News and Output
The final outputs of the project iRemember are published on the website. The outputs are related to all the phases of the project and shows the methodology and the results obtained in order to let school, association etc to adopt and adapt the iRemember methodology.
The desk analysis examined the National contexts for the development of useful data and information about transitions and conflicts in the National territories of the project's Partners. The research focused on conflict and transition topics with historical roots and with a significant impact on the present by a social, cultural or economic point of view.
The "iRemember methodology" provides teachers and trainers (as tutors) a non-formal and alternative teaching/learning of contemporary history. It allows to implement intergenerational laboratories involving senior citizens and young people as main actors. The "iRemember Methodology" is available in 6 languages (English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Armenian, Romanian)
The "Online Training for Students" is hosted in the Moodle platform, it is a useful course to acquire competences to actively participate in the intergenerational laboratories. The units are freely downloadable in 6 languages (Portuguese, Italian, English, Spanish, Armenian, Romanian) and through Moodle it can be used for blended learning, distance education and other e-learning projects in schools and learning paths managed by educational organizations.
The "Online Training for Students" is Open Educational Resource (OER) allowing young students to acquire the knowledge competences and skills in order to actively participate in the Laboratories of Memories (intergenerational laboratories).The "Online Training for Students" is available in 6 languages (English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Armenian, Romanian).
“Standards for virtualization” are guidelines for the creation and electronic record management.
It is divided in 12 units and it highlights the correct way for the virtualization and the meta-dating of materials ready to be uploaded in the platform “The Land”.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t3s0vpmxy0ydk37/Iremember.zip?dl=0
"The Land" is an online platform. It is a virtual map where stories, events, documents and materials (such as images, photos, texts, links, audio files) can be collected and geo-localized throughout the map. The platform is easily accessible from any electronic device (personal computer, smartphone, tablet). The map collects the stories and materials developed during the "Laboratories of Memory".
http://www.youblisher.com/p/1489888-The-Land/
The web-documentaries show the activities realized and the participants experiences during the Laboratories of Memory implementation in each Country involved (Italy, Northern Ireland, Armenia, Romania, Spain and Portugal).
Link:
E6 – Multiplier Event in Rome
Organization: Ce.S.F.Or. and Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza.
Date: 17th June 2016
Location: I.P.S.S.E.O.A. M.G. Apicio, Anzio, Roma, Italia
On 17th June 2016 Ce.S.F.Or. Centro Studi Formazione Orientamento in collaboration with the project partner Digilab (Università Sapienza di Roma) realized the Multiplier Event (E6) in order to disseminate and exploit all the Intellectual Outputs of the project: the three parts of the final Methodology and the Land Platform.
The event was held in the I.P.S. Marco Gavio Apicio in Anzio.
The venue has been selected as it is the same place where the Laboratory of Memories took place. The objective was to give back to the local community an added value provided by the confrontation with a wider reality. This dissemination event offered the finished products to the local communities and to the final users, in a dialectic movement which provided the communities itself a renewed awareness of its growing possibilities. Youngsters, adults and elderly are finally able to use the Land platform, exploring the virtual spaces and learning from the collective work of the partnership their stories and the conflicts of other territories in the World.
The conference started at 10 a.m. with an opening speech of Prof. Maurizio Cesari - Apicio principle -highlighting the great opportunity the young students on being involved in this European project as well as the teachers to improve the knowledge of digital technics the school will be exploiting during the next years as learning tool.
Just after, Ernesto Russo - Ce.S.F.Or. President - presented the overall project objectives, products, activities and the target groups reached. A short presentation of the Partners has been performed in order to showcase the European state of art in the learning and educational field.
Suzana Zlatkovic, trainer of the laboratory of memory, presented her experience as attender of the Joint Staff Training Event (C1) for the realization of the “Training path for tutors and teachers” (O2) emphasizing the role of art and storytelling as important tool for knowledge and teaching.
