Plus Photo

Plus Photo is a non-formal education project to awaken and boost people's imagination and creativity through digital photography as a medium for personal development and social inclusion, with the...

Plus Photo is a non-formal education project to awaken and boost people's imagination and creativity through digital photography as a medium for personal development and social inclusion, with the following objectives: - Reintegrating personal experience in collective history and developing imagination and creativity as agents of social cohesion; - Improving basic and transversal competences (civic, intergenerational, intercultural, linguistic and communicational); - Improving the integrated use of digital devices and ICT; - Supporting the inclusion of target groups with fewer opportunities; - Recognizing the contribution of lifelong learning to personal fulfillment and community well-being; - Increasing the quality of the work, activities and practices of organizations and their staffs; - Building capacity of organizations to work transnational and across sectors; - Improving the competences of educators and other adult education staff, in general; - Supporting European citizenship and bringing the European dimension to the local level.

The Plus Photo project was implemented with four activities: 1. Designing the Curriculum - Conceptualisation, development and improvement, after testing, of a curriculum structured in four modules, with a flexible workload, easily adaptable to different contexts and participants, for which it presents alternative methods and activities. 2. Testing the curriculum - Six pilot experiments carried out by the three partners, in different countries and socio-cultural environments and with different target groups. Three workshops were planned in the application, but the beneficiaries decided to double the experimentation, with three more, to confirm the Curriculum's applicability and replicability. 3. Creating the Plus Photo website - Platform for free access <https://plusphoto.eu> to the Curriculum and learning materials, integrating photographs and the repository of the entire project, in four languages: English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. In addition, an Instagram account, @plusphoto_eu, was created for interaction and photo sharing. 4. Project management – Completely set of management of project, promotion and results sharing

1. Plus Photo Curriculum - A non-formal education curriculum structured in four modules, 11 units and 22 activities, with a flexible duration of 26 hours that can be adapted to different contexts and participants. The Curriculum is available for free under Creative Commons Licence, in four languages (English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese), on the project's website. 2. Plus Photo website <https://plusphoto.eu> offers the Curriculum free of charge, shows the photographs taken during the implementation of the project, includes a blog dedicated to the themes of the project, and is the base platform for the Community of Practice. 3. Plus Photo Instagram <@plusphoto_eu> shows and shares photographs taken during the implementation of the project, as well as those of its followers. The Instagram account extends the online public presence of the project and its photographic products. 4. Community of Practice - A community of practice for digital photography as a medium for personal development and social inclusion has been started, bringing together experts, non-formal education service providers and citizen photographers. It already has 10 organisations as associated partners and new members can join by writing to info@plusphoto.eu