HOBBY AS AN INTEGRATING FACTOR IN EUROPEAN SOCIETY: April 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

Thursday, 21 April 2011

Painting easter Eggs with wax , an ancient Romanian hobby

Wednesday 20 April Association for Science Culture , Youth and Social Integration organized an workshop for learning decoration of Easter eggs with wax .

The workshop took place in the parish house with the support of the priest Babii George Octavian .

At the workshop participated 14 adults and their children .

Objectives :

-to remember the beautiful Moldavian Easter Traditions

-to enhance the family learning methods that Association ASCETIS is using for non-formal adult education

-to integrate adults from rural areas in the association activity and in European Society