The Gaudete Foundation deal with education through:
- improving competence of adults
- evolving skills connected with personal development
- developing of children?s and youth? s talents
- carrying out trainings in the area of: mentoring, tutoring and coaching
The Gaudete Foundation provides support to people in difficult life situations through psychological advice and economic advice, career counseling, support for young people in the social economy.
The Gaudete Foundation supports teachers, trainers, and adult educators in their professional development by implementing a thematic project
The Gaudete Foundation was set up in 1992. The word "gaudete" (from latin) means enjoyment, contentment and fulfillment in life.The head office is situated in Katowice, region of Silesia. The Gaudete Foundation is NGO non government and non profit organization. The institution deals with social and useful areas
Equal Leadership is a project presented and entitled “A Drone to Promote Equality on Political and Economic Decision Making”, aims to define a new strategy and the creation of new tools that make it possible to achieve that desideratum.
For more: https://equalleadership.eu/
The Gaudete Foundation recognizes the need to expand the organization's offer in the field of adult education. The Gaudete Foundation employees recognize the need to prepare educational programs aimed at overcoming loneliness. Practical solutions and methods such as Storytelling and Memory box become necessary.
Storytelling is a natural way of exchanging people experiences. It assumes that by collecting stories, the history of the family or local community is accumulated. A memory box is a "box" and at the same time a method of collecting items that allow you to easily start a story and are also a document: it can be a photo, keys, souvenirs from the trips we have been to and many others.
There is a need for educators to expand their English language competences, which includes a large part of the literature in the field of Storytelling and Memory box.
International Perspectives on Inclusive Education
EOG/21/K1/D1/W/0037
The assumption of the project was to raise the key mathematical and digital competences necessary for seniors to live independently and with dignity.
Project goals:
The project was a response to the need to improve the quality of informal and non-formal learning of seniors in the field of the third key competence (mathematics) and digital skills, and in the context of improving the quality of education.
The project strengthened educational cooperation in the field of adult education, thanks to which the educational offer of the Gaudete Foundation was expanded.
The activities covered two areas of mobility: group mobility of adult learners and mobility for staff. Seniors received support in developing key competences, including mathematical, digital and ecological competences. The trip was carried out in the form of a group mobility of adult students to Hungary.
Staff mobility in the form of job shadowing was implemented. The adult education staff from the Gaudete Foundation took part in the activity by observing the work of the host organization in Spain.
The participants of the mobility activities are the staff of the consortium organization within the framework of non-professional adult education.
Participants are staff: employees and volunteers. The consortium consists of:
The project supports the acquisition, updating and development of participants' competences..
Detailed objectives of the project:
The project aims to increase the competence of the staff in the field of strengthening intergenerational solidarity through environmental education. The aim of the project is to build mutual understanding and tolerance between older and younger members of society. The project aims to acquire practical skills in intergenerational learning.
Intergenerational solidarity is broadly understood as "social cohesion between generations" (The "generation gap" 2005). Solidarity between generations at all levels - in families, communities and nations - is fundamental to achieving society for all age groups.
The Gaudete Foundation is the organizer of a series of concerts in Będzin under the name of "Będzin Organ Evenings". The main purpose of the organized concerts is to present the beauty of music, to promote organ and chamber literature in Będzin, and to disseminate music as the intangible heritage of the Silesian Voivodeship..
The manager of the entire project is Marta Febe Ręka. At the Gaudete Foundation, she is a volunteer and organizer of musical life. Currently a student of the organ class as. Daniel Strządała, MA at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He has been serving with his musical talent at the parish of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Będzin since 2019. She is a concert organist. As the artistic director of "Będzin Organ Evenings" he is also a performer of solo and chamber repertoire. She took an active part as a registrar and performer in the series of concerts "Szlakiem Siemianowickie Temples" as well as "Concerts in Bytkowski Duch".
The board of Będzin Organ Evenings also includes: Karolina Milena Wróbel - Clarinetist and composer. Magdalena Bąk - Violinist.
Urban Learning is project that gathered European organisations to exchange and good practice. What do human beings hope from their urban environments? One answer is spaces allowing them to engage in meaningful educational and social interactions and new experiences.
It is estimated that, by 2050, 6.5 billion people will be lived into urban centers around the world – that is two-thirds of the projected world population. Urbanisation tends to be debated in the frame of the negative side effects. As more and more people live in cities, every single aspect of our lives will be urbanized. Also, in a rapidly changing world, learning is required from everyone from cradle to grave. It is still quite a rare thing to hear about how urbanisation affects a particularly big issue of our era – learning. It is necessary Adult Education and Urban Learning. Cities are full of places of learning that most often go unrecognized.
