During the two-year long Grundtvig Partnership „Enough for Everyone Forever“ four European organizations (based in Spain, France, Germany and Poland) work together to improve educational methods for sustainable education.

All four partners use creative methods to work with adults on political and ecological topics, but each one is expert on a specific approach such as visual arts, theatre or music.

Each organization hosts one meeting, inviting the partners to get to know its context of educational work. During those meetings, we share our skills and experiences both in theoretical and practical ways. Combining our creative approaches, we develop an interdisciplinary action that is carried out in the public space and sensibilizing the audience about sustainability.

What we have learned during the process is then transformed by each partner into an innovative pedagogical concept adapted to the organizations context and target group. After putting the concept into practice individually, we meet for the last time in order to reflect on the potential of the new tools that we have developed and to plan our future transnational projects, where we are going to bring together adults from different cultural backgrounds and use our newly acquired educational skills to work together on a sustainable future.

mardi 5 novembre 2013

Immigant women of Barcelona


 MALOKA COLOMBIA
 www.colectivomaloka.org

Last weekend (26-27 Oct) the PIC assisted, for the first time, the Mujeres Pa-Lante (MPL) feminist collective for women from immigrant families. Mujeres Pa-Lante which freely translates into "women go forward" has been fighting for womens' rights within the immigrant communities in  Barcelona for over 7 years and the PIC wanted to help them spread their message and raise funds for the social and educational activities that they offer to those women who them selves or their family left their home country to settle in Spain.





The collaboration was a big success with a large number of both women and men from the immigrant communities of Nou Barris and Barcelona coming up to visit our social centre to learn about the different strategies the MPL women employ to cultivate independence and equality and social integration amongst those with different ethnical and cultural backgrounds. Not only were the educational activities well visited at the end of the day the MPL collective also managed to raise enough funds through the running of our bar and soup kitchen to cover their running costs for the coming months.

If you would like more information about the MPL you can visit their website www.mujerespalante.org or call (+34-93 263 37 65) or email (mujerespalantebcn@yahoo.es)


For those of you who speak Catalan here is what The Mujere Pa-Lante have to say about themselves:


Inscripciones en talleres Mujeres Palante
Les dones decidim creuar oceans, fronteres, explorar el món i les seves moltes possibilitats per múltiples raons. Mujeres Pa'lante som un col · lectiu que va sorgir a partir d'un grup de dones migrades que construïm un espai d'acollida a altres dones des de fa 7 anys. Actualment som voluntàries de diferents procedències que impulsem aquest espai de trobada, suport i informació per a dones migrades i autòctones sobre Orientació psicològica, sociolaboral i legal
Prevenció de violència de gènere, tallers de creixement personal i monitores de salut, Cursos de català, castellà, informàtica i alfabetització Campanyes de convivència i solidaritat en els nostres barris.

Apostem per la solidaritat entre dones, perquè sabem de la importància de les xarxes de suport, entenem que la forma de deconstruir la xenofòbia és coneixent-nos, interactuant, i valorant la diversitat de cultures que convivim a Catalunya. Creiem que les dones hem de compartir eines que ens permetin ser autònomes, empoderar-i trencar els cercles de violència (de gènere i institucional) que vivim. Anem teixint xarxes de suport i afecte, anem filant espais comuns per compartir i créixer juntes.

vendredi 27 septembre 2013

Consumopedia

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The Interaction Point Collserola (PIC) is collaborating with the Centre for Information and Research on Consumption (CRIC), editors of the ethical consumption magazine Opcions. Together we are creating a new web based platform called Consumpedia. Here people can freely access practical information in order to change their consumption patterns.

The web site has different sections:
- Participatory map: people will find 2000 alternative consumer initiatives all over Spain and could add form the computer more initiatives to complete the map
- Resources bank: people can find different materials (videos, presentations, books,...) related to alternative consumption useful for outreach, education, advocacy... purposes
- Blog: a weekly updated blog with reflection, news, etc. related to alternative consumption the perfect channel to stay up to date on the latest in the world of sustainable consumption.
- Product information: summarized information from the Opcions magazine on different consumer categories and products, practical information ready to be applied.

currently only the old version of the Consumopedia can be publicly accessed (www.consumpedia.org)


Promoting Food Autonomy



From December 14th to 16th 2012 the I Seminar on Local Agroecological Promotion, organized through the PIC and supported by Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Programme, took place in Barcelona. More than 80 people participated in it, mainly from Catalunya but also from other regions of Spain (Galícia, Euskal Herria, Canarias, Andalucía, Extremadura, Madrid...). The attendees were mainly experienced people, engaged in different kinds of Agroecological projects, who showed high affinity with the conceptual and methodological framework proposed for the seminar. The event quickly turned into a hard working atmosphere, in which everyone was highly self-motivated, sharing their experiences, learning from each other and networking for their project. This created a high level of exchange between inputs and discussions, allowing us to build a common ground of how to further promote Agroecological practices in our local communities.

