activities in each one of the partner countries (February 2016- Sweden, June 2016- Italy, October 2016- UK, February 2017- Greece, June 2017- Spain).
Dissemination tools
Facebook AltRoutes
Twitter @ARTS1518
Blog alternativeroutes.wordpress.com
Duration of the project
The project will run from 1st of October 2015 to 1st of July 2018.
Partners
Headway Arts – UK (co-ordinator)
Medlefors Folk High School – Sweden
Teatro Nucleo S.C.A.R.L.– Italy
ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ – Greece
COGAMI– Spain
Funding Body
The project is supported by the Erasmus Programme + KA2 Strategic Partnerships in Education EU Adult sector.