Interfolk
ADD mobility
ADD mobility
Interfolk was coordinator of a Danish consortium, who received an Erasmus+ mobility grant to complete staff training courses, entitled: “Cultural sustainability in sparsely populated areas with added community values”.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemy the period was prolonged from July 2019 – June 2020 to July 2019 - December 2021.
The consortium and the participants
included as applicant Interfolk, Institute for Civil Society and the two partners, Musisk Center Danmark and Det Frivillige Kulturelle Samråd, which both are national umbrella associations in the civil society sector of amateur arts, voluntary culture and heritage.
The participants represented staff from Interfolk, DFKS and MCD, such as managers, board members, consultants, instructors, teachers, and other paid and voluntary learning facilitators.
Learning objectives
The objectives were to strengthen the participants' competences in promoting cross-cultural activities in sparsely populated areas with added community values, especially by strengthening the “citizen help citizen" approach, where voluntary culture associations can help to provide available and involving arts and culture activities with an added value for civic participation, community bonding and local identity.
The two training courses
We had planned two courses, respectively Sept 2019 in Lithuania, where RMDA - Estate Academy of Museum Rumsiskes should be host; and May 2020 in York, United Kingdom, VA - Voluntary Arts Network will be host. But due to covid-19 we had to postpone the courses and changed the second destination from York in UK to Pireaus in Greece.
The baltic course
We had a 6-day Baltic study visit, 11th - 16th October 2021 for 8 participants, where
we visited former Erasmus+ and Nordcplus partners in Lithuania and Latvia to gain new experiences and knowledge on how to promote cultural sustainability in sparsely populated areas with added community values:
- Day 1: A workshop and guided tour at the Open Air Ethnographic Museum in Rumšiškės, including a prsentation of the Exile and Resistance place.
- Day 2: A guided tour at the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in Vilnius in the morning, and in the afternoon a workshop, class visits, and arts session at the Third Age University in Vilnius.
- Day 3: Workshop and guided tour at the Liubavas Manor with the Europe Sculpture park, and a presentation and workshop session with the leaders of the Lithuanian Association of Castles and Manors.
- Day 4 and 5: Visit to Rite Folk High School in Latvia, including guided tours to local museums and artist and workshop sessions about organisering adult educations and culture activities in sparsely populated areaswith added community values.
The Baltic course programme can be seen here!
The Greek course
We had a week course, 28th Nov - 3rd Dec 2021 in Piraeus, Greece for 6 participants, entitled: "The world, our classroom: Museums and cultural landscapes”, which the Education Center, IDEC provided.
The programme included class room presentations, workshops and guided excursions to antigue heritage places as Acropolis hills and Pantheon; and Sounio and theTemple of Poseidon as well as new cultural places like the SNF Cultural Centre including the national Opera and the national library; a visit to Archelon, NGO-Society for the protection of Sea Turtle; and Nautical Museum of Piraeus and the Gas museum – Technopolis Athens.
The Pireaus course programme can be seen here!
