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Take Off Take In in Catalonia
www.clase-barcelona.com
Spain - Learning Environment Mobility - responsibility & commitment - resilience - self reflection
Take Off Take in Catalonia
Project in programm “Integration through exchange”
Focus of the project
Art Workshop with professional artist and final exibition in Barcelona
Second month: Internship in companies
Situation (what is happening and where )
A group of 12 young participants working one month in an art studio in the harbour quarters of Barcelona, a quarter where many artists have their art studios. Goal with the visual art workshop was to show the participants art work at the end of the month in a public vernissage. The supervisor was a professional artist. The professional artist gave “direction” in terms of topics for the participants to interpret in their own way. At the end of the workshop an official vernissage was organised by the participants to show their art work to people they didn’t know. After the visual art workshop, the participants embarked on a 4 week internship in small businesses around Barcelona. The participant and organiser together sought out appropriate internships.
Important Aspects
+Professional artist as supervisor (no teachers)
+Clear expected result (preparation of an exibition for the public showing all the artwork the youngsters did during one month.)
+Public work (the final exibition of the artwork is a real event so the participants have to prepare the exibition (buy food and drinks, manage money, make flyers etc and make publicity to invite people) .
+Support from a professional team (artist, social worker who gives pedagocial support, help from language school staff solving lange problems)
+Group dynamics/real life social setting (do participants help each other or not, is there a competion between them, who can do what, who is great and who is not)
+Guidance during the stay by social worker at home and in Barcelona through the IdA Project
+Give responsibility; participant is an offical crew member, responsible for his/her task within the project.
Softskills
1. Responsibility & commitment
2. Resilience
3. Self reflection
Learning Principles
Learning-by-doing
Free to do art work only with the guidance by a professional artist who gives direction, but does not say what to do.
FREE YOUR MIND AND MAKE ART WITHOUT THINKING TOO MUCH
Ability to listen and take instructions and turn these into reliable actions to prepare art work for a real exhibition.
Understanding of important parameters in the project like punctuality, responsibility, to be open minded to people they don‘t know in order to be able to to ask for help in all kinds of situations abroad, not only in the visual art workshop
Support from professionals
Ability to listen and take instructions and turn these into reliable actions to prepare art work for a real exhibition.
Participants will realize their own strengths and weaknesses by feedback from artist, social worker and also the other participants
Support of the artist allows participants to improve their art skills benefiting from the know-how and advice from the artist.
Peer-to-peer learning
Learning from each other by living together in shared flats during 2 months which was a new situation for many of them.
Participants will realize their own strengths and weaknesses by feedback from artist, social worker and also the other participants
The team of 12 people is a social setting where social soft skills and socializing are trained naturally. IdA-social pedagogues are balancing and putting a perspective to actions at work, reflection.
“Simple“ every day tasks are already a learning field for participants (who is doing the dishes who is not, what do we eat for dinner, who is cooking, who ate all the food in the fridge, who is not cleaning the bathroom etc..) living together and doing activities together offers many opportunities of learning to handle conflict managament, negotiate, stand up for oneself, compromise - a good level of communication needed for a constructive and positive solution.
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https://www.sjusam.se
Sweden - Learning Environment
SPACE
Powered by 7 municipalities, Sjuhärad
Focus of the project SPACE (former KRUT)
Focus: Strengthening of soft skills
Strengthening of soft skills in order for an individual to return to work and studies. Internship abroad with preparation and reintegration.
Situation
SPACE (former KRUT) "över gränserna" gathers all involved authorities plus an extensive individual and group support for the participant - a holistic approach for each individual. The project helped to increase the participants' (a) health (b) ability to activate themselves (c) Work training helped participants back to the job market.
Participants receives coaching / pedagogic support while participating in active health (walking together in a group once a week), on-the-job-training (before travelling abroad) and during internship abroad as well as with placements/further steps after home coming.
Important Aspects
+All involved authorities and the project are jointly involved in making sure the participant receives all support needed in order to go back to the job market.
+Expected result; participant should should go back to studies or work after project, or at least be closer to the job market or studies
+Group coaching is particularly successful. Participants (1)become confident in being in a social context, it (2)creates trust and the participants get to (3)meet others in the same situation.
