About project The project explores the value of heritage highlighting common themes and practices, allowing participants to share and learn from each other. It will develop, by emphasising personal tradition & culture, a sense of pride & belonging, of personal status and well-being. Partners will engage those who have been part of disappearing 'received traditions and practices' - rural, urban, industrial, social, creative, constructional and ceremonial - to share and record their experiences.

Partners Turkey: Mehmet Akif Ersoy Public Education Centre and Evening Craft School Italy: Comune di Spilinga Poland: The Mine of Art Association Romania: The Association for Enhancing Educational Initiatives AEEI UK: Pathways: Inspirational Development C. I. C. (coordinator)

Summary of local activities Their aim is create educational and community activities that will support and promote an aspect of declining local heritage like: Turkey: traditional creative craft-work (weaving) Romania: industrial transport (railways) Italy: rural technology (water-mills) & environmental protection Poland: heavy industry & mineral extraction (coal and steel) UK: rural entertainment (pubs and social gatherings)

Wales Pathways I.D C.I.C., UK, project coordinator: based in the deeply rural English - Welsh border region. The project work promoted by the UK partner is to encourage community development through exploring traditional pub games.

A games evening was held at the Castle Hotel, Bishop’s Castle in November 2012 & attracting a range of people who were new to the group’s activities. A small team of Pathways volunteers organized and advertised the event introducing a wide range of traditional pub games and other board games that were once popular winter evening entertainment.

Italia The goals of our project are making paths which it is easy to walk on, involving different associations, trying to create a open route to all those who want to visit the mills, and relive the customs and activities of at least two centuries ago.

In the valley there are the ruins of 9 mills: ancient centers of meetings, exchanges and work. The mills had enormous importance for the economy of our area until 1959 when, because of the flood of Fiumara (small river) were severely damaged, they were abandoned and the brambles and ivy covered them. Hence the idea to bring them to light, to advertise, to make useable routes respecting nature.

Poland The aims and goals of the Mine of Art Association for this project were: helping people, especially older people, open their memories by understanding local heritage activation and integration of the local people in caring fot their industrial heritage supporting social activity of the people to help them see a future which recognises their past undertaking activities for the revitalization of the historic industrialized buildings protection and promotion of cultural and technical heritage, especially in the range of the conservation of the historic values of the coal mining

Workshop Communication and Autopresentation Techniques

INDUSTRIADA Industriada - the feast of the Industrial Monuments Route of the Silesian Province is a one-day festival held once a year in June, in the industrial sites located within the Silesian Province. This is an exceptional day when “technology attracts people” and industrial spaces are filled with diverse events. On this one Saturday in June not only enthusiasts of industrial monuments have the opportunity to discover how interesting the industrial heritage of our region is. Industriada comprises numerous concerts, spectacles, artistic performances, exhibitions, happenings, shows and different competitions and creative workshops engaging mostly children and youths and lasting from the morning until late night hours.

Industrial Monuments Route The Industrial Monuments Route is a thematic, tourist car route, connecting sites related to the industrial heritage of the Silesian Province. Currently, it is composed of 36 sites. This route is a brand tourist product (area network product) presenting the major and most interesting in terms of tourist, historic and architectonic values industrial sites in the Silesian region.

The feast of the Industrial Monuments Route this is a total of a few hundred hours of exceptional events prepared specially for this day, held from Częstochowa, through Upper Silesia and Zagłębie Dąbrowskie, to Beskidy Mountains. Exciting atmosphere and a unique occasion for a great fun result in the fact that year after year Industriada attracts more and more people. Video invitation: _embedded&v=Smj9AElL8hk

Romania Retro-soiree – non-formal social event with former employees of Nicolina factory. Interviews, memories, impressions, lost identities (workers neighborhood, workers community, ‘golden communist era’, etc.) Projection of a non-formal monographic material for the ‘industrial area’ Iasi and for the Nicolina factory (book)

Research in the local archives for documents, memories, valuable parts of the recent history Collecting oral stories and materials from existing group of former employees The program “Time for everything” – meeting between youngsters of Nicolina school and old former employees of Nicolina factory. Non-formal meetings between old teachers and young teachers

Turkey Alaca weaving course started in October 2011 especially for unemployed and disabled women. Last year course closed up in May Alaca weaving course started again in December During courses learners are learning alaca weaving and also they are selling them.

At the end of this project Turkish team also intend to increase the self esteem of these women and make them feel better while not only expressing themselves but also bringing their cultures to other nationalities.