Proskills

The project ProSkills was run from 1^st August 2009 to 31^st July 2011 by a pool of educational organizations from all around Europe, with the purpose to create and promote creative and active training methods based on the arts (music, painting, film, drama, dance, writing) with target groups of socially disadvantaged adults, for the development of a creative mind, proactive attitudes and behaviour, learning skills and self-development. This included skills such as initiative spirit, creativity, capacity of innovation and self-improvement, problem solving, all personal competences that allow the for opportunity to improve the quality of private and professional life, enrich personal relations and increase the level of social participation and civil engagement.

The project has been financed within the framework of the Lifelong Learning Program, the  Grundtvig Action for Adult Education – Learning Partnership Development.

The partnership that worked on the project is formed by 6 organisations active in different fields of adult education. The European countries concerned are Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Lithuania.