Monday, December 27, 2010

Project partners


"E-C-C Verein fur interdisziplinare Beratung und Bildung"
Education – Culture – Citizenship - AUSTRIA






ECC focuses on the interdisciplinary approach at vocational and personal adult education and counselling:
Training of social competences
Basic skills
Diversity & gender
Train the trainer programmes
European integration
Labour market skills


Verein für Arbeit und Kultur e.V. - GERMANY







VKA, the Association “Culture & Work” (Verein “Kultur und Arbeit” e. V.) is an institution which offers services at the interface of education, culture and working market. Embedded in a network of partners in nine European countries (Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Poland, Greece, United Kingdom and Luxembourg) the association offers expertise in the operational steering of application projects in education (especially vocational training) and cultural economy.


Instituto Politecnico de Beja/Escola Superior de Educacao - PORTUGAL

 






The Beja’s Higher School of Education of (ESEB) is a non-profit public organization, specifically a higher school for dedicated to the training of teachers in cultural, scientific, technical and professional aspects. Direct target groups of ESEB’s activity are students in the age range between 18 and 25 years old in initial education, but also student between 24 and 30 years old in pos-graduation studies.


Cooperativa Cramars - ITALY









Cooperativa Cramars works on a local and regional basis with Adult Community Learning sector. The main activity is the development of training courses but it also does social-economic searches, it livens up marginal communities and promotes equal opportunity projects. Cramars is accredited from the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia to organize courses for apprentices, target for this project (compulsory in our region).


Oberstufenzentrum Burowirtschaft und Verwaltung - GERMANY











OSZ Office Economy and Administration is the umbrella for various educational activities: Apart from secondary highschool and gygmnasium OSZ runs a vocational school for office and administration professions in the private and public sector.
OSZ has 3000 students per year. Within the framework of the educational programme, OSZ is dedicated to promote international relations and to ameliorate the communicative competences among trainees and trainers. These efforts have been acknowledged by receiving a mobility certificate from the German LLP National Agency in 2009.

Project objectives

CONCRETE OBJECTIVES:
• to increase the cooperation between organisations involved in adult education with a holistic learning approach and a focus on the horizontal introduction of aspects of fashion (cultural, ethical, commercial, environmental) into teaching activities and into empowering of learners
• to assist people from disadvantaged groups (migrants, unemployed people, low-level educated persons without basic qualifications) by increasing their motivation to take up learning through renewed motivation by using fashion as a vehicle for learning
• to strengthen the social and civic competences of these learners and also their sense of initiative as well as cultural, economic and ecological awareness.
• to encourage new initiatives in adult education and in VET in the above stated field.

APPROACH:
• Create a dialogue between adult aducation providers from various sectors (schools,universities, adult education providers, vocational qualification....)
• Organise study visits in the countries of the partnership to investigate different models and approaches.
• Include staff members and learners from different European countries in the mobilities and put them together with the aim to communicate both intra- and interculturally in order to reflect fashion aspects at three levels:
their personal fashion identity the fashion dictate of peer groups and parallel sociaties the international fashion market in the context of globalisation
• Involve persons from disadvantaged groups in the discussion process
• Collect and document interesting examples of respective learning activities and initiatives
• Develop a website containing these reports and additional materials like interviews, literature and links
• Inform institutions involved in adult education in the countries of the partnership by offering them the material as a newsletter
• Disseminate the results and make the material available to stakeholders

Project description

Fashion plays an extremely important role in the lives of most juveniles and young adults. Peer groups create an intrinsic net of open or hidden requirements for the individual, and only persons with a high self-esteem and self-conscience dare to negate the dictate of fashion. For low income persons, the inability to equip oneself with all the “must have” very often leads to frustration and to a feeling of inferiority.
Because of the omnipresence of fashion, and the social importance connected with it, “fashion” could therefore be used in the educational sector as an ideal vehicle to convey knowledge about, and competences for the world in which we have tolive and to work. “Fashion talk” means a horizontal educational activity that combines young adults’ passion for fashion with important information about issues which help them to become conscious, socially, economically and environmentally responsible European citizens.

The partnership will organise study visits in the countries of the partnership to investigate different models and approaches. It will put together staff members and learners from different European countries with the aim to communicate and to reflect fashion aspects at their personal levels, the level of the respective peer groups and in the context of globalisation.


This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Vienna Night of Recycling Fashion


The »Long Night of Museums 2010« was celebrated in a special was at the Viennese Museum of Applied Arts (MAK). It organised on 2 Oct 2010 a workshop with a subsequent fashion show with the German recycling fashion designer Stephan Hann. The artist had designed, together with E-C-C, the idea for such a project, and as a consequence, the application for this Learning Partnership was elaborated. Stephan Hann is working for the Oberstufenzentrum, a vocational school in Berlin,where he holds workshop on fashion. This event that was visited by hundreds of people was also the first opportunity for us to to inform interested people about our partnership.