+Active health (together in a group, see benefits above)
+Across boarders (3 weeks internship abroad)
+Vintage shop (on the job training)
+Work support function (coach joins participant to work and supports)
+Guidance from social worker/coach throughout the Project
Softskills
Confidence, trust, learn tools to handle and cope within a social context
learn to ask questions, show interest, be active and take responsibility
Ability to listen and take instructions and turn these into reliable actions.
Learning Principles
Peer-to-peer learning
Peer-to-peer learning interaction and cooperation with people from different backgrounds and ages creates security and confidence in social settings, enhances trust and a sense of togetherness as all participants are in the same boat (active health, across boarders)
During the project period (ca 6 months intensivly, 3 weeks abroad is possible, it is possible to stay longer within the framework of the project - which can also be a danger in terms of not moving on in life) The project is or becomes a platform, a place to be and a social context for some individuals.
Collective training combined with personalised support
In addition to collective sessions, there are also individual support, counselling and coachings every week.
By participating in professional individual and group coachings/ support every week, the participant becomes more and more at ease with a social context and develops social skills in this interaction, enabling the individual to move on to the next phase.
Learning-by-doing
Before the mobility, the participants accomplish an internship at home; on-the-job- training with or without a joining coach. Across boarders (mobility abroad like IdA) During a 3 week period the participants are challenged to be self sufficient abroad and confident enough to accomplish an internship. The time abroad helps the participant to reflect upon him/herself in a new framework and to see the situation at home in a different light - by realising it is possible to act and change: re-activation. Due to the short period of time the internship might be more of a learning to do what needs to be done rather than accomplish a project of ones own.
On-the-job-training is a social setting where social soft skills are trained naturally in the work environment social pedagogues are balancing and putting a perspective to actions and situations at work. During the job-training the participant can Look and learn / imitate behavour and execution of tasks at work. participant can learn to ask questions, show interest, be active and take responsibility.
Ability to listen and take instructions and turn these into reliable actions. Understanding of important parameters at work (motivation of employer, paying customer and to react accordingly). Participants will realise their own strenghts and weaknesses by feedback from employer and colleagues.
Greta G.
https://www.coordinationeurope.org
Sweden - Learning Environment Greta G. - Resilience - Responsibility & Commitment - Reflection - Communication
IdA project
Learning Environment Greta G.
Focus of the project
1. Media Workshop in a professional media company, becoming an official team member of the crew
2. Perform the official model contest Greta G. event in 6 Swedish cities
Situation
Becoming official team members in the Greta G. crew. First step was a media workshop in order to learn cameras, sound, pictures, editing and all aspects of the event, from casting models to building the cat walk, styling of models, catering & drinks to delivering a smashing event for paying companies, the city council and the audience/ town people.
Important Aspects
- Professional media crew (no teachers)
The participants are supported by a professional team w/ supervisor
- Clear expected result
Setting up and delivering a successful model event in several cities, film and take pictures of this event, build up cat walk, backstage set up, styling workshop, café, audience spots etc.
- Public work/ project
It is a real event supported by the city council and the business men in town - who show their collections and do PR for their shops via the model show
- Group dynamics/ real life social setting
Do participants help each other or not, do they compete against each other or not, who can do what, who is great and who is not
- Guidance social worker through IdA Project
- Receive real responsibility
participant is an official crew member responsible for his/her task within the project
Softskills
Resilience
Responsibility & Commitment
Reflection
Communication
Learning Principles
Training-on-the-job
Look and learn from “role model” (media professional) “copy cat”
Look and learn from media professionals, practice to become good in the respective task, ask questions, show interest, take action, take responsibility for the actions just-do-it (pretend to be professional)
Learning-by-doing
Receive instructions from role model/ professional, training independently and in the group, optimizations under auspices of professional
Ability to listen and take instructions and turn these into reliable actions. Understanding of important parameters in the project (motivation of employer, paying customer, municipality, audience - and to react accordingly)
Support from professionals
Professional support allows participants to move on to the next level by benefiting from the know-how and advice from the professional and his/her contacts
Peer-to-peer learning
Interaction and cooperation with people from different backgrounds and ages
The team of ca. ten people is a social setting where soical soft skills and socializing are trained naturally. IdA-social pedagogues are balancing and putting a perspective to actions at work and at “home”.
