HOBBY AS AN INTEGRATING FACTOR IN EUROPEAN SOCIETY: 2011

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 10 December 2011

NEW JEWELERY WORKSHOP IN POLAND

On 1 December 2011 seniors from Poland activating in Association VESUVIO participated in a workshop dedicated to handmade jewelery.

The aim was to show hobby one of our senior and spread didactic and practical experience to others including seniors from collaborating countries.

Seniors learned how to select, complete and join all elements to produce necklaces and bracelets. They used artificial pearls, beads and other accessories.

The final products were great and brought seniors a lot of joy and personal fulfillment. All of them developed artistic creativity and expressed satisfaction of being together and socializing together. .

The final self-made products were a gift for them in coming Santa Clause Day

Friday 7 October 2011

Fourth project meeting Limassol, August/September 2011

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1. Objectives

To help individuals to gain better understanding of what brings joy and personal fulfilment to their lives; to help participants to discover and develop their hobby;
To get to know and understand better the culture and traditions of Cyprus
To discuss and present project achievements up to date (local and international)
To help the participants to develop their interests and creativity through various practical workshops
To evaluate different aspects of the meeting
To help the participants develop computer literacy and ICT skills (website, blog, email),
To exchange experiences regarding new methods and approaches in adult education
To analyse the hobbies impact on different target groups
To expand the “Intercultural space: I watch, learn and teach”; Travelling exhibition (consisting of the handicraft made by the learners of each country)
To enable the learners to meet and make friends with people from different countries and with a different cultural background