ART-AGE

ART-AGE, presentation during the European conference in Utrecht, April 2014

ART-AGE, guided tour during the European conference in Utrecht, April 2014

ART-AGE, group of participants at the European conference in Utrecht, April 2014

ART-AGE, participants at the European conference in Utrecht, April 2014

ART-AGE, 2012 - 2014

Interfolk was coordinator of Grundtvig Learning partnership: "Art-based learning and active Ageing" (ART-AGE), Aug 2012 to July 2014 (24 months)

The partnership circle

included six organisations from five EU countries, where four were national umbrella organisations of amateur culture and liberal adult education, while two represent research expertise in the area of lifelong learning and culture in a civil society context.

Interfolk, Institute for Civil Society (DK).

Hans Jørgen Vodsgaard, Head of Institute

National Association of Cultural Councils (DK).

Bente von Schindel, Secretary General

Landelijk Kennisinstituut Cultuureducatie en Amateurkunst - LKCA (NL)

Jan Van den Eijden, Senior Adviser. Chantal de Bonth-Vromans, Adviser

Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities (SI)
Marjeta Turk, Assistant Director for General Affairs. Urška Bittner Pipan, Assistant Director for Programme.
Voluntary Art network (UK). Changed name 2018 to Creative Lives (UK)

Daniel Carpenter, Link Coordinator. Gillian Harrison, development officer.

Maxine Webster, development officer. Robin Simpson, chief executive.

Löftadalens Folk High School (SE).

Michael Deubler, Principal. Sven Ögren, arts teacher. Gunnel Hillerström Bengtsson, arts

teacher

Background

The European Commission had designated 2012 as the European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations. This Learning Partnership intended to address the educational challenge of an ageing population as well as help provide elder people with pathways in amateur culture to improve their lifelong learning and life quality.

Aim and key activities

The overall aim was to provide and put into practice new methods and approaches to document, validate and profile the qualities and outcome of amateur culture in relation to active ageing of elder learners.

The key activities were:

To exchange knowledge and experiences of the core qualities of the art based learning in relation to active ageing.
To complete a need analysis to clarify the state of art and present a baseline for succeeding improvements.
To transfer or develop new methods of documentation and validation of learning outcome in the area.
To test different methods for documentation and validation of art based learning for elder participants.
To gain feed-back by completing a transnational seminar for elder participants from the partnership organisations.
To provide a knowledge portal and provide dissemination and exploitation activities

Outcome

The planned outcome was to provide better methods to document, validate and profile the qualities of amateur culture for elder people. This can also help to improve the internal quality assurance and succeeding learning activities for elder people as well as strengthen the external promotion to main stakeholders.

More information

Task plan

FIRST PHASE - CLARIFY VIEWS ON ART BASED LEARNING AND ACTIVE AGEING

WP 01: Start-up project planning, Aug – Sept 2012

WP 02: First meeting in London, UK, 3rd – 5th of Sept, 2012

WP 03: Need analysis, Oct – Dec 2012

SECOND PHASE - PROVIDE VALIDATION METHODS

WP 04: Second meeting in Åsa, SE, Jan 2013

WP 05: Qualify validation methods, Feb – May 2013

THIRD PHASE - APPLY AND TEST METHODS OF VALIDATION

WP 06: Expert seminar and third meeting in Copenhagen, DK, Primo June 2013

WP 07: Test methods, Aug – Nov 2013