Prof. Emilia De Santis talked about her experience as teacher involved in many phases of the project. She assisted the students during the online training for students (O3) and took part actively in the Laboratory of Memory implementation. Isabella provided the proper juxtaposing presenting the same project phases from the students’ side.
In the end, Luca Reitano from Digilab presented “The Land” platform already implemented with the materials uploaded by the partnership.
After a brief time dedicated to Q&A activity, the web-documentary realized by Ce.S.F.Or. has been screened in the auditorium of the school as final activity of the day.
The event has been attended by Professors, students and staff of the Marco Gavio Apicio, PhD students coming from Sapienza and people representing different organizations of the educational environment:
Moreover the event was attended by foreign participants: three members of the Croatian Republic Embassy and two members of Ebi and Ph No from Austria.
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E5 – Multiplier Event in Yerevan
Organization: Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
Date: 22nd July 2016
Location: Yerevan, Armenia
On 22nd of July, 2016 in Yerevan Adult Education and Lifelong Learning Association in cooperation with the Young Historians Association organized the multiplier event planned by the Erasmus+ Strategic partnership Project, called iRemember.
The aim of the event was to present the Project itself and intellectual outputs of it to the public and all interested sides in Armenia. It were 17 participants registered, most of them- students and teachers of history in different schools and universities of Armenia. Officials from the Ministry of Education and Science (LLL division and VET division) and from the National Center of Educational Technologies were presenting there. Two freelance Educational Experts from Armenian Diaspora (USA) were participated also.
Many of those who was really interested in participation on the Event were out of City because of summer holydays season.
Dr. Arevik Sargsyan presented the Project, its goals, intellectual outputs and phases already developed by the international consortium of partners from 6 countries. Participants of the event were acknowledged with Project web site, FB page, Moodle platform, Youtube channel etc. The final draft version of web-documentary video was shown on the screen for explain the path of activities done.
In her second presentation the President of AELLL described in details the Methodology of Laboratories of Memories.
The next speaker: Dr. Lilit Mkrtchyan- the President of Young Historians Association told about activities done by students and teachers-members of the Association during the last two months in cooperation with the AELLL. She mentioned online training for students, workshops and discussions during the Laboratory of Memory.
As it was planned in the agenda, the final draft version of the final film, designed as a result of Laboratories of Memories in Armenia, called “But I was born”, was presented on the screen.
20 persons were awarded by certificates for their participation in Laboratory of Memory activities.
In the end part of the Event more than 5 speakers from the auditorium both active participants of Laboratories and invitees present their impressions and ideas about the Methodology and possibility of its implementation in learning process.
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E4 – Multiplier Event in Madrid
Organization: CONFEDERACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE CENTROS DE ENSEÑANZA
Date: 3rd March 2016
Location: IFEMA. Aula. Semana de la Educación. Sala de Ponencias, Madrid, Spain
The Multiplier Event has been implemented as part of Education Week, Feria de Madrid organises AULA, the Educational Opportunities Exhibition in order to disseminate and exploit the final Methodology, the training path for tutors and teachers, the online training for students.
Students have the chance to attend the event with their families and centres in order to receive advice from the educational sector concerning the important choice that faces them and which will enable their best transition into the job market.
More than 130,000 visitors attend the event to learn about the latest offers in university studies, languages, studies abroad, volunteer work, higher education, young entrepreneurs and student services.
To achieve this, the following areas have been created:
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An important space for educational advice, dealing with the growing need for personalised and professional advice.
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“Classroom Experiences”: free activities with high educational content and offering participation, yet another incentive to visit.
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Spaces for Training and Information.
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Workshops for students, advisers, parents and educational management
Marian de Villanueva presented iRemember Project, using a Power Point presentation followed by a workshop with students and teachers (intergenerational)
Selina Martin implemented the activity.
All the participants, mainly teachers and students, were very interested in the project iRemember, they thought it was an incredible tool, a creative way to change their way to teach history and literacy, a new method that can easily be combined with the usual way of teaching, to connect with the youngest and solve the conflicts.
