EUF - engaging and empowering EU Families through storytelling, digital guide and card game
▶Summary
By implementing EUF “engaging and empowering EU Families through storytelling, digital guide and card game” the partnership aimed primarily at the development of effective communication between pa...
▶Objectives
By implementing EUF “engaging and empowering EU Families through storytelling, digital guide and card game” the partnership aimed primarily at the development of effective communication between parents and children. With EUF the partnership wanted to design a path of non-formal, inclusive education, to respond to the need of reinforcing family life skills and to train parents to manage original user friendly digital communication tools. EUF supported parents with fewer opportunities in their educational function strengthening their active role in the community. We add that EUF was aimed at families at risk of social exclusion, for which being reached by the project meant access to an educational path that increase the potential for social inclusion. EUF was based on the idea that “Investment in all families, complemented by targeted support for the most vulnerable families at risk of exclusion, is a fundamental building block of cohesive societies” as stated by Eurochild (Oct.2012)
▶Activities
EUF involved fragile target groups in collecting experiences and communication strategies with children. The following activities were implemented: A1. STORIES-GALLERY. Let’s talk about it. Communication stories between parents and children Output1: STORIES-GALLERY. A2The GUIDE. Let’s find our way: guides to be informed and able to orient themselves in effective communication with children - Output2: THE GUIDE A3. The CARD GAME. Let’s play. EUF card game for exploring communication styles between parents and children - Output 3: CARD GAME. B1. EUF first project meeting. "Strengthen EU cooperation among partners through EUF" Venue Italy. I Project meeting (blended activity) in Rome B2. EUF second project meeting."EU Values and family empowerment: Evaluation and EUF sustainability ” Venue Greece . C1. LTT-EU Family as a learning space: learn by experience. The contribution of the Erasmus+ program for parental education and family empowerment. PT D1. EUF international final meeting - "Engaging families: a healthy empowerment through story telling, digital guide and card game". Hybrid activity - Greek Carers Network EPIONI. The project management activity was conducted effectively.
▶Impact
Three user-friendly outputs for effective parents/children communication were the main EUF results. 1.EUF STORIES GALLERY collects 80 photos, 30 sentences from interviews with target groups. Available in GR IT EN PT on https://sites.google.com/view/euf-gallery/euf-photo-gallery as “photogallery” and in 5 mini videos on https://sites.google.com/view/euf-gallery/euf-videos-from-photos-collection. 2.EUF GUIDE for effective communication between parents and children available for free on https://sites.google.com/view/euf-gallery/euf-guide full version in EN (77pp), 4 shorts ones in IT, GR, PT and EN (35pp) 3.EUF CARD GAME “print and play”, 35 cards + 5 limitations cards, 2-5 players, 11-99 years. Available for free in IT, GR, PT and EN at: https://sites.google.com/view/euf-gallery/euf-card-game All linked to strengthened empowerment of parents and involvement of fragile families, improving ability to communicate with children, greater awareness of parents for inclusion; to EUF involvement in EU family networks. To better disseminate the project EUF partnership set up the EUF website https://sites.google.com/view/euf-gallery/euf-the-project All the EUF’s outputs are collected in it, together with the main info on the project.