Our project will make a contribution to the European strategies for vocational training by integrating artistic exercises and experience with art processes into the training programme and thus promoting

• Attractiveness

  The communication from the European Commission "Education and Training 2010" as well as the "Strategic objective 2.2", call for ways of making learning more attractive in the vocational training and in the in-company training in general, in the teaching and training professions and for the integration of disadvantaged groups into education and training.

• Basic skills and entrepreneurship

  The "Detailed work programme on the follow-up of the objectives." (Eur.Comm. 2001) asks for an updating of the basic skills, covering also "social and personal competencies, including awareness of arts and culture" (p.8). The document also concludes that the concept of entrepreneurship should be understood in a wider context " - as an active and reactive spirit - something that society as a whole should value and invest in". Research has shown that the entrepreneurial competencies such as autonomy, creativity, risk taking and self awareness are competencies developed in art processes.

• Equal opportunities and social inclusion

  Looking at society at large, we have to realise the tremendous importance of the cultural dimension, where art in its widest sense makes an important contribution to the quality of life. We are convinced that in order to make this quality accessible and tailored to people with special needs, facilitating their learning and their work training, the vocational training for the health and social professions should include the competencies developed through the methodology of the threefold approach.