Projects

Due to the current spread of the coronavirus, measures have been taken that seemed almost unthinkable some time ago, such as restrictions on social life and the closing of borders in Europe and worldwide. Older people in particular are threatened by health problems and most often experience social isolation.

The current situation is blocking many things, but not our sense of community and our commitment to peaceful, solitary, and common coexistence in Europe.

Within the framework of the pilot project DANECT, people of all ages, but especially seniors, from the Danube region come together to connect despite the social isolation in times of Corona crisis. With the help of online video meetings, they share their interests, emotions, but also competencies. To participate, you need a PC or laptop with a camera or microphone, alternatively a tablet or a smartphone and an internet connection.

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Web: www.codanec.eu

Duration: October 2019 – September 2021

Preserving cultural heritage in art and culture is not just a matter of museums. Everyday culture has many facets and is connected to the people who live it.

The project is about finding out what kind of regional or national cultural treasures are for individual groups or individuals worth to preserve and give to younger people for the future, how they maintain the selected cultural assets, how they pass them on, what changes they have undergone in the course of history, what transformations are conceivable.

The CODANEC project aims to make visible the knowledge and skills of older people from the Danube countries who contribute to the preservation of material and immaterial cultural assets. At the same time, the project is intended to build a bridge to the younger generation, who will contribute their own ideas on the subject of cultural assets.

Through intergenerational cooperation and the exchange of groups from different Danube countries, the interaction with traditions, customs and values is to be shaped in a new way.

The use of new media should contribute to visualisation and at the same time strengthen the media literacy of the participants. A photo competition and mini-projects will be announced in order to activate many people from the Danube countries, from all age groups, ethnic groups and social classes. Qualification training in photography and filming of short video clips will be provided. The results will be presented at public events. Moreover, there will be international partnership meetings and opportunities for exchange, e.g. within the framework of the Danube Festival Ulm/Neu-Ulm.
A intergenerational and transnational conference on the topic, a photo exhibition and the Danube-Bridge-Breakfast will be organised.

The CODANEC project is supported by the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg.

                  

Web: www.bbe-toolbox.eu

The project’s objective is the development of an online Method-Toolbox (https://bbe-toolbox.eu/), which can be used in European education programs and actions in the context of adult and especially older adult education. Central task will be the development of criteria for the analysis of projects and methods with the focus on good practices in the areas of fostering critical thinking, European consciousness and solidarity and the reduction of prejudices.
The Method-Toolbox should help to improve and extend the supply of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of different target groups and individual learners.
Partner organizations from Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria are members of the educational networks Danube-Networkers, the international association DANET e.V., the FEDERUNI Network of Italian Universities of the Third Age and in Bulgaria the Platform Agora. All partners are experienced in national and international work with different target groups, especially older learners.

Collected will be methods of learning and transnational European cooperation, which will then be analyzed and adapted for work with the target groups of this project, especially older people, women, people with low education, and for learning settings (formal, non-formal, informal) in general adult education in Europe.
There will be four partner meetings and also cooperation via online tools. Taken into consideration will be various learning arrangements, target groups and differences in work conditions, culture, languages, as well as the educational and social framework of the respective countries and the applicability of the methods in the respective countries, focusing the cooperation of education providers from West, middle and Southeast Europe.

Please find further information on the project website: https://bbe-toolbox.eu/

The project is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Web: www.odda.eu

Background: The pilot project Open Doors for Danube Countries for All (ODDA) builds on experiences from the previous work and projects of the network Danube Networkers. Mutual knowledge and understanding amongst people in the Danube countries and positive climate between European neighbours is one of the prerequisites to the successful implementation of the Danube Strategy and its European ideas. The project should help to reduce prejudices and fears, to introduce and establish new role behaviours and forms of civic engagement. Experiences from previous cross-national projects have shown that many people are reserved when it comes to programs that include international meetings or travel to the West or the East. This applies especially to people with low education, but also to people, who have large knowledge about their own culture. This reserve comes from the lack of knowledge of languages – the other national languages or English, the lack of experience with the cultures of the Danube neighbours and the resulting fear of getting into difficult situations.
The reason for this is the long division of the West and the East Europe and the different social systems. The consequences of this division are especially marked in the transdanubian sphere. Cross-national meetings foster motivation to find out more about the ‘world’ of the other, lead to questions and experience of alternatives for dealing with new situations and foster the feeling for common European democratic values.

The reason for this is the long East-West divide in Europe and the different social systems.

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The European Learningpartnership „Personal TownTours“, financed by the European Commission, Programme Liefelong Learning, should lead to the development of cultural tours that can be offered to national as well as international guests of the participating organisations and other interested parties in the project partners‘ cities. Throughs cross-national exchanges, the projects‘ learners gain know-how in the linguistic, cultural and historical backgrounds of other project members‘ living environment. Activities: The members of the participating groups (seniors as well as younger adults) in the partners‘ locations prepare under self-selected thematic focus 3-5 personalized 60-90 minute Personal TownTours and present them to members of partner groups from other countries as well as to other local older and younger people and bring their town closer to them.

The mobile exhibition „Danube-Networkers on Tour” is an event meant to accompany a learning partnership “Danube- Stories” which is funded by the European Commission for a time period between August 2011 and July 2013 and in which learning groups from seven Danube countries (Germany; Austria; Hungary; Croatia; Romania; Bulgaria and Serbia as silent partner) are participating.

The exhibition opened during the European symposium of the ZAWiW “Active Ageing and intergenerational learning” within the framework of the International Danube Festival in Ulm/ Neu-Ulm in July 2012 and moves in the time period September 2012 to June 2013 along the Danube till Ruse. The exhibition is supposed to reach larger audience through public events at different locations along the river Danube (Ulm, Wilhering/Linz, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrad, Vukovar, Timisoara, and Ruse).

The project is financed by the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung.

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