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Further Education for People with Intellectual Disabilities

The partnership consisted of 10 different institutions from 9 EU countries. The main project idea was to gather adult education accessible to all people. We decided to focus on workshops for people with intellectual disabilities, exclusively in an artistic context. We offered art workshops on painting, drawing, sculpture, music and handcraft. Art courses a spontaneous natural integration and from the perspective of people with intellectual disabilities, this activities have nothing but positive results. Having a intellectual disability does not influence a person’s various abilities and interests. Such people often have the same artistic potential as anyone else and can become artists. As part of the project, the participants had the opportunity to exchange experiences, learn about other countries and their approaches to people with intellectual disabilities, participate in discussions and did a lot of practical work. Important goal of our project was to publish the anthology – it could be also called a handbook, because it should serve as an encouragement for providers of adult education in general. In anthology we gathered some good practice examples from our workshops, held in Slovenia, Austria, France, Italy, Cyprus and Germany, there are also reports, ideas and guidelines how to organize a workshops for people with intellectual disabilities.Implementing the segregation programs from experienced partners (who have professional experiences in working with intellectually disabled people) into organization previously not dealing with handicapped was one of the main benefits of this partnership. The main idea of networking between organizations with and without experiences with disabled people was to complement educational institutions from wider EU region with examples of good praxis of implementing educational programs for special target groups. The results were achieved with different methods, discussions, forums, practical activities in workshops.
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