It can be considered successful because of the number of participants and their feedback, also for the interest shown from them once the conference was over.
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E3 – Multiplier Event in Vidigueira
Organization: Centro de Estudos e Formação Aquiles Estaço, Lda
Date: 23rd June 2016
Location: Professional School Fialho de Almeida, Vidigueira, Portugal
Intellectual Outputs Covered: O1, O2, O3
On June, 23rd, the Professional School Fialho de Almeida, Vidigueira, CEFAE, Lda., publicly presented the European project "iRemember" developed under the ERASMUS + Strategic Partnership, an EU program, in Multifaceted Center for New Technologies in Vidigueira in order to disseminate and exploit three Intellectual Outputs of the project: the final Methodology, the training path for tutors and teachers, the online training for students.
This initiative was attended by the following participants:
- Mr. Luís Pestana, Councilman of Education, who congratulated the school for participating in European projects and the development of activities that allow to address relevant issues in our region and engage different audiences, because this project managed to bring together the students and the community of EPFA different parishes of the Vidigueira municipality (less younger people);
- Chairman of the Steering Council of EPFA, Dr. Estevão Pereira, who pointed the importance of this project in EPFA, sharing experiences that provided between European partners (CEFAE / EPFA of Vidigueira, Portugal, Italy, two partner organizations, the CESFOR and University of Studies of Rome, La Sapienza, Rome, Romania - Associata EUROED, Bucharest, Northern Ireland - the North West Play Resource Centre, Londonderry, Armenia - Adult Education and Long Life Learning, Yerevan, and Spain – Spanish Confederation of Teaching Centres, Madrid) and among teachers, non-teaching staff, EPFA students and county's population, as well as the added value created in terms of education and training;
- Elisabete Rosa, teacher and coordinator of iRemember project, which explained the choice of theme (in Portugal, and more precisely in the Vidigueira municipality, where EPFA / CEFAE wants to create a Memories Lab, a memorial on the economic sector, predominant in Baixo Alentejo. - Agriculture, with its impact on historical, social and cultural level. By putting senior and youth in contact, EPFA / CEFAE made a comparative study on agriculture before 1974, dictatorial period with Salazar and after 1974 when Portugal became a democracy and the effects of its entry into the European Union in 1986, up to today. In this sense, the partner countries have created a virtual platform through which EPFA / CEFAE addressed all assets linked to agriculture , aiming to publicize and preserve the facts, experiences, traditions and culture by sharing among senior and youth), identified the goals set and achieved, described the research work and interviews conducted;
- Nelson Roque, professor and element that developed project iRemember in EPFA, where in this public presentation explained the methodology created: designing 3 guides, including a training program for training teachers / trainers / facilitators; training program online for students; Virtual memories laboratory, with "The Land" platform through a web documentary, interviews, photo media, video and a virtual platform;
- 15 trainees / participants which are the senior people involved in the project;
- 25 EPFA students which attend Audiovisual Technician (1st year) and Tourism Technician (3rd year) professional courses, of which 7 were involved in this project;
- 1 participant from Spain, Canary Islands, operating assistant, and 1 participant from Romania, studying at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria;
- Teachers and staff of EPFA;
- Dr. Margarida Silveira and Dr. Maria do Céu André, teachers of the Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Beja School of Education;
- 4 Technicians of the Town of Vidigueira (School Action departments, Vidigueira Museum, Tourism, Finance);
- 2 students from Vidigueira’s School Grouping.
After the project explanation, we started to present the Laboratory of memories, in which envisioned the "The Land" platform, which brings together a set of shared memories of the senior population of the municipality, where through short texts, photos and videos the historical context of the revolution was persented; statements of political reality and work in our region; agricultural crops (old / modern); ancient and modern work equipment; personal life, dating and costumes, testimonies and statements of the elderly population of the municipality; poems; the activities and the conviviality among men after work (traditional singing from Alentejo), among others. This also involved the viewing of short videos where participants shared their memories.
