Interfolk
Icelandic study visit
Icelandic study visit
Interfolk arranged a 4-days in-service training course, 22nd - 25th of September 2015 in Vartov, Copenhagen.
The course title was: "Lifelong learning in amateur art and voluntary culture - how to document and promote the benefits".
The course was planned in cooperation with Bente von Schindel, Secretary General the National Association of Cultural Councils in Denmark; and Susan Fazakerley, Secretary General in AKKS, the Danish national Amateur Arts Association.
Icelandic participants
The programme was disseminated as part of the initiated EVA network, and the participants came from the now closed Cultural Council of North East Iceland with office in Akureyri; and from Glaumbær Old Turf Farm in Skagafjörður in North Iceland.
Learning objectives
The overall aim of the course was to introduce new methods to document and promote the activities in amateur art and voluntary culture from the perspective of lifelong learning.
The objectives were:
- To present lifelong learning discourses with relevance for the main activities of amateur art and voluntary culture.
- To provide new approaches, methods and tools to document the learning benefits of amateur arts and voluntary culture.
The course programme
Outcome
The participants gained new methods to document the benefts of the cultural activities,
and the Icelandic contact person, which was the leader of the Cultural Council of North East Iceland helped us the following year to invite HAC - Husavik Academic Center as partner in the SPARK Nordplus project, 2016 - 2018, and later we have had the joy and honour to be partner with HAC in several Nordic and EU projects.
