The project is Erasmus+ Programme, Key Action 2: Strategic Partnerships – Development of Innovation Adult Education “URBAN GARDENING – The Urban Gardening Role in Improving of Adults’ Skills and Community Growth” the project will encourage to active participation and education the local community members, through setting up and maintaining the urban gardens. The project aims to elaborate an innovative educational method to teach soft skills by the work in the garden, e.g. interpersonal communication, team work, management, planning. We believe that urban gardens are places where social cohesion and learning could be strengthened.

OBJECTIVES:

• To organize the desk research of the good practices of urban gardening and its use to develop soft skills, in EU and other countries.
• To prepare the training method and materials for trainers
• To organize the training for trainers from partner institutions in order to test the developed training method
• To pilot the developed method of education through the gardening in the partner countries.
• To elaborate the Toolkit „Urban gardens as spaces of adults education” – Intellectual Output.

PARTNERS:

Coordinator: KCZIA – Kraków /POLAND

PARTNERS: HELLAS FOR US – Kozani / GREECE, ACD la Hoya –-La Hoya / SPAIN, Initiatives for Civil Society – Ruse / BULGARIA, EPLEFPA – Toulouse / FRANCE, PRISM – Enna / ITALY, Youth Eurasia – Istanbul / TURKEY.

Web: http://edu-urban-gardening.eu

This project has been funded with the support from the European Union. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the European Commission or Fundacja Rozwoju Systemu Edukacji – National Agency of Erasmus+ in Poland cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained herein.