ACTING UP
ERASMUS+ KA2
Strategic Partnership for Adult education
26-27.01.2015, WARSAW, Poland
Kick-Off Meeting
ACTING UP PROJECT
Erasmus+, Strategic Partnership for Adult Education
Project Number: (2014-1-PL01-KA204-003034)
Duration: 36 months (September 2014–August 2017)
Partners from 5 countries:
• 36,6 Competence Centre, Lodz, Poland
• Glasgow Clyde College, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
• GIP FCIP de Basse Normandie – Caen, France
• Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação, Porto, Portugal
• Associazione N.E.T. Networking Education & Training,
Ponte San Nicolo, Italy
RATIONALE OF THE PROJECT
ACTING UP project aims are consistent with European
strategies and policies:
  Education and Training 2020 Strategy targets for adult
learning: by 2020, 15% of adults aged 25-64 should be
participation in lifelong learning, particularly those lowskilled; in addition, the project also addresses the
targets to increase the employment rate of the
population aged 20-64 to 75 %.
  Council Resolution on a renewed European agenda for
adult learning by enabling adults — in particular the
low-skilled and older workers — to improve their ability
to adapt to changes in the labour market and society.
AIM OF THE PROJECT
ACTING UP project sets the objective to engage adult
learners (especially those low-skilled with fewer
opportunities) in continuing education through the use
of drama techniques and up-skill them to find proper
education and employment pathways.
TARGET GROUPS
1. adult educators, trainers, vocational counsellors, and
socio-cultural practitioners who will be trained to use
drama activities as pedagogic method to support vulnerable
adult learners
2. adult learners at particular risk of exclusion, those
who require up-skilling or re-skilling, often affected by
unemployment, restructuring and career transitions, and
contribute to social inclusion, active citizenship and personal
development
ACTIVITIES (1)
1. Research activity to prepare ground for the
development, adapting and piloting ACTING UP
methodology. European Guidebook will be elaborated
2. Development of the Course curriculum and materials
of drama course for teachers. Practical workshops for
trainers how to exploit drama to support adult learners
will be organized. Group of 25 trainers will be involved.
Each partner will assign 5 teachers, trainers,
counsellors.
ACTIVITIES (2)
3. Materials of the course to be convert (digitalised)
from the current paper based materials onto the VLE
(Vitural Learning Environment) to support a wider
audience and make the training materials more widely
available to other counsellors across the sectors.
4. Designing course for beneficiaries. The trainers
involed in the project, once trained, will design a course
for adult learners at risk of exclusion using the drama
techniques. The aim is to enhance personal standing
and self image of beneficiaries, through a participative
theatre approach. This technique helps to raise
awareness and discover their potential.
ACTIVITIES (3)
5. Piloting the drama workshops by trainers in Poland,
France, Italy, Portugal and UK. Exploiting drama as tool
to motivate and engage adult learners. In each country
30 participants will be engaged. A final performance will
be delivered at the end of the pathways in each country.
6. Setting up and proceeding with Evaluation process.
Transversal activity through the whole course of the
project. It will guarantee the project results meet the
highest standards and needs of the trainers and end
beneficiaries.
ACTIVITIES (4)
7. Dissemination and Exploitation the project results. It
will include producing promotional materials such as
leaflets, project website and dissemination report. Local
small scale multiplier events will be organized in
participant countries. At the end final conference to
disseminate the outputs to national adult education
providers, policy makers and representatives from local
government and national funding bodies will be
organized in Lodz, Poland.
8. Management and Coordination of Activities.
Transversal activity through the whole course of the
project.
Overview of Intellectual Outputs
•  Partner roles and Responsibilities
•  Project Products/Outputs
•  Time Frames&Deadlines
Output 1 European Guidebook
•  Activity: Research
•  Output: European Guidebook on best practices on
the use of theatre as a methodological tool
•  Lead Partner: 36,6 CC
•  Duration: Month 2 – Month 5
Output 2 Trainers' training on
drama techniques
•  Activity: Development of the course curriculum and
materials of drama course for teachers
•  Output: Course curriculum and materials of drama
course for teachers
•  Lead Partner: SPI
•  Duration: Month 6 – Month 9
Output 3 E-learning course
•  Activity: Digitisation of the trainers' training course
•  Output: E-learning course for teachers, educators,
trainers, vocational counsellors and socio-cultural
practitioners
•  Lead Partner: Glasgow Clyde College
•  Duration: Month 10 – Month 15
Output 4 Course design for adult
beneficiaries
•  Activity: Joint design of the course for beneficiaries
•  Output: Course for beneficiaries based on the
exploitation of drama techniques
•  Lead Partner: GIP-FCIP
•  Duration: Month 10 – Month 18
Output 5 Training of beneficiaries
•  Activity: Piloting of the course in each country
•  Output: Training of end beneficiaries (adult learners)
•  Lead Partner: GIP-FCIP
•  Duration: Month 19 – Month 32
Output 6 Evaluation
•  Activity: Evaluation
•  Output: Evaluation reports
•  Lead Partner: NET
•  Duration: Month 2 – Month 36
Output 7 Dissemination
•  Activity: Production of the necessary tools to
disseminate the project activities / results
•  Outputs: Website, Brochure, Dissemination Reports
•  Lead Partner: 36,6 CC
•  Duration: Month 2 – Month 36
Learning, teaching or training
activities
•  Activity: C/1 Training for trainers how to exploit
drama to support adult learners
•  Activity along with: A.2 Trainers' training; A.3. Elearning course; A.4 Course design for beneficiaries
•  Hosting Organization: SPI
•  Duration: 5 days
•  Timeframe: Month 13 – Month 15
Multiplier events:
  E1 Multiplier event in Poland (Final Conference)
  E2 Multiplier event in Scotland, UK
  E3 Multiplier event in France
  E4 Multiplier event in Portugal
  E4 Multiplier event in Italy
•  Timeframe: Month 32 – Month 34