“Tell your story: self-expression as approach in media literacy” was Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships project for five partners from Poland, Malta, Estonia, France and Italy. The aims of the project were to develop during 22 months initiatives addressing spheres of adult education and exchanges of experience and best practices in storytelling. By this partners contributed to the objectives of the Erasmus+ Programme and enhanced the professional development of educators working in the field of adult education. For the purpose to fulfilling these objectives, the project team sustained the creation of flexible learning pathways in line with learners' needs. Partners also reinforced network, increased capacity to operate at transnational level, shared ideas, best practices and methods. Project coordinator was Fundacja CREATOR from Poland. General objectives were the promotion of adult education and cooperation between partners, better recognition of non-formal education. The specific objectives supported exchanges of practices, improvement of the level of competences and skills of educators and adult learners. Project participants acquired various abilities applicable to a wide variety of issues. They were exposed to technology tools that were embedded in purposeful learning, allowing them to transfer knowledge from one tool to another. Adult educators improved their competences in planing and running own workshops in storytelling. Project supported cooperation between organisations working in the field of adult education. This Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project aims were: - to collect existing best practices in Europe and in the world in storytelling; - to test and edit existing and new tools in adult education during project training courses and workshops; - to multiply education tools during the local activities in partners countries; - to train on local level adult learners, to give them opportunity to be heard, attractive and more visible in local community and on labour market. The storytelling approach in education for adults was targeted through non-formal learning methods, learning by doing, which aim at enhancing experiences and competences of staff members of partners organisations, adult learners and other stakeholders. More than 100 staff members and adult learners from partners countries were directly involved in the project and more than 1000 indirectly during dissemination activities. Four international meetings in Poland, France, Estonia and Italy and one training course in Malta in combination with local activities were complementary for exchange of best practices and learning from each other. Project fostered intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding and particularly during dissemination activities when partners organised project presentations and video CVs and stories they created during the project. Partners disseminated at the highest possible level the knowledge acquired from this project in their organisations and countries, on regional, European and international levels. One of the main results of this project were intangible. The knowledge, skills, attitudes were measured by self-assessment mechanisms, interviews and questionnaires. Self-assessment forms were used before and after the trainings on international and local levels for staff members and adult learners. They helped to evaluate achievements and generated recommendations for future improvements of project activities. This information was shared with all partners. Questionnaires were used to evaluate project activities and the whole project. Impact on the target groups were seen on new competences which they gained after the implemented project activities by using a specific methodology of storytelling. Project results can be used and exploited in the longer-term, especially resources in adult education and storytelling, that are available in the Internet. Because they are e-products, they will be constantly added with new materials from project partner organisations and also from other institutions. Project was sustainable also because of strong network: partners together with few other organisations plan to apply with new Erasmus+ project in 2020.

"""Ethno-design in fashion - exchange of good practices in vocational training"" was Erasmus+ Programme strategic partnership project of eight partners' organisations from Poland, Spain, Estonia, Greece, Italy, France and Portugal. The primary goal was to develop and reinforce networks, increased our capacity to operate at transnational level, shared and confronted our ideas, practices and methods. It was designed to share experiences and best practices in vocational training and to create innovative methods through training courses and worked on project results based on European cooperation, creation and production innovative products in fashion design. Target groups were staff members and learners from partners' organisations (unemployed at any age, women 50+, low-educated people, VET students, migrants, national minorities). The specific objectives were: 1) to develop the various ethnographic elements of traditional dresses, fashion accessories, handbags of each European culture and transfer to modern clothes; 2) to learn traditional folk ornaments techniques in own and other European countries; 3) to learn new types of ornaments, new techniques, materials, methods and skills from partners; 4) to create own samples of modern clothes, jewellery, handbags with folk motives using personal and experts' competences and share them with partners; 5) to develop strategic partnership and intercultural dialogue between project partners; 6) to support professional education for staff members and learners from partners' organisations; 7) to strengthen dignity of own culture and European cultures, the dignity to be European citizen; 8) to motivate learners and staff members to learn foreign languages and improve ICT skills. At the end of the project participants aquired skills and practical experience in order to make modern clothes with folk motives as a means of self-expression for galleries and shops; they improved ICT skills and communication skills in English language; they became more aware about own national culture and other European cultures. Partners established contacts with work world to help learners to find jobs and started to cooperate with locals galleries and workshops. There were trainings for staff, workshops, theoretical seminars about ethno-design and about intercultural dialogue locally for learners. There were two short-term jont staff training courses (in Greece and Spain ) for staff members and 4 international project meetings (in Poland, France, Italy and Portugal) during the project. Partners organised dissemination activities on local level to make project's impact more sustainable. Partners applied the best methods in fashion design training and in non-formal education in own countries and in Europe. The main methods was learning by doing, learning together, with each other and by each other. Apart managemet issues, to 4 project meetings were added workshops in ethno-design in fashion to achive project golas and exchange good practice. The main results were pedagogical and methodical learning materials in E-Brochure and materials for dissemination in own and other organisations, in local communities, on the national, European and international levels. There were also Power-Point Presentations, photo-exhibitions and videos about activities and best practices from every partner organisation. The impact of the project has be seen on project participants who gained new competencies and became able to compete on the labour market with professionals. Partners' organisations created strong partnership that is continued after the project end. The potential long term benefits have be seen as improvement of the quality of vocational education and training in the partners' organisations. It will emerge as improvement of the situation on the labour market when learners will share own experience and newly gained skills with future learners on professional level and start to work as fashion designers."