25 November 2021
On 25th of November 2021 the project`s leader team together with the Romanian partner BeaconWave met the Association for Visually Impaired from Iasi in order to develop new tools and activities for these target groups.
Madrid is the place where the short-training activity entitled “Integrative practices for people with special needs in museum environments” will happen between 11-15 October 2021, under the coordination of Espacio Rojo. Participants will have the opportunity to tackle other categories of disadvantaged groups and learn about their expectations and ways to improve their experience in museums and cultural places in general.
17 June 2021
During 19-23 July 2021, project partners’ teams will meet in Berlin for participating in the short-term training activity coordinated by weltgewandt. Institut für Interkulturelle Politische Bildung. “Empowering (young) refugees in museum environments” will be a course designed for learning how to build empathy in cultural contexts starting from the “luggage” of memories refugees bring with them when forced to relocate. They do not move out of happiness but because life is too harsh with them, so they have to search for better options. How do we manage to approach them? to interact with them, to integrate them? These are questions still not fully answered, worldwide. This course aims at showing the value of cultural memories, and the way such empowerment can help create better integration contexts.
14 June 2021
During the period 21 to 25 June 2021, trainees selected by project partners will participate in Lanciano in a short-term training activity that will be coordinated by CPA di Giuseppina Bomba. The course is entitled ” Tasks and Skills of the museum mediator as diversity integrator” and will bring together specialists in various phases of their careers with the purpose of improving or developing special skills that are absolutely necessary in dealing with disadvantaged groups, spreading from communication and interaction skills to more technical aspects of learning such as using audio-video recording in professional activities.
10 June 2021
During 7 – 8 June 2021, the partners of the Erasmus+ Project ”United for those in Needs: Learn, Open, Care, Keep. The museum mediator as diversity integrator” (UNLOCK) will finally meet face to face, within the 2nd Transnational Project Meeting (after the first one, of December 2020, which had to take place online).
It will be the opportunity to discuss the project achieved so far in the creation of the intellectual outputs, particularly the online platform, and how things have been planned for the implementation of the modules designed for the visually impaired and for those with hearing difficulties.
2 June 2021
On 10 December 2020 there will take place online (via zoom) the project launching Press Conference, that will be broadcast on facebook, marking the start of the Erasmus+ Project ”United for those in Needs: Learn, Open, Care, Keep. The museum mediator as diversity integrator” (UNLOCK). The project brings together specialists from cultural, educational and social work backgrounds, with the aim of creating pathways meant to provide museum experiences tailored to the needs of disadvantaged target groups.
4 December 2020
The module is now available at the Science and Technique Museum / MOLDOVA National Museum Complex
On October 26, 2022, a team from the MOLDOVA National Museum Complex participated in the Inclusive Lifestyle public Cafe event, organized by the Iași Blind Association and financed by the Iași City Hall. We spoke to a group of approximately 70 people about the project for the blind and the hearing impaired implemented at the Palace of Culture in Iasi.
On 5th of July 2022 a team from the MOLDOVA National Museum Complex spoked within the Erasmus + project “Art&Signs – Art, Culture and Museum accesibility for Deaf audience” about the tools created at the Palace of Culture. The project is offering specific training to museum workers to transfer the basic language and technical skills in order to be able to welcome and guide Deaf visitors in museums. The National Association for Teachers with hearing impairements “Virgil Florea” organized the first learning activity in Iasi.
On 18th of November 2022 we spoke within the international conference MediCult – implications, opportunities, ressources, about the tools developped within the UNLOCK project.
