Upter Progetto Grundtvig 2 Raccontare lEuropa Telling Europe

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Upter -Progetto Grundtvig 2Raccontare
lEuropa(Telling Europe)
Autobiographies, diaries and life stories that
give expression to a sense of belonging to
Europe.August 2004 July 2006
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Cities involved in the project
Participanting cities
Berlin
Pieve Santo Stefano
Vienna
La Rocha del Valles
Telling Europe
Roma
Melfi
Brussels
Lleida
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• Coordinator
• UNIVERSITA POPOLARE DI ROMA (The PEOPLES
  UNIVERSITY OF ROME) Italy, Rome
• The partners in the first year of the project
  (August 2004-July 2005) were
• FONDAZIONE ARCHIVIO DIARISTICO NAZIONALE ONLUS
  (National Diary Archives Foundation ONLUS)-
  Italy, Pieve Santo Stefano (AR)
• ARXIU DE LA MEMÒRIA POPULAR. LA ROCHA DEL VALLES
  - (Peoples Memory Archives of La Roca del
  Valles)- Spain, La Rocha del Valles
• HEIMATMUSEUM TREPTOW STADTGESCHITLICHES ARCHIV-
  Germany, Berlin
• The following joined the project in the second
  year (August 2005- July 2006)
• APA - ASSOCIATION POUR LAUTOBIOGRAPHIE ET LE
  PATRIMONIE AUTOBIOGRAPHIQUE DE BELGIQUE -
  Belgium, Brussels
• UNIVERSIDAD DE LLEIDA Facultad de Ciencias de la
  Educación. Departamento de Sociología
  (UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA- FACULTY OF EDUCATIONAL
  SCIENCES- SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT)- Spain, Lleida
• UNIVERSITÀ POPOLARE DI MELFI (POPOLAR UNIVERSITY
  OF MELFI), Italy, Melfi.

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Description of the project
General aim To bring together institutions
working in the field of adult education and
cultivation of memory

• Contribution to the building of shared historical
  knowledge starting from the real stories of real
  people who have lived and are living in Europe.

• Active citizenshipValorization of the personal
  experiences and stories of European
  citizenspromotion of a sense of European
  citizenship through the narration of individual
  stories

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Specific objective

• to bring to the surface experiences and
  individual events which have given form and
  substance to our feeling European.
• All the possible meanings which the idea of
  Europe takes on for the individual political and
  economic, cultural and artistic, geographical,
  etc.

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One of the questions on which we worked
What events in our lives have contributed to
creating a sense of Europe in us? And in what
does this feeling of Europe consist? We looked
for the traces of those experiences and way of
thinking in personal writings and stories

• Memory archives writings going back to a time
  when Europe did not yet exist, since this is
  often material written before the advent of the
  European Union

• Interviews and collections of life stories
  present-day stories of people who feel European

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• We are discovering a fascinating invisible
  Europe, which corresponds to those experiences
  which are at the origin of feeling European
  travel, friendships, job-seeking, love

• And also experiences connected to the great
  historical and political events which have swept
  over Europe

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Adults involved in the participating
institutions as students, teachers or employees.
Participants
Group activities
autobiographical and biographical research
(historical research as well)
translation of the texts into the languages of
the project.
The groups worked in their place of
residenceThey come together periodically in
trans-national meetings.
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What we have achieved

• Development of a shared work methodology
• Production of autobiographical writings on
  personal experiences of Europe, on themes such as
  Narrating Europe through an Object, or Feeling
  European
• Interviews, seeking particularly significant
  stories about feeling European
• Research in the archives of personal writings
  (diaries, autobiographies, letters) seeking
  stories of life experiences connected to the idea
  of Europe or feeling European
• Translation of the most significant texts into
  Italian, German and Spanish, French (in the
  second year)

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• Research of a historical and cultural nature on
  Europe
• We participated in a European conference on the
  methods of qualitative research in sociology
  (ESREA Conference)
• We participated in the prestigious National Diary
  Prize of Pieve Santo Stefano, in Italy with a
  conference on the project
• We have begun building the project site,
  www.europestories.org
• We have launched the European Autobiographical
  Competition Narrating Europe, which each
  partner is publicizing in their own country, but
  which is open to all European citizens.

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Results obtained so far

• We are expecting three further trans-national
  meetings
• We are developing a theatre workshop Narrating
  Europe which will lead to a performance at the
  final event
• We will collect the most significant stories in
  an anthology which will illustrate the many forms
  in which Europe lives in the hearts and minds of
  individuals. The anthology will be written in
  Italian, German, Spanish, French.
• We will fine-tune the site as a tool for the
  dissemination of this material
• We will organize both a trans-national event and
  a series of local events.

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Europe cannot be built in a day, nor will it be
built all at once, but it will rise from the
concrete actions which lead above all to true
solidarity (Schuman 9
May 1950)This is the direction in which this
project is going
www.europestories.org
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Telling EuropeThe European sentiment in
personal storiesEuropean competition connected
to the Grundtvig 2 Telling Europe Project
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Have there been moments in your life when you
particularly felt a sense of belonging to Europe?
These might be experiences connected to
encounters, travels, political or social events,
etc.

• And in what does this feeling of Europe consist
  for you?

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Try to narrate this through one of these types
of forms of personal writing

• An autobiographical piece
• A letter to an imaginary or real person
• Or you can record the story of a person you
  believe has this feeling of Europe in a
  particular or original way

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• The competition is open to persons of all ages
  and nationalities, and is free of charge
• It is possible to participate in only one of the
  countries (independently of ones residence),
  and the text must be in the language of the
  country in which one is competing
• Only one text can be entered in the competition
  the written texts cannot be longer than three
  pages (30 lines or 1800 characters per page) and
  must be previously unpublished
• The compositions must be sent in by 30 January
  2006.

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Competition procedure and Prizes for the
winnersFirst level of selection
NationalSecond level of selection
EuropeanThe final prize is the publication of
the winning stories in a European anthology
translated into the languages of the
participating countries and distributed in each
one of them.All the stories entered will be
conserved in the archives of the individual
organizations and in the general project archive.
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Upter -Progetto Grundtvig 2Raccontare
lEuropa(Telling Europe)Autobiographies,
diaries and life stories that give expression to
a sense of belonging to Europe.August 2004
July 2006