CREATIVE FERTILIZATION


Being creative means to be conscious of our needs and capabilities and to be able to express ourselves, our skills, our wishes, having an active role in our social context and in our life.

Creative Fertilization arises from ARCI’s fundamental principles: the promotion of associations and the right to culture, in all its forms and languages, as a factor of social cohesion, an instrument of civil engagement, to promote peace and citizenship rights, to fight against all forms of exclusion and discrimination. According to these principles “Creative fertilization” suggests a view on education (understood in a non-formal way) as basic way to democracy, relying on everybody’s free participation and expression.

The project's objective is to promote creativity as a key factor for the development of personal, social and even professional skills and the well-being of all individuals of the civil society. As a vehicle of self-expression and recognition of personal skills, creativity is an invaluable instrument to increase self-respect and even prevent youth unrest and social marginalization.

Creative fertilization wants different people, cultures and approaches to talk together for the research of good strategies able to develop an education thought as essential democratic moment based on everybody's freedom of participation and expression.

This blog wants to be a creative platform to exchange experiences, good practices, ideas and reflections about creativity's promotion.

Join us and let's try to find together more and more ways of being creative!!!!!


THE PROJECT

mercoledì 18 novembre 2009


WELCOME TO THE CREATIVE FERTILIZATION'S BLOG!


this blog is thought as an European operative platform
where sharing materials, ideas and best practices
about non formal education and creativity's promotion

..Join us!

mercoledì 11 novembre 2009

Seminar’s Agenda

30/11/2009
h 14:00 – 15:00 Participant's arrival – welcome
h 15:00 – 16:00 Worming games – participant's presentation
h 16:00 – 17:00 Presentation of the EUROPE FOR CITIZENS’ programme objectives
h 17:00 Coffee break
h 18:00 - 20:00 ASS.ATOPOS “Art and street performances as a tool to sensitize active citizenship”
h 20:00 Dinner
h 21:00 Welcoming party

01/12/2009
h 8:45 - 9:30 Breakfast
h 9:30 – 10:30 ARCI: Right to culture and creativity's promotion.
h 10:30 – 11:30 KALAMARIS YOUTH ORGANISATION: Pocolo Nomad, a tool for touching youth
h 11:30 Coffee break
h 12:00 – 13:30 CLUBE AMARENSE art and street arts as a tool to improve youth creativity and self expression
h 13:30 Lunch 
h 15:30 - 16:30 YETOOPONESE : Youth's Permanent Education through Non formal education's activities
h 16:30 – 18:30 Peer education: a tool to invest young people with responsability
h 18:30 Coffee break
h 19:00 - 20:00 Discussion and feedback about tools and activities presented during the day
h 20:00 Dinner

02/12/2009>
h 9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
h 10:00 - 13:00 C.N.G.E.I. Scouts: Learning by doing< h 13:00 Lunch time h 15:00 - 17:00 AMICI DI PIABETA’: Find your own clown and empower your creativity
h 17:00 Coffee break
h 17:30 - 18:30 JANOON KonsuMensch - how to sensitize youngsters to globalisation
h 18:30 Feedback about daily actions
h 20:00 Dinner

03/12/09
h 9:00 Breakfast
h 10:00 – 13:00 Daniele Belluschi (ARCI professional trainer): How to build an interactive training
h 13:00 Lunch
h 14:30 – 16:30 “intercultural creativity”: Non formal education’s materials presentation and discussion
h 16:30 – 20:00 working groups: Participants will build two little workshops aiming to improve creativity.
h 20:00 Dinner

04/12/09
h 8:30 Breakfast
h 9:00 – 11:00 Workshops: Participants will show workshops created during the working groups.
h 11:00 – 13:00 Evaluation and proposals for a future cooperation
h 13:00 Lunch
h 14:00 Departure.

lunedì 9 novembre 2009

Creative fertilization

The main objective of the project “creative-fertilization” is to promote a confrontation and an exchange among different European subjects (associations and institutions) engaged in the carrying out of ways, activities and instruments able to promote the development of an active citizenship, through informal learning and non-formal education.

The project foresaw the organization of a workshop in Ancona, during which some local experts and some facilitators from the partner associations introduced their methods of intervention and more significant activities, carried out in different socio-cultural settings, with the joint goal of involving citizens, especially young people, turning them into creative and active actors of their own social background. Art, music, theatre, experiences of voluntary service (such as ESV or other local experiences), and the several activities of peer learning are instruments and languages able to promote a non-selective education, based on inclusion, the empowerment of personal skills, free expression and participation, all basic principles for the building of an active citizenship.

Within the European year for creativity and innovation we aim at promoting the creative element as fundamental instrument for the strengthening of the activities carried out by the civil society. By pointing out the importance of cross-fertilization, therefore, we want to promote an exchange and a confrontation which can strengthen and provide with new instruments the creative potential of individuals, allowing the creation of European common good practices and strategies for the promotion of active citizenship.

The project arises from ARCI’s fundamental principles: the promotion of associations and the right to culture, in all its forms and languages, as a factor of social cohesion, an instrument of civil engagement, to promote peace and citizenship rights, to fight against all forms of exclusion and discrimination. According to these principles “Creative fertilization”suggests a view on education (understood in a non-formal way) as basic way to democracy, relying on everybody’s free participation and expression. Moreover the project aims at bringing together different cultures and fostering their dialogue as well as different tools to promote an active citizenship.

Creativity is the thread of this project as an element allowing to strengthen and express one’s own cultural identity, to create an active involvement within the social background, and thus a sense of belonging to it, and finally to develop an intercultural confrontation based on mutual acknowledgement and respect. Creativity, as a means of self-expression and recognition of one’s own skills, is a worthy instrument to increase self-esteem, and therefore to prevent young people’s discomfort and social exclusion. This “preventive” aspect has been recognized by the World Health Organization, which in 1992 has put creativity among the fundamental “life skills” officially recognized.

Experiences as voluntary service, artistic expression, peer education and associations forming in general, share this democratic-creative participation, the use of values (such as opening one’s mind to others) and universal languages (such as music and art in general), all instruments fostering unity and dialogue essential to the building of a European future and identity.

The seminar realized consisted on creative workshops, discussions (exchanging ideas with facilitators and experts), interactive activities, (in which different skills and strategies was used). Then this internet blog was created, as a platform to exchange and confront good practices, which is foreseen to include an increasing number of European associations and institutions over time.

The other important objective of the project is that of starting a dialogue on these themes within the school background, promoting the knowledge and an increasing acknowledgement of the various instruments and ways you can use in non-formal education.

The interaction with teachers seems to us essential to reinforce creativity’s educative value, as an instrument of personal expression and basic means to acknowledge one’s own cultural background and that of the others too.