Workshop in Mérida (National Museum of Roman Art) Pictures

Workshop in Mérida (Group at the Parliament of Extremadura)

Workshop in Mérida (Spain) PICTURES

WORKSHOP IN MÉRIDA (Spain)

CULTURAL CROSS-BORDER WORKSHOP

Encouraging people to know our neighbours

Mérida (Spain)

27^th -28^th October 2011

27^th October 2011

Place: Regional Parliament of Extremadura (PlazaSanta Clara, 5)

10.00 Workshop

Topics:

• Cross border Initiatives Office

Montaña Hernández Martínez. Head of the Cross border Initiative Office (Regional Government of Extremadura)

• Learning the language of our neighbours

Lígia Borges. Portuguese teacher

• Ágora, the Peninsular Debate. History of a project

Javier Figueiredo. Cross border Initiative Office

Coffee break

• Portugal in the cultural policy of Extremadura

Marta Sofia Maia. Investigator (University of Minho, Portugal)

• Coming back to school. Senior University
• Learning in network. The experience of Popular Universities
• Debate

14:00 Lunch

15:30 Departure to the monumental city of Cáceres

16:30 Arrival and reception in the Town Hall of Cáceres and guided visit to the Medieval Town

19:30 Return to Mérida

28^th October 2011

9:30 Following meeting:

Place: Museo Nacional de Arte Romano

- Dates for the following workshops.

- Newsletters and dissemination actions.

- Reports and other questions.

10:00 Lusitania, a common Roman past of Spain and Portugal. Recent activities on cross border cooperation

10:45 Guided visit to the National Museum of Roman Art and Roman Monuments.

13:00 End of the workshop

Promoting multilingualism in Europe

www.poliglotti4.eu is a project promoting multilingualism in Europe - the result of the deliberations of the EU Civil Society Platform on Multilingualism. This website reports on best practice in language policy and language learning, and provides policymakers, teachers, learners and civil society organisations with a powerful toolkit for benchmarking and enhancing their activities in non-formal and informal education and learning sectors. The project is funded through the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.

Gallery: Following meeting in Kavala (Greece)

Gallery: Workshop in Kavala, 1st and 2nd September 2011

Cultural Cross-border Workshop in Kavala, Greece

Cross-border Initiative Office of Extremadura publishes a book about Potuguese cinema

The Cross-border Initiative Office of the Regional Autonomous Government of Extremadura has added a new title to its collection created in order to spread Portuguese culture among adult population in Extremadura. General Scene of the Portuguese Cinema is the title of this book written by Angélica García Manso (Cáceres, Spain 1981), doctor of Art’s History at Universidad de Extremadura, who defended the first thesis about Portuguese cinema in Spain and published a monograph about the Portuguese director João César Monteiro.

This is the third book of this collection edited by the Cross border Initiative Office, after having published History of the Portuguese Painting (1800-1940) and Brief History of Portugal. This collection was created to spread among adult population, especially those learning Portuguese language, the culture of neighbour country.

1st Workshop - 18th-19th novembre 2010

Fundação Eugénio de Almeida organized the first workshop of SCULTBORD Project, in Évora, 18th and 19th november 2010. The workshop had 19 participants from Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Romenia, Greece, Portugal and Spain.

Representants of all the partners have joined to debate how can heritage and cultural issues can contribute for social cohesion of border territories, this was the goal of the event. The long life learning experiences programme in this fields has also been theme of the discussion. Subprogramme Grundtvig action included workshops that brought together individuals or small groups of learners (10-20 people) from several countries for their personal development and learning needs. Learners were also encouraged to share their competences and insights with others.

This workshop started with a visit to “Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC)” in Badajoz, Spain. MEIAC is situated on the area of the former prison of Badajoz, which was constructed in the middle fifties in the place of a former military fortification, called Fuerte de Pardaleras, and built in the 17th century. In spite of the fact that it had been completely demolished before the prison was built, the fortification was located in a very strategic position, and constituted one of the most important defensive emplacements of the Vauban fort system that surrounded the city.

After lunch, the participants visited “Espaço do Tempo” in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal. “Espaço do Tempo” is a cultural organization promoted by the internacional choreographer and cultural manager Rui Horta. Espaço do Tempo it’s a trans-disciplinary arts organization that supