1. Work programme

After the approval of the project, there will be the first meeting with every local partner, in each region, to start with organising the responsibilities and programming the project’s activities. During this meeting, we will take decisions concerning the working groups, the basic events and the interface of the website. After the first meeting, individual meetings will be arranged for each local partner, in order to analyse the specific work that has to be done.

During the visits, there will be two more meetings of all partners, so that all parts will work together for the main purposes of the project.  Each hosting region will have organized some specific activities. The final meeting, in each region, will take place in May, in order to summarize, evaluate and disseminate the project.

1) Main activities planned

• Mobilities abroad to meet both regions and all organizations involved in the project;
• Survey conducted at the beginning of the project (diagnostics), a survey conducted at the end of the project (the project’s evaluation outcome);
• Self-assessments after meetings;
• Each region prepares video presentations about their own region;
• Common meetings among all local partners in order to organize, to evaluate and to disseminate the outcomes;
• Seminars, workshops and exhibitions in order to deepen the awareness of the participants about local art, fine arts and education in general;
• Activities that promote the integration of fine arts and task-based learning in the primary education;
• Teaching scenarios regarding the field of art education;
• Training art workshops designed for students (task-based learning);
• Seminar and workshops designed for teachers, in the field of art education;
• Organization of groups which will work upon different areas throughout the project;
• Visits to museums and workshops conducted by local artists;
• Art lessons and workshops at schools and museum;
• Publication of the events held during the project in the local media;
• Creation of a blog for all partners;
• Production of educational material;
• Development of a website with all project deliverables;
• Dissemination of results, in the region and between regions;
• Valorisation of results.

2) Outcomes/results foreseen

• A common website produced in order to publish all project’s activities and outcomes;
• A communication blog;
• A project logo;
• A multilingual glossary of visual art terminology;
• Art educational material for activities;
• Teachers’ training seminars and workshops;
• Students’ workshops;
• Teaching scenarios concerning art;
• Printed educational material concerning local artists;
• Video presentations about the cooperating regions;
• Presentations about local artists;
• A digital art guide as a part of the project’s website;
• A digital TV channel produced by students;
• A city map showing the existing art ateliers in a printed form;
• CD/DVDs containing bios and artworks of local artists;
• Drawing day event;
• Exhibition of students’ paintings in the local Museum;
• Calendar of 2014-2015 including students’ paintings;
• Project week;
• A two days final conference;
• Self-assessments;
• Questionnaires to assess the evaluation of the project.

2. Distribution of tasks

The COORDINATING REGION organizes and administrates all the activities of the project that will be hosted in Greece, in cooperation with Partner 2.

The special duties of the Directorate of Primary Education are:

• Coordinates and supervises the project;
• Motivates the school and museum staff, involved in the project activities;
• Organises the seminars, the workshops and the project week;
• Maintains contact with all organizations involved in the project;
• Facilitates the maximum number of participants in the project’s activities, from every partner’s side;
• Improves the cooperation between the educational department and organizations that promote education;
• Exchanges experience between of the colleagues of the partnership region;
• Ensures the exchange of experience among the partners involved in the project and the schools that are not involved in;
• Develops the website and the communication blog;
• Organizes activities of self-assessment and questionnaires for the evaluation of the project;
• Disseminates all the project activities, experiences and outcomes at every school in the Unit of Florina, in EST database and the mass media.
• Reserves of the necessary conditions for the hosting of the partner regions.

The Museum of Contemporary Art has the responsibility to:

• Provide the suitable environment for the students’ exhibition;
• Afford the appropriate material for the activities;
• Implement the educational program, in a pilot mode;
• Promote creativity and cultural education;
• Organize the drawing competition entitled “Florina seen through the eyes of children: visual creations”;
• Popularize the experience at the international meetings;

The Applied and Visual Arts Department (University of Western Macedonia, Greece) will:

• Be responsible for the bibliographic research which supports the project;
• Guide the workshops;
• Be responsible for the scientific material concerning the multilingual glossary of Visual Art terminology;
• Implement the educational program, in a pilot mode, in the museum;
• Prepare the teaching scenarios in cooperation with school teachers;
• Implement the educational material, in a pilot mode, at the 5th primary school.
• Develop new teaching methods in cooperation with teachers;
• Teach art through artistic activities.