Urban learning can take many forms and can happen in countless different places, but it is almost always first and foremost about learning together – mostly in a nonformal way. It is learning that happens when a lot of people are living side-by-side and are meeting other people to talk to or to do things together with them. In a way, urban learning is then at the heart of nonformal learning itself.
Urban learning, can also include fancy urban learning centers, casual encounters on a university campus, cafés that hold events, school trips in the urban environment and park, library, churches, street educators. Viewing the matter from the point of view of education then, the image of close urban learning community is quite the opposite of the much more often repeated pictures of loneliness, isolation and social malaise.
The project responds to the need to leave education outside training rooms. Human beings need: they look for spaces allowing them to engage in education and social interactions and new experiences. Whole city is a lifelong learning space.
The project is based on the needs of participating organizations and target groups:
- educators,
- parents.
The partnership consists organizations from: Poland, Portugal, Italy, Slovakia, Malta, Sweden. Project partnership are made up of organizations that are active in adult education.
The main objective of the project is to enable organizations to develop and strengthen networks, increase their ability to act at the transnational level, exchange good practices o subject: Urban Learning in Europe.
Specific objectives: - Exchange of good practices on the Urban Learning in Europe - Development of competencies of educators in the extended learning environment - Increasing the capacity to act at the transnational level.
The Results will be achieved during the project implementation: - Analysis in the spaces allowing to engage in education and social interactions and new experiences - in partner cities - Programs of local courses in extended learning environment - Serving all ages - Developing and improving partnership between partner organizations. - Strengthening the position of each partner organization in local and regional environments. - Improved quality competencies adult educators.
Project duration - 24 months. The project includes:- 4 Transnational Project Meeting, C - Short training programs, Management and implementation. The implementation of the project changes the reality, because it allows to gain knowledge and experience of partner organizations from European cities.
The project "Intergenerational Education for Social Inclusion - Learning solution" is necessary and important as demonstrated by the needs analysis. Thanks to it, key areas of the organization's activity have been identified that need improvement. These are the areas: Seniors - the need to expand the educational offer addressed to seniors in the field of intergenerational education. The problem is insufficient educational offer addressed to seniors in the area of intergenerational education. The need to engage in intergenerational education for all generations and thus open new areas of engagement of an educational, economic, cultural and spiritual character. It is necessary to update knowledge in a situation where Europe is changing in terms of demographic composition and faces challenges of intergenerational and intercultural solidarity.
The main goal of the project is to support the development of adult education staff in the area of education and intergenerational learning. The project implements the intention of intergenerational education, which seeks to establish formal and intentional communication activities between generations. Thanks to this, it is possible to derive mutual benefits and mutual enrichment.
Adequate project goals have been established:
1. Improving the competences of the organization's staff in the field of education and intergenerational learning.
2. Social inclusion of seniors through broadening the offer in the area of education and intergenerational learning.
The implementation of the project changed the situation by broadening the knowledge about creating an offer in the field of intergenerational education. There has been an improvement in the organization's activities in the field of innovative methods supporting intergenerational education. The applicant ensured good project management, which allowed for the high quality of the activities.
Two types of foreign mobility have been implemented.
1. Mobility - training at Wisamar Bildungsgesellschaft, Leipzig, Germany. Topic: Intergenerational education and learning. Training organized for 8 participants.
2. Learning mobility - training at the Centro Internazionale delle Culture Ubuntu, Palermo, Italy. The training organized for 8 participants contributed to meeting the identified needs.
The participants of the project were the staff, adult educators - employees and volunteers of the Gaudete Foundation.
Training topics: Improving knowledge in the field of intergenerational education and learning, Getting to know new teaching methods and using tools in adult education, Expanding knowledge in the field of - Intergenerational mentoring, Intergenerational learning of active European citizenship, Preparation of educational initiatives based on intergenerational education.
The proposed activities were to meet the needs by acquiring new knowledge in the field of intergenerational learning and education. The training allowed for the development of staff competences. The trainings contributed to the establishment and development of cooperation between organizations from Italy, Germany and Poland through the joint implementation of the project. Experience acquired and acquired competences were included in the organization's development plan.
UBUNTU - Palermo
Wisamar Bildungsgesellschaft, Lepizig