Although the objectives and methodology proposed were very ambitious, the general evaluation of the seminar gave a highly positive response from the participants. The working-by-projects approach, and the hands-on methodology based on in-depth participatory techniques, allowed us to deal with different and innovative methodologies, and at the same time opened different discussions related to the complexity of Agroecology diffusion in our de-farmed postindustrial countryside. Working on three real case studies presented by their creators and representatives built up an emotional atmosphere in which we all got deeply involved in discussing the different realities. Participants and organizers of the three selected projects were highly satisfied with the outcomes of the seminar, in terms of both the methodological and strategic contents of each case study. At the end, everyone asked for a second edition of this seminar, to take place in one of the locations of the three projects we worked on during the seminar.
From May 2013 we have worked on the conclusions of the seminar, which will be published in an online document as a “Guide for Local Agroecological Promotion”. This Guide will compile every document and participatory piece of knowledge produced and collected during the seminar. Hopefully we will be able to edit some audiovisual documents with the most interesting outcomes of the seminar, such as the main talks, concluding remarks and some interviews of participants and speakers. For these documents, which will be posted in our open-access blog, we arranged a crowd-funding campaign in order to allow us to manage the technical and compilation work needed to analyze the results, and communicate the outcomes.

dimanche 26 mai 2013

Marseille, may 2013 : second meeting













French step of "Enough for everyone forever" european project took place in Marseille, from may 2013 22 to 26.

Most of the participants where hosted in GOercn's headquarters, a place which allowed both common daily life and work as it was pointed in wishes during previous meeting.

A disposal which required a bit time to self managed cooking and collective life, but which was felt as very important to continue to build links between participants.

 

In the first evening, GOercn introduced the meeting by submitting planning and operational goals, first oriented toward discovery of participants and local initiatives, then around building some really simple proposals of common productions.

Then french host gave a short overview of  his activities, mainly :

- actual leading project Euro Actors For Environment, which is both a workshop and an itinerary exhibition related to eco conception, citizenship and intercultural competences
GOercn also intent to contribute to EEE by developing a pedagogic side of this project for adults with less opportunity
- recently finished Green Bridges project, an enquiry about environmental good practices among french and german social workers

Some GOercn's members and partner's came as guests to be part of this first hosting.

Giving local inputs
The first day of the meeting was organized to allow active discovery of local cases in small international groups, with requirement to document the visits and prepare a feed back through some ideas of what could be concrete actions for EEE's project.

Two groups of participants visited some marseillan partners' projects dedicated to reusing objects :

- Recyclodrome : a small militant NGO which tried to give environmental awareness in a really popular "Noailles" quarter in inner town
- Impulse Toit : a social project aiming to help unemployed people to mobilize again and find a job through recycling activities.

Then everybody gathered to visit Yes we camp project, an ephemeral camping leaded during Marseille 2013 Capital of Culture Year and mixing ecological and citizenship practices, and cultural events.

The group finally met one of GOercn members for lunch in his typical "l'Estaque"'s quarter house, an architect which activity consisted in helping private owners to restore traditional houses in ecological ways.


 













Searching ideas
During second day, morning was leaded by Theaterbuednis' partner which proposed some creative exercices about topic to continue to link the group and inspire proposals. Warm up, living machines, writing workshop where also really useful to generate and share concepts' keywords.


Then after a small time taken to finalize prototypes, each group introduced his ideas which were written and filmed.




Beyond networking, practical workshops, the generic idea of "Second life" of objects was evocated as red line for the whole project.

Some participants went in the evening to Contemporary Art Museum for "le Pont"'s exhibition private viewing. A project which also intented to build bridges around mediterranean see.

Summerizing, preparing next step
Third day was mainly employed to adjust some working modalities : which ways to manage next steps ? how many remain as one of the partner was rejected ? who will be the participants ?

Then partners end the official meeting around last dinner, some coming back in their country the day after, others staying a couple of days more to continue to discover the area.