European Encounters” Project
Bruges Bialystok EUROPE Huércal-Overa Póvoa de Varzim Liverpool EuropeanA recepie Encounters for cultural exchange The “European Encounters” project Picture taken during the start meeting in Liverpool. 2 The “European Encounters” project has included partners from POLAND (Coordinator), BELGIUM, PORTUGAL, SPAIN and the UK, and offered disadvantaged adults (older learners, refugees, immigrants, unemployed people and women) opportunities to increase their knowledge and cultural awareness about the European Union (EU), as a means to enhance their confidence in accessing lifelong learning and/or longer term employment opportunities. Our adult learners have been engaged The project has increased the sense of in the preparation and organisation of European “togetherness” by offering project activities which has enhanced disadvantaged participants new learning their motivation to lifelong learning opportunities, increased mobility and through formal and non-formal teaching networking opportunities to underpin methods in English language and IT, their own self belief for onward learning as well as through confidence and and employment – irrespective of age, motivational opportunities to prepare and gender, immigration background or make presentations about their own and employment status. the partner countries including traditional This project recipe book was inspired foods/arts/music and dance. by our belief that through the simple act In the long term, the combined effects of sharing food culture and traditions will make a meaningful difference to our together, we learn and remember more of learners’ attitudes and access to lifelong what makes us similar and different on our learning and employment prospects “European Encounters” journey. across the EU, whilst engendering an understanding of the different cultures which co-exist in a multi-cultural/multi- racial EU.
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