After successful testing of
the Art and Social Change training approach, partners believe that the
innovative educational concept will be used beyond the partnership context and
find its way to a wide audience for sustainable use.
Piloting has shown that art in education can contribute to reach at least the
main objectives that we had established for our project: Develop creativity,
individual satisfaction, reduction of excessive stress and change of
perspective and improvement of understanding at the workplace, respect and
communication in the relationship between medical staff and recoverists. And we
are convinced that the potentials are wider. A condition for the successful project implementation has been the close and
fruitful cooperation of the German and Italian partners from the beginning,
responsible for the pedagogical concept and the training implementation plan,
respectively. The project allowed a common learning at both sites with a European dimension
that involved the other project partners and will have a longer lasting impact.
The continuous exchange has been always stimulating and efficient, leading to
better understanding and allowed transfer of practical experience into a
practice related theory and vice versa. The cooperation has led to continuous improvement
and adaptations of the educational frame that have been broken down and
mirrored afterwards in the training programme. Therefore, both outputs, IO3 and
IO4, have to be regarded and explored together, like two sides of a coin.
The pedagogical frame will
help to develop a general understanding of the innovative approach while the
programme will help further users to find guidance and examples for practical
implementation.
Gerd Zimmer
Nuccia Cammara
Elisa Fulco
The country specific plans devised from these outputs are now available here: | 
