ERASMUS+ K.A 210 ADU, Small-scale partnerships in adult education - Code: 2021-2-EL01-KA210-ADU-000050334
The OEMCO Project was aimed at promoting the exchange and sharing at European level of good practices for outdoor education for museums and public/private cultural organizations. The general objective of the project was to bring adults closer to cultural heritage and to raise their awareness of the active role that outdoor activities can have in enhancing it.
Specifically, the project intended to develop an Handbook containing various outdoor education activities shared and tested by all three partners.
Outdoor education includes all educational activities, even if not strictly curricular, which are carried out outdoors by schools and educational organizations of various types. Being together in the open air increases the social skills of children, teenagers and adults who, placed in a context different from the traditional learning, are stimulated and motivated to relate to themselves and to others in a different way. Furthermore, some activities raise awareness of the issues of respect for the environment, self-perception in the world and body and mind health and the importance, especially for OEMCO, of cultural heritage as an element of continuous growth for all ages. This type of activity is inspired by scouting, in fact scouts by their nature carry out outdoor activities with the aim of increasing their socialization skills in a context of mutual respect, care, interaction and attention to the surrounding environment.
This method of approach has been developed through key steps of the project, consisting of training activities with moments of sharing and exchanging good practices in the field of outdoor education. All these practices have been collected and included in the final Handbook which made available to all those who wish to use it as an OER both in Italian and in English as vehicular
The Handbook consists of a first theoretical part which will allow those who read it to better understand what outdoor education is and a second part where it is possible to see how it is put into practice, through the collection of case studies for each country partners, with various proposals for activities to be carried out in the field.
The OEMCO project also encouraged dialogue and meetings between participants in the project activities, strengthening the synergies between educational and cultural institutions, not only at the local level, but also transnationally and supporting the professional exchange between teachers, museum educators and sectoral operators from the different countries involved.
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THE PARTNERSHIP
Applicant
EKEDISY, National Centre for Research and Preservation of School Material – Athens, Greece
European Partners
Centro Machiavelli Srl - Florence Italy
Espacio Rojo – Madrid, Spain
