ART-AGE

Summary of ART-AGE

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

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.

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.