The year 2009 will be the international year of creativity, in this way, our project InCreaSe is totally relevant, thanks to its main quality: Putting forward creativity for the 55-year-olds and older.

The continuing education and the creativity. Indeed, the meeting between the european partners are organized to develep cultural and creativity projects for the elders.

 

InCreaSe is a travelling training academy for cultural learning and participation of older people in Europe. During the two-year partnership the expert partners will meet in each others’ countries to exchange models of good practice in different specialisms. These involve different ethnic groups and generations, ‘keywork’ approaches, volunteering for culture, theatre and media work. The partners will reflect and evaluate the experiences of the workshops and jointly develop a methodology for professional training for working with seniors. The over-all aim is to develop training modules for implementation at a yearly “European Summer School”.

The project is co-ordinated by the European Centre for Arts Education and Culture in Later Life (Kubia) in Remscheid. Partners are KulturKontakt Austria (Vienna, Austria), Entr’ages asbl (Brussels, Belgium), Bundesakademie für kulturelle Bildung Wolfenbüttel, BAGSO and JFC Medienzentrum Köln (all Germany), E-Quality Foundation (Budapest, Hungary), Stichting Euro+Songfestival (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Associação VIDA – Valorização Intergeracional e Desenvolvimento Activo (Porto, Portugal), Fundecyt - Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y Tecnología en Extremadura (Badajoz) and Fundación Academia Europea de Yuste (both Spain), Seniors Studies Institute of the Strathclyde University (Glasgow, UK).