Afterwards, the web documentary was viewed, which aims to gather all the performed procedures in a single documentary, from the beginning to the conclusion of the project.
Finally, there was a conviviality snack, where participants were able to reflect on the project and get along with each other.
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5th Meeting minute
(14th and 15th July 2016)
Attending Organizations:
Ce.S.F.Or. – IT: Ernesto Russo, Gabriele Giampieri;
Euro Adult Education – RO: Lenuta Dadaci, Marin Matache;
PlayHouse – NI: Niall McCaughan, Pauline Ross;
C.E.C.E. – ES: Marian de Villanueva;
C.E.F.A.E. – PT: Nelson Roque;
Sapienza – IT: Carlo Brunelleschi
On Skype:
A.E.L.L.L. – AR: Arevik Sargsyan;
Sapienza – IT: Luca Reitano
On Thursday, the official welcome reception took place at C.E.C.E. headquarter, with a welcome speech of Marian De Villanueva, C.E.C.E. coordinator (the hosting partner).
The Ce.S.F.Or. President - Ernesto Russo - thanked C.E.C.E. for the meeting management and all the partners for the efforts demonstrated so far.
Gabriele Giampieri – project manager assistant for Ce.S.F.Or. – introduced himself and presented the overall state of the art and the project outputs impact foreseen.
All the activities, products and the future actions examined during the meeting are described in the following pages.
Discussion Topic
Action Points
A1
Project Management and Implementation
The 5th and final project meeting fulfilled the aim to evaluate all the activities, materials, products and outputs made by the partnership so far in order to guarantee the quality and the efficacy of all the deliverables foreseen by the project.
During the meeting the following activities and products have been evaluated:
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Implementation of Laboratories of Memories (O1/A6)
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Case-studies (O1/A7)
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Monitoring and evaluation (O1/A8)
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Training path for tutors and teachers - Impact and results evaluation (O2/A2)
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Online training for students - Impact and results evaluation (O3/A3)
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Virtualization and meta-dating (O4-A1)
Furthermore the partnership planned and discuss the further actions to implement:
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Laboratories of Memories Virtualization – Technical Evaluation (O4-A2)
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Dissemination activities to be completed by the end of August;
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Monitoring and evaluation activities to be completed by the end of July;
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Financial documentation deadlines by the end of July;
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Check of the Trimestral Monitoring Forms
In the end, Cesfor checked all the documentation and evidences foreseen for:
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Transnational Project Meetings
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Multiplier Events
O1-A6
Implementation of the Laboratories of Memory
The partners discussed about the implementation of Laboratories of Memory in each Country as starting point for the further activities related to it.
All the partners declared to be satisfied about the activities carried out and they received a good feedback from tutors, students and teachers who actively implemented the laboratory.
Each theme developed grabbed the attention of the young students who exploited the chance to deepen a part of their Country history through the intergenerational activities set up by the tutors.
The activities carried out provided the stories, interviews, testimonies, materials, photos and videos required to face the further case study (O1-A7) and the virtualization and upload of materials on “The Land” (O4-A1)
All the partners answered the evaluation questionnaires prepared by Ce.S.F.Or. for the assessment of this activity.
O1-A7
Case - Study
During the meeting the partners had the chance to have a look to the web-documentaries realized.
A little criticality has been reported regarding the access on the official
iRemember YouTube channel as the video platform protect the account owner from potential external access. Every doubt has been resolved.
At the moment the following partners have uploaded their own web-documentary on iRemember YouTube Channell: CeSFOr., Playhouse, CEFAE, Euro Adult Education (Romanian Partner just have to add eng subtitles).
CECE and AELLL will upload the webdocumentary by the end of July.
The quality of the web-documentaries uploaded so far has been evaluated during the meeting and it resulted high.
