The Heritage and Adult Education

In both Romania and Croatia there are hundreds of museums and thousands of organizations operating in the cultural sector and carrying out educational activities. Their target audience is usually formed by the students and the "hard core" of connoisseurs, in terms of attracting adults to activities, including low-opportunity categories, being recorded only timid attempts. In addition, although in the museum area is a long and rich in national and international collaboration in the field of cultural heritage exchanges and traveling exhibitions, we do not know, so far, about an initiative that would bring up the issue of collaboration in the field of adult education. Moreover, in the Romanian case, there are just 6 museum that have implemented E+ adult education (AE) projects, all of them being focused on the collaboration with AE providers and NGOs, not on collaboration with other museums in order to exchange good practices acquired and developed into this field. Therefore, our initiative comes with the idea of collaboration at an EU scale among museums (not leaving aside other types of organizations) in the field of AE, using the cultural heritage as a resource, the base need for the partners being to adapt their educational offer

The initial objectives (general and the SMART ones) were totally achieved: - Increasing the organizational capacity of the partners. - Increasing the level of transferability of methods and good practices, developed by the 2 promoters, within the cultural institutions of the partner countries, through transferability events. - Increasing awareness on equality, non-discrimination and social inclusion, on heritage related activities, but also on the E+ for a minimum number of 20.000 adults. - Increasing the visibility of the promoters. - SO1: Increasing the organizational capacity of the 2 partners, by raising the competences of 10 members of staff that will be involved in organization of 2 bilateral mobilities, transferability events and publishing a guide/magazine, during 14 months of implementation. - SO2: Increasing the level of transferability of methods and good practices in the area of adult education. - SO3: Increasing awareness on equality, non-discrimination and social inclusion, on heritage related activities, but also on the funding program. - SO4: Increasing the visibility and the capacity of promoters by establishing, strengthening, continuing and expanding an international partnership in the field of adult education.

Within the project "The Heritage and Adult Education" were proposed and carried out the following activities: A1.1. Mobility in Zagreb, 27th of June – 2nd of July 2022 (6 days). A1.2. Mobility in Bucharest, 19th – 24th of September 2022 (6 days). A2.1. Transferability event in Zagreb, 14th-16th of November 2022 (3 days). A2.2. Transferability event in Bucharest, 14th-16th of November 2022 (3 days). A3. Online conference, 3rd -4th of April 2023 (2 days). A4. Editing the magazine “Heritage & Education”, 17th of November 2022 - 30th of April 2023 (a bulletin, edited and printed online and offline, containing 23 works in 128 pages). A0. Promotion, dissemination and partnership enlargement, 1st of March 2022 - 30th of June 2023 (+ 6 additional days of offline transferability, enlargement and dissemination activities, 3 in Zagreb and 3 in Bucharest, June 2023).

The project has the following results: • 12 days of bilateral activities, involving 81 individuals from eight organizations. • Three days of transferability events held simultaneously at the MNIR and AMZ (over 250 participants). • The online conference "Heritage Education in a museum context, with 27 lecturers from seven museums participating. A total of 113 conference attendees were recorded. • A publication, "Heritage and Education Bulletin," ISBN 978-973-0-38372-0, edited and printed in 500 copies, distributed for free in Romania and Croatia, as well as online on the websites of the two partners. • Four museum education programs, analyzed, rebranded, and integrated into the educational programs of the two partners. • Dissemination, transferability, and sustainability events. • 10 members of the partners' staff directly involved, and having the opportunity to develop their personal and professional competencies. • Over 500 participants were engaged in the project's activities, and several hundred thousand citizens were informed about the project, partners activities, adult education domain, and the funding program.