INTEGRA PROJECT 2012 - 2014 European cooperation in the area of adult education Grundtvig Programme is part of the European grant Lifelong Learning Programme, LLP 2007-2013. It is focused on European cooperation in the area of education of adults, educational needs of people in all forms of adult education, i.e. focused on people older than 16 years with the exception of full time students of higher secondary and tertiary education institutions or universities. European Commission provides through GRUNDTVIG programme financial means (grants) for mobility of people who are involved in the area of adult education and for project activities to institutions which provide or support adult education. 3 Integra Project In the year 2013 started the project supported by the Slovak Academic Association for International Cooperation, the National Agency for Life Long Learning Programme in the sub-programme Grundtvig with the name INTEGRA. Partners in the project are Social Services Homes and Homes for seniors. The project coordinator is: » citizens’ association Traditional Folk Arts and Crafts Partners of the project: » Centre of social services, Český Těšín » Dom Pomocy Spolecznej im.Wladyslawa Godynia, Kraków » Éltes Mátyás Nevelési Oktatási Kozpont , Mosonmagyarovar The project was focused on teaching folk crafts to disabled people, seniors and occupational therapists. One of the active participants of the project was also the Social Services Home Zelený dom in Skalica. In the years 2013-2014 the mobility meetings took place in all partner towns: Český Těšín, Mossonmagyarovar, Skalica , Krakow and Piešťany. The opportunity was used not only by clients of the institutions, but also by occupational therapists, who could learn new technological procedures in production of new products and then they used them in their home organisations. This brochure will inform you in more detail on the course of the project, its results and mainly on the need to work in similar projects. All the partners prepared it together and expressed their knowledge, experience, and mainly their effort to continue in the started activities also in the future. 4 Material and published photographs have been provided by the project partnersl Basic information about the organization The citizens´ assotiation Traditional Folk Arts and Crafts Strečanského 602, 920 41 Leopoldov, Slovakia The citizens’ association Tradičné ľudové umelecké remeslá (Traditional Folk Arts and Crafts) was founded in 2006. Its activity is focused on maintaining traditional arts and crafts, presentation of crafts and craftsmen in Slovakia as well as abroad. Main activities of the association include organising of international festivals of folk craftsmen, work with disabled people and senior citizens, education for occupational therapists. Organising of events started in 2009 in the Slovak spa town Piešťany with the event Traditional folk arts and crafts. In the first year 120 craftsmen participated and the number of participants has increased year by year. This event is very popular with craftsmen as well as visitors. Young visitors are discovering traditional crafts and the older ones are remembering. Every year the visitors can see up to 50 kinds of crafts. They can admire the work of potters, tinkers, woodcarvers, jewellers, lace makers, decorated Easter eggs makers, makers of cornhusk-dolls, leather products, and a lot of other traditional Slovak crafts. Our intention is also to introduce craftsmen from other countries. Our invitation has been accepted by the craftsmen from the Czech Republic and Moravia, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, Belgium, Croatia, Macedonia, China, Hungary, Israel, Slovenia. The event is under the patronage of the First Lady of Slovakia, Mrs. Silvia Gašparovičová. The project Traditional folk arts and crafts won the award from the National Agency for Development of Small and Medium Enterprises in 2011, and we advanced as the national candidate to the European round of this competition where we won the “European Enterprise Promotion Award”. 5 Our developing activities have brought us also to cooperation with the Slovak Academic Association. We have been cooperating with this organisation since 2010, and the Association has supported us in several projects prepared by us in the GRUNDTVIG sub-programme. The projects have been focused on teaching the disabled people, seniors and occupational therapists in the area of folk arts and crafts. We have actively cooperated with social services homes (DSS) within these projects, e.g. DSS Zelený dom in Skalica, Slovakia. We prepared the workshop “Learn a craft” in the High Tatras, courses for individual participants, two-year project INTEGRA where our partners are also social services homes from the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. We have a special cooperation with the citizens’ association Quadrifolia. In our mutual projects we are focused on teaching seniors and disabled people traditional crafts and education for occupational therapists. Since the year 2012 we have been organising events in Senec, Slovakia and in 2013 we started this tradition in the Slovak towns Hlohovec, Skalica and Žilina under the name Folk Arts and Crafts. In all these events there are 80-150 traditional producers as participants who present their own art. This is one of the conditions for their participation. Regular participants are social services homes – DSS Zelený dom in Skalica, DSS Merema from Modra and DSS Betánia from Senec. In 2014 we organized seven international festivals of folk craftsmen in Slovakia: in Nitra, Piešťany, Hlohovec, Skalica, Štrbské Pleso, Senec a Žilina. The events Traditional arts and crafts are held under the patronage of the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic. Photographs from our activities and events can be seen here: http://picasaweb.google.com/tlur.sk More information can be found here: www.ludoveremesla.org Ing. Miloš Kunkel, Chairman of Citizens´ Assotiation Ľubica Kuzmová, coordinator of the project 6 Basic information about the organization Social Service Centre Český Těšín, a contributory organization Sokolovská 1997, 737 01 Český Těšín, Czech Republic The emergence of organization The organization was established on May 1, 2012 and is a successor of the merged contributory organizations Home for the elderly people Český Těšín, and the Social Services Český Těšín , whose founder is the Czech town Český Těšín. Provided registered social services: • Home for the Elderly (residential social service established from March 3, 2003) • health services (terrain social service established from October 1, 2006) • personal assistance (terrain social service established from September 1, 2008) Other operating unregistered services: • Rental of compensatory aids • Club for Elderly All of these services except Club for Elderly are domiciled in the object of home for the elderly. This home is residential care, whose mission is to provide social services for Elderly according to their individual needs. We strive for adequate support and assistance 7 for common needs and activities of users and at the same time dignified and happy spend a the autumn of life. The service has a capacity 72 seats in 54 rooms, of which 36 are single rooms and 18 double rooms with private facilities. Target group are elderly people over the age of 65 years. The service is used mainly by elderly people of the town of Český Těšín. Care service and personal assistance is a residential social care services whose mission is to provide help and support in a domestic or natural social environment to the elderly people, the disabled and the chronically ill patients who need assistance of another person to meet their particular vital needs to such an extent in order to maintain and to support their current self-sufficiency and mitigate the risk of social exclusion. The general aim of these services is to provide day care and personal assistance so that the user could stay as long as possible in their home or natural social environment and the opportunity to maintain and develop their abilities and skills and maintain existing practices. The target group of users are elderly people over 65 and people with disabilities or chronic illness aged 19 to 64 years. The total capacity of nursing services is set to 200 users, whom we can ensure the importation of food and 100 users, whom we can provide care. The total capacity of personal assistance is 7 users. Both services are intended for residents of the town Český Těšín and its surrounding areas. Ing. Januš Foltyn, Director of Centre of Social Services Český Těšín 8 Centre of Social Services Český Těšín, a contributory organization (CSS) Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Project was the first project funded by the EU, which was attended by our organization. I have to admit that before the start of the project we were full of expectation and uncertainty of how we manage role of a partner in this project. On the other hand, with the Polish partner has joined us have several years of cooperation. So we already knew what we can expect from it and also activity, initiative and clearly defined goals of our Slovak project coordinator were promise for successful project implementation. I have to state that the project has exceeded our expectation. In the project we engage more people in your organization than we had originally anticipated and therefore we could pass on more information about the project to our users, who were involved in this project indirectly, through our employees. At the first partnership meeting in our country in Český Těšín we presented primarily methods of work with paper (so-called quilling) and our own methods of work with ceramics. The results of these methods, we had the chance to see at a second meeting at our Hungarian partners, where to the work with ceramics were involved disabled youngsters, as well as at the third meeting with Slovak patrner. Thereby was also fulfilled one of the objectives of this project, the integration of persons with disabilities. Fine motor skills when working with paper yielded results in the form of products, presented by our Polish partners, which certainly had a positive impact on increasing self-confidence and optimism for seniors.