All the partners completed the O1-A7 evaluation questionnaires prepared by CECE who provided also the final report of the activity assessment
O1-A8
Monitoring and Evaluation
All the evaluation tools foreseen for the Intellectual Output 1 have been assessed and collected:
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O1-A2: Interview to the focus groups;
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O1-A6: Implementation of Laboratories of Memory;
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O1-A7: Case Studies
According to the final stage of the activities foreseen in Output 1, a set of questions to evaluate the activities carried out within the Output 1 has been distributed to all the partners in order to let CeSFOr complete the O1-A8 final report during the weeks after the meeting.
O2-A2
Training path for tutors and teachers - Impact and results evaluation
All the feedbacks collected by Euro Adult Education during the Joint Staff Training Event as well as its final report on the training will be exploited as background for the training path for tutors final evaluation report.
To assess the impact and the results CeSFOr prepared the Monitoring Plan used for the evaluation and the final report will be drafted during the weeks after the project meeting.
O3-A2
Online Training Delivery
During the meeting the partnership proceeded to the final check of the Moodle platform where the online training course has been inserted. The online platform is well structured in the sections foreseen by the course.
Just an upgrade about the graphic background and the official logos has been requested during next week for completion.
O3-A3
Impact and Result Evaluation
The questionnaires for the online training for students have been prepared by Euro Adult Education as partner in the monitoring and evaluation.
The questionnaires have been distributed by all the Partners to the students who attended the online training.
Then all the filled questionnaires have been collected by the Romanian partner and sent to Cefae who drafted a Final Report.
During the meeting the Portuguese partner showed the final results of the evaluation, highlighting the high satisfaction reported by the feedbacks in the following field:
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Sustainability of the tools
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Appropriateness of the tools provided in view of the Laboratory of Memory implementation
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Innovation of the tools
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Extra-knowledge provided
O4-A1
Virtualization and Meta-Dating
During the meeting the partnership proceeded to the assessment of “The Land” platform implementation.
All the partners were aware about the procedure needed to upload the stories and materials on “The Land” and nobody ran into technical difficulties.
The partners from Italy, Spain and Romania have already uploaded a significant number of stories together with photos.
All the other partners uploaded a first history linked to the theme they chose to deepen in the Laboratory of Memory. By the end of July all the stories will be uploaded and geo-localized on The Land.
About meta-dating, Sapienza provided further assistance about
this process. All the Partners will send the name of the materials they intend to upload in The Land to Digilab staff as final guarancee for this action.
O4-A2
Technical Evaluation
Sapienza prepared the evaluation questionnaires to assess the feedbacks on technical issues related to “The Land” and meta-dating. By the end of July Sapienza will draft a final report at partnership level on technical evaluation.
A2
Dissemination Exploitation
The partnership checked the dissemination activities carried out so far as well as the documentation of the Multiplier Events realized.
The Multiplier Event in Yerevan is the only Multiplier Evnet not yet realized and it will be implemented the last
week of July.
The second newsletter will be translated by all the partners in their own languages by the end of July and disseminated through the stakeholders list prepared by the partnership.
The third and last newsletter will be prepared between July and August and the final draft and sending is set at the beginning of September reporting the last period activity (April – August 2016)
A3
Monitoring and Evaluation
During the meeting CeSFOr assessed the Trimestral Monitoring and Evaluation forms and set the deadlines for the further templates:
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End of July (Timeframe March-May 2016);
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Beginning of September (Timeframe Jun-Aug 2016).
Financial Management
All the partnership agreed to send the timesheet (March-June 2016) by the week following the meeting to CeSFOr administrative staff.
5th Project Meeting Evaluation
At the end of the meeting, the partner Euro Adult Education provided questionnaires for the assessment of the meeting in Madrid.
In about a week, Euro Adult Education will put on Dropbox its results and we are ready to receive suggestions and feedback from partners.