The duties of 5th Primary School are:

• Cooperates with the Applied and Visual Arts department, in writing the multilingual glossary of Visual Art terminology (Greek - English - Latvia);
• Participates in the workshops provided;
• Prepares the teaching scenarios;
• Be the pilot school where the project activities will be implemented and evaluated;
• Be responsible for preparing power point presentations about local artists;
• Designs the projects’ logo
• Develops the digital art guide as a part of the project’s website
• Develops a city map showing the existing art ateliers;
• Creates a calendar of 2014-2015 including students’ paintings;
• Develop a digital TV channel produced by students.

REGION 2
The special duties of the Dobele County Education Department are:

• Motivates the county school and museum staff involved, in order to participate in project activities;
• Organizes meetings between regional organizations and project groups in order to discuss and evaluate the results of the project;
• Organizes questionnaires at the beginning and in the end of the project;
• Organizes seminars for the regional group in order to explore the experience of other counties in the field of project;
• Exchange of experience at the international meetings;
• Maintains contact with all organizations involved in the project;
• Supervises the activities, the coordination and the cooperation;
• Promotes and improves the cooperation among organizations that support education in Latvia and the partner region;
• Facilitates the maximum number of participants in the project activities, from every partner’s side;
• Improves the cooperation between the educational department and organizations that promote education;
• Explores innovative and efficient cooperative methods;
• Carries out the implementation of the new teaching materials;
• Exchanges experience with the colleagues of the partnership region;
• Ensures the exchange of experience among all the organizations involved in the project and the schools that are not involved in project;
• Organizes activities of self-assessment;
• Disseminates the project’s experiences in EST database and media.

The duties of Mezinieki Primary School:

• Produces educational material for school activities;
• Evaluates the course content in order to find out the students' level in art history, local artists and local heritage;
• Invites teachers to attend courses run by local artists in order to be aware of the new drawing techniques;
• Invites teachers to take part in activities, organized by the Dobele Local Museum and the Dobele School of Art;
• Encourages students to identify the regions’ cultural heritage through their artwork;
• Organizes the meetings among students, local artists and museum staff;
• Motivates students to participate in a drawing competition entitled "I draw my community";
• Enhances the use of new training materials and improves the idea of a drawing-art lesson;
• Motivates students to participate in the exhibition of students' paintings, hosted by the Dobele Local Museum;
• Creates the calendar of 2014-2015, including students’ paintings;
• Popularizes the experience of the international meeting;
• Promotes and improves the partnership among the educational organizations in Latvia and Greece.

The duties of Dobele Local History Museum:

• Creates educational material related to museum activities;
• Motivates teachers to explore region's cultural heritage and learn about local artists;
• Creates the map of the town showing the existing art ateliers;
• Increases the county students’ interest of visiting the museum;
• Motivates them to learn about local history;
• Encourages students to participate in creative activities organized by the museum;
• Develops new teaching methods in cooperation with the artists of the county;
• Teaches art history through artistic activities;
• Leads the workshops designed for students which take place in the museum and at school;
• Organizes the exhibition of students’ and local artists' drawings and paintings;
• Organizes a student’s drawing competition entitles "I draw my community", including the exhibition of the competition in the Museum;
• Popularizes the expertise of the Museum experience at the international meetings;
• Organizes museum visits to other districts, for teachers and students, in order to share their experiences.

The duties of Dobele School of Art:

• Creates material concerning art education;
• Guides some of the art workshops designed for teachers;
• Implements the educational program that will take place in the museum, in a pilot mode, along with the students of the school;
• Disseminates the expertise of the School of Art experience at the international meetings;
• Creates a multilingual glossary of visual art (Latvian - English - Greek);
• Creates CDs / DVDs about the local artists of the regions involved in the project;
• Develops new teaching methods in cooperation with the artists of the county;
• Teaches art through artistic activities;
• Leads the art workshops designed for teachers.

3. Project management and communication

• All participants (students included) get all information, related to the project from the very beginning;
• All contact persons will constitute a team that will supervise the project, facilitate the procedures, help the coordinating region and be in a direct communication with all parts involved;
• All meetings will be held either locally or transactionally;
• Regular and substantial communication with regional and local partners will take place through e-mails, Skype or common blog;
• Creation of a forum, with all members involved, in order to share the project’s experience;
• Keeping a diary of all the events that will take place, notes on how to proceed, errors and problems that occurred, in order to be evaluated during the meetings;
• Moderation of intraregional and interregional meetings;
• Taking the responsibility for organizing visits in the partner region;
• Ensure that all deadlines will be kept, as agreed;
• Understanding of the difficulties that may arise, try to overcome them, focusing on the preservation of the cultural diversity.