Why this project?

The Covid epidemic has been the most shocking worldwide affair of recent times for all, but we have learned a lot from it: most of all that the most important thing is the cooperation and joint forces. There are certain groups of society who are affected much more severely by a crisis. They need help first of all.

The ARTcoWORKers project has already put it in its name: four countries WORKs together to help people with disabilities, using one of the most commonly understood and usable languages, the ART. In the meantime we are sensitizing to social inclusion and showing a new way for artists, cultural and creative industries who are also strongly affected in Covid, we will give skills to disabled people to find creative and innovative solutions against the risk of exclusion and isolation.

The project will produce four core outcomes:

1. The ARTcoWORKers Methodology
2. The ARTcoWORKers Learning Material and Learning Course for people with disabilities
3. The ARTcoWORKers Instruction Guide for Shadow Theatre
4. The digital ARTcoWORKers Platform/Tool Box

Our goal with all this is access to adult learning opportunities especially to digital learning, use arts and theatre play for self-representation for disabled people, better inform the public and decision-makers about the rights of people with disabilities, and new business and job opportunities in arts, culture and creative industry.

Who is behind the project? ArtCoWorkers is an international project from Germany, Hungary, Netherlands and Macedonia.

Roger Schmidtchen, project coordinator and chairman of the association VSBI from Erfurt, introduces the partners and their tasks in the project.