Transnational meetings
iRemember, Kick off Meeting in Rome, Italy
During the 22nd-23rd January 2015, the partners participated in Rome, in the 1st Transnational Meeting, and our partners from Armenia, the A.E.L.L.L. Association was presented on Skype. In this meeting the partners had the opportunity to meet each other and discuss all the guidelines about the KA2 project under the Erasmus+, Strategic Partnership project n. 2014-1-IT02-KA200-003613: project activities proceedings, results, decisions, criticalities, required follow-up activities and tasks, deadlines and an evaluation. In this context the partners learnt how to deal with the Project Management and Implementation, Financial and Administrative rules, had an overview of the project aims, activities and outputs, how to do the Dissemination Report, creating also a Stakeholders Map and a Database mailing list. After the partners established how to promote the Quality Assurance and Evaluation and discussed about the iRemember Methodology: Training for teachers/tutors; Training for students; Laboratory of Memories. The partners decided all the activities to carry on on the next months, planned the Joint Staff Training Event in Madrid, discused about the implementation of the Multiplier Events in each county and decided the dates for the next Transnational project meetings. At the end, they created a workplan to plan the next steps to develop the project.
2nd Transnational Meeting, Vidigueira, Portugal
During the 20th and 21stApril 2015, CEFAE/EPFA received the delegation of the iRemember project. On Monday it was the official welcome reception that took place at CEFAE/EPFA's school with the representatives of the school board, Elisabete Rosa and Estêvão Pereira, of the Municipality of Vidigueira, The Cultural and Educational Chairman, Luís Pestana, and the partners from Italy, Romania, Spain and Northern Ireland. The host partner presented the project in a general way, focusing on its goals and activities for the two years of the project. It was also presented the main importance of this project, of the activities in each country, focusing also on the impact of the project and this kind of partnership on a local, regional, national and international level. The coordinator of the project, Andrea Cenderello, thanked to all the participation and referred the importance of the project, in a local and European levels. The partners presented and shared the Laboratories of Memories topics, providing a description of the topic of its laboratory and the reasons why that topic was selected. CEFAE presented a video; All the other partners presented a PowerPoint presentation about each country Laboratory.
After, each partner described the implemented method and the results of the Focus Group/Interviews. About the Merging of iRemember Methodology key elements the partners discussed how it will be the presentation of: Training programme for intergenerational activities; Storytelling technique; Guidelines for the use of the Land platform. The Playhouse presented and shared their experience about the training for theatre facilitators (detailed the information about the methodology, aims and objectives, in terms of modules, length, skills acquired, learning outcomes, etc.). Ce.S.F.Or. explained the storytelling techniques and the use of the CeltX software. La Sapienza explained how to deal with the platform and they will create a Manual on the use of The Land platform.
After the explanations and discussions, the involved partners in this project decided and planned for the merging of the three elements in a single training process. And after the partners will create a Methodology to adapt to local context.
After the meeting, in the evening, the partners visited the Alqueva Dam, the infrastructure responsible for the changes in the agricultural field in Alentejo region and one of the new entrepreneurism/innovative business in the region, Herdade do Sobroso.
iRemember, 3rd Transnational Meeting in Bucharest, Romania, 29 – 30 October 2015
The third transnational meeting of the iRemember project was held in Bucharest (Romania's capital) on 29 - 30 October 2015. On Thursday, the official welcome reception took place at Capital Plaza Hotel, with a speech of Mariana Matache, the president of EUROED Association (the host partner), who also presented the meeting agenda to all the partners, from Italy, Spain, Northern Ireland and Portugal.
The coordinator of the project, Andrea Cenderello, presented the project in a general view, but also the importance and the impact of the iRemember and the partners discussed about the activities implemented in each country or about the future of the project, upcoming events and appointments in the project’s frame, its dissemination etc.
At the end of the day, the partners had a study visit to the Palace of the Parliament of Romania (People's House), structure built during the communist regime at the request of Nicolae Ceausescu, but currently houses the highest legislative authority of the country (the Parliament).
Joint staff event in Madrid, Spain
From 9th to 14th December 2015, in Madrid, Spain, CECE organized the Joint Staff Training Event (for trainers) in the frame of iRremember Project. The host partners and the coordinator of the project made a presentation of the project’s outcomes and welcomed everyone.
Liam Campbell from the Playhouse, Nordern Ireland, started the program with a general overview of the methodologies that were already developed and also about the way they should be used. He explained and demonstrate the Ice breaker techniques that introduces the participants in storytelling; the name of activity was ‘’I Remember, I wish”.
After his presentation, followed all the partners with their presentations:
CEFAE/EPFA presented the activity ‘’Our Words, Our Story”, a technique that promotes exercices that inspires intergenerational bonding and storytelling. This activity was conducted by Elisabete Rosa and Nelson Filipe Jordao Roque.
The Playhouse After, Liam Campbell, continued to explore our common understanding of key universal themes that are found in stories and real life conflicts with his activity ‘’Human Statues”. It was very entertainning, groups of people were put to emphasize words, concepts, only by gestures as a group statue. Every participant had been envolved in this form of live sculpture.
CECE, Marian Villanueva presented ‘’My environment: The Rural And The City”. Participants were asked to discuss the positives and the negatives aspects of living in a rural or urban area. The worth of the dialogue was considered as a means to empathy and mutual respect. After a very rich day, all have dinner and we became more united.
EUROED Association’ s presented the activity ‘’Șezătoarea’’. The activity started with a brief Power Point presentation of this concept and its traditional aspects; after that, Mariana Matache, the president of EUROED Association, arranged the participants in circle and, while having a cookie and a glass of tea or coffee, the Romanian team started a debate about Comunism and the transition to democracy, the theme of Romania. Everybody saw the importance of standing at the same level, eating and drinking together, creating human bonds necessary for a good environment for storytelling.
After, Liam Campbell continued his exposure on storytelling methodology by underlining the importance of active listening in a storytelling or shared memory environment and its value in conducting interviews: ”Active Listening & Interviews”.
Afterwards, the armenian partener, Arevik Sargsyan, presented the ‘’Ball-bearing” debate. There were chairs arranged in a circle and every chair had a specific topic for disscution written on a card; the other participants were rolling around this circle of chairs. At every turn, participants were enriching the main subject of the workshop.
After, EUROED Association presented the method ‘’Exhibition”. This exploits the power of image, which itself, tells a story.
The partner from Northen Irleand continued the presentation of the methodology with the ‘’Narrative Voice” part. In storytelling the voice of the storyteller should follow the rulles of the art of word. Expresivity of the language, the warm voice are things to consider in atracting the audience interest.
On Saturday, the whole morning was dedicated to the Playhouse activities: “Creative Life Writing”; The second activity had a different approach. Every person was asked to come in front, to bring a very personal object and tell the story behind it. The interesting fact was that this exercise raised the level of trust and friendship between participants; ‘’Conflict Resolution Through Communication”.
Sunday was the day of evaluation of iRemember project. Activities were mainly guided by the manager of the project, Andrea Cenderello, but every participant had the opportunity to speak and share their opinion. The training, the quality of the methodology, the further steps and timings from this point on, were the themes of discussions. At the end, the participants had the possibility to address questions that were answered.
All the partners agreed that the methods presented should be adaptable to local context and to local conflictual experiences.
On Monday, Andrea Cenderello, presented the concept of storyboarding, as a powerful tool to illustrate the action of a narration and also presented the application Celtx as a mean to storyboard.
In the afternoon, Carlo Brunelleschi made a presentation and an exercise about the use of the online platform ‘’The Land’’, that will be used to publish the stories, the interviews and the results of the iRemember project. We all exercised how to use the online platform; we uploaded some stories and pictures to get used to it and we filled a feedback questionnaire in the end.
The day ended with final thoughts from participants concerning the training path for teachers and tutors and the online training for students.
The Joint Staff Training Event was a very interesting and meaningful experience, because everyone had something to learn from each other and to share their thoughts and experiences.
Methodology_ general and local context
After several international project meetings, the partnership was able to disseminate the:
- Intellectual Output One – Methodology;
- Intellectual Output Two - Training Pathway for Tutors and Teachers, in 3 documents: Section 1 – “Storytelling & Narrative” – 20 hours training; Section 2 – “Story, Storyboarding, & CeltX – 13 hours training and Section 3 – “The Land” – 2 hours training, in a total of training of 35 hours.
After, the partners have the opportunity to adapt to local context, according to the theme of each laboratory.
During the process, the teachers implemented an Online training for students that is a merged document that helps the students to gain the essential skills to produce the laboratories.
Laboratory of Memories_starting
During the months of February, March and April, all the partners started the Laboratories of Memories, where senior and young people joined together and had the experience of sharing experiences. The process started with several icebreaking activities and, according to the online training for students, the young started doing interviews, recording in video and taking photos. Senior people had the opportunity of telling their life stories. Students taking part in training on Storytelling Techniques, Active Listening, Storyboarding and interview skills were guided by the Facilitators (staff/teachers involved in this project). In this activity participated 6 seniors and 6 students, in each country.
Multiplier events:
Bucharest
On 12.01. 2016 the EUROED Association from Bucharest in partnership with Drajna Cultural Center and ‘’Platon Mocanu’’ Secondary School from Drajna, Prahova county, organized in Drajna de Sus School, a multiplier event in the frame of iRemember project. Mrs. Mariana Matache, president of EUROED Association made a presentation of the iRemember project: the aims of the project, its development stages, who are the participating partners, which are the results until now and which are the steps that will take place in the future.
Mr. Gabriel Coman, a member of the Local Initiative Group from Drajna, made a presentation and then screened the movie “Once upon a time - Communism’’, directed by himself and produced in 2009 by the students of 7th grade of Drajna de Sus Secondary School. After that, it followed a World Cafe workshop with the theme ‘’The Communist regime and the transition to democracy’’, where people were divided into six groups and at each table was assigned one host, the others were appointed ambassadors. From the 12 questions selected were chosen 6, each host receiving one and the teams of ambassadors answered and discussed, by rotation, all these questions. There have been interesting and interactive discussions, different opinions between generations, young people had the opportunity to learn new things. The second part of the seminar began with a photo exhibition, entitled ‘’The civilization of the eye - signs of change’’, in which the author approaches the theme of the Romanian village depopulation in Drajna. Also, the ‘’Șezătoarea’’ was a good opportunity to discuss how popular customs and traditions were preserved regardless which political regime rules. The conclusion that everybody agreed was that the traditions are the most invaluable wealth that we have and defines our identity as a people. The event was attended by 50 people of different ages and professions, 31 of them from Drajna and 11 from other Local Initiative Groups in the region, which deals with the Adult Education from Plopeni (4), Bertea (2), Cocorastii Misli (1), Izvoarele (2) and Maneciu (2), 7 people from EUROED Association and 1 person from the USA.
Derry
Major iRemember Storytelling Event held in the Playhouse, Derry, Northern Ireland The iRemember concept of underling the power of intergenerational stories to explore contemporary history in conflict and post conflict regions took its first giant step forward in Derry, Northern Ireland on Oct 2nd this year. The iRemember storytelling event, presented to a packed theatre, featured presentations from noted speakers on storytelling, a puppet show on myth, narrative song, drama and an interactive theatrical workshops. The event, which featured schools from across the Irish religious divide, FE and university students, lecturers, facilitators and the general public placed fun and focus upon new approaches to teaching, learning, and preserving stories. There were 8 different nationalities in attendance, and the event was broadcast live to European iRemember partners in Armenia, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and Spain. Keep checking these pages for more updates – iRemember: discovering pathways to storytelling and documenting hidden history.
