HOBBY AS AN INTEGRATING FACTOR IN EUROPEAN SOCIETY: Local workshop in Cyprus

The official web-site of the project HAIFES .

HAIFES project is a Grundtvig Partnership for Learning financed by European Union .

HAIFES is the acronym title of the project :Hobby As an Integrating Factor for European Society

The aims of the project:

- getting know new kind of hobby and European citizens interests

- identifying and learning new methods in informal education of adults

- developing educational, interpersonal and social competences

- motivating learners to active participation in the social life, through artistic workshops, through hobby presentation , through educational meetings and cultural events

Activities:

- participation in different kind of artistic workshops

- presentation of various kind of the hobby by adult learners

- participation in hobby exhibitions, festivities, cultural events

- organizing educational visits to artistic studios in the aim to know handicraft objects

- organizing meetings with folk artistic creators

- organizing visits to museums, palaces, castles to know hobby from different centuries

Results :

- artistic handicraft objects

- exhibitions

- meetings with artists

- Power Points presentations about hobby

- the blog of the project, E –portfolio, reports, film, photos

Monday 20 June 2011

Local workshop in Cyprus

14^th of May 2011 ShipCon Limassol Ltd. conducted a local workshop during which a group of adult learners had a chance to develop their creativity while they decorated pebbles found on the beach.

The learners used oil pastels and dough to create beautiful colorful stones.

The workshop was carried out outdoors so the nature was an important source of inspiration and the participants invented very original designs.

As the learners were adults of five different nationalities, they also had a chance to improve their skill in communication in English language and interpersonal, intercultural skills.