HOBBY AS AN INTEGRATING FACTOR IN EUROPEAN SOCIETY: Hobbies and Human Rights in an Workshop Organized by ASCETIS Piatra-Neamt Romania

The official web-site of the project HAIFES .

HAIFES project is a Grundtvig Partnership for Learning financed by European Union .

HAIFES is the acronym title of the project :Hobby As an Integrating Factor for European Society

The aims of the project:

- getting know new kind of hobby and European citizens interests

- identifying and learning new methods in informal education of adults

- developing educational, interpersonal and social competences

- motivating learners to active participation in the social life, through artistic workshops, through hobby presentation , through educational meetings and cultural events

Activities:

- participation in different kind of artistic workshops

- presentation of various kind of the hobby by adult learners

- participation in hobby exhibitions, festivities, cultural events

- organizing educational visits to artistic studios in the aim to know handicraft objects

- organizing meetings with folk artistic creators

- organizing visits to museums, palaces, castles to know hobby from different centuries

Results :

- artistic handicraft objects

- exhibitions

- meetings with artists

- Power Points presentations about hobby

- the blog of the project, E –portfolio, reports, film, photos

Saturday, 11 December 2010

Hobbies and Human Rights in an Workshop Organized by ASCETIS Piatra-Neamt Romania

The Association for Science , Culture , Ecology , Youth and Social Integration organized yesterday ,the 10th of December an workshop dedicated to The International Day of Human Rights .

The title of the workshop was ,,Music and Communication" and the discussions were around the theme ,,Hobbies and Human Rights "

At the workshop participated 50 students from ,,Gheorghe Cartianu" Technical College and 10 teachers .

The students and the teachers enjoyed the activity and found inspiration for new hobbies .

We also had a special guest from Japan , mr. USHI YAMA SUSUMU , Japanese, rock musician, ,,pilgrim, hitchhiker" how he is calling himself .

Ushi traveled in 64 countries with the help of the people he met and he still wants to go forward to accomplish his dream that is to visit and sing all over the world .
Singing and traveling are hobbies for him .

We discovered together that the human most important values are protected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights .

"Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

,,Article 27.
Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author."

Practicing hobbies is a human right .

''Article 26.
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace."