Project: EL PODER DE LAS HISTORIAS – THE POWER OF STORIES 2020-1-ES01-KA227-ADU-095529

KA227 ADU – Development of Innovation

Coordinator: ASOCIACION DE INNOVACION, FORMACIÓN Y EMPLEO PARA EL DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE. AIFED.

Partners: AUGUST VERMEYLEFONDS Belgium

CONTEMPORARY PLEVEN MEDIA FOUNDATION Bulgaria

EYROPAIKO INSTITOYTO TOPIKHS ANAPTYKSHS Greece

Duration: 18 months

Context

The human mind evolved with stories and is shaped by them. Good storytelling can motivate people to do incredible things and is a tremendous advantage in communication. Education and learning are no exception. The world of storytelling is a vast one. It covers the entire world and everything in it, and every century in which there is a record of storytelling having taken place. There is no known culture without some form of storytelling, and the craving to know “what comes next” has been felt by every human being, regardless of age, gender, culture, or century.

Stories also can be used for educational purposes. Storytelling provides other growth opportunities, as stories help listeners to see through another’s eyes and to share the protagonist’s feelings of anger, fear, or love—all from a safe place. Perhaps best of all, stories stretch the imagination. The teller takes the listener to distant places where remarkable things happen. And once stretched, an imagination stays stretched.

Within this project we aim to use the power of stories to ignite creativity in adults and develop their resilience skills and capacity to come up with innovative solutions for different challenges.

For this, 2 Intellectual Outputs will be developed:

IO1: Research and Collection of Stories

Each partner will make a research at local level (regional, national) and collect at least 15 stories that have meaning within the project objectives. The stories will be “tested” with groups of adults at local level – testing that they do have a meaning and they trigger feelings and behaviours.

IO2: Training Course Modules

The training course aim to capacitate adult educators to use storytelling in developing adults creativity, resilience and promote the social inclusion of vulnerable groups. There will be 6 modules for this training course.

Meet our partners

August Vermeylenfonds

Vermeylenfonds vzw, The August Vermeylenfonds is a cultural association that existed since 1946. In those days, Vermeylenfonds was founded by a group of freethinkers and humanists who wanted to preserve and keep alive the writings and ideas of August Vermeylen, former and humanists who wanted to preserve and keep alive the writings and ideas of August Vermeylen, former professor, university rector and important voice in the world of Flemish literature and culture. Flemish literature and culture. Since then, August Vermeylenfonds is a non-profit organisation based in Ghent, Belgium… Read more

CONTEMPORARY PLEVEN MEDIA FOUNDATION

Contemporary Pleven Media Foundation (CPMF) was founded in Pleven in 2014. Its team consists of journalism and humanitarian educated people and volunteers. CPMF is the successor of the regional daily newspaper “Posrednik”, published from 1991 to 2015, which now, as an online medium, continues the newspaper’s mission to be a driver of public processes…Read more

EYROPAIKO INSTITOYTO TOPIKHS ANAPTYKSHS

The European Institute for Local Development (EILD), was founded in 2009 as an independent non-governmental organization whose members are European citizens, entities and organizations devoted on supporting regional development activities and transnational collaboration. The General Committee consists of local development stakeholders and industry leaders from various sectors and European Member States: academics, NGOs, development agents, association managers, civil servants, and social economy companies, as well as European organizations for local development… Read more