Welcome on the Art-Connection website

This site is dedicated to the European Art-Connection project (Erasmus+ 2019 > 2022) led by four partners located in France, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom, working in the sectors of adult lifelong learning, inclusion and social work, but also cultural heritage and higher education and research.

The Art-Connection partners have developed a project approach and innovative contents based on humanity’s shared informal cultural heritage, in connection with the 8^th European Key Competence, relating to cultural sensitivity and expression.

Art-Connection partners have developed a Participatory Action Research approach as a cultural entry point to produce a set of educational resources contributing to a paradigm shift in terms of orientation and recognition, valorization, and validation up to the certification of acquired experience (RVAE).

Art-Connection, space of resources to

• contribute to the reflection on the impact, role and global issues of cultural competence and creative potential, located in cultural situations.
• offer educational materials allowing any public or private organization, commercial or non-market, to engage with the development of skills relating to “cultural sensitivity and expression”
• bring elements of understanding to answer multiple questions about
  • the links between cultural and other professional, social or civic competences,
  • what these links imply for the training of educators, trainers, therapists, institutional actors, and
  • how to value and bring real recognition to organizations and systems that effectively mobilize arts and culture as tools to develop education.
• promote inclusive pedagogical models for
  • promoting access to pathways to strengthen key skills for vulnerable groups,
  • encouraging and support the engagement of individuals in a creative process of individual and collective self-directed learning towards a better mobilization and development of transversal skills,
  • contributing to innovations in educational methods and the creation of training actions,
  • supporting change and a new paradigm shift in terms of intercultural/intergenerational adult learning throughout life, in learning territories,
  • contributing to job creation and economic growth to meet the challenges of inclusion and social cohesion in the territories.

Art-Connection productions

All productions of the project are available on page resources.

A European memorandum summarises the project’s achievements and the lessons learned from the project and proposes recommendations to contribute to the development of actual learning cultural territories.

The memorandum is accompanied by all the projects’ intellectual productions that constitute its toolbox, the content of which is as follows:

• • A state of play
  • A theoretical and methodological framework for Participatory Action Research
  • A reference framework for the Cultural Connector in adult education to enhance the 8th European Key Competence (cultural sensitivity and expression) and develop individual and collective competences in the service of social cohesion
  • A pedagogical tool consisting of a general document in the form of 4 case studies from participatory action research in the partners’ territorial contexts, including concrete illustrations and methodological sheets
  • 6 UNhandbooks produced by the partners on themes related to the various action research carried out, including a large number of varied resources, textual or audio-visual
  • Cultures and learning process (APapp)
  • Cultural experiences and self-directed learning (APapp)
  • The street as a place of non-formal education (CAI)
  • Creation of Soundscapes (Lboro)
  • Cultural learning territory (APapp)
  • Working on cultural heritage (ILS)
  • A Glossary of the project’s keywords
  • A bibliography allowing readers to pursue their own research related to the theme of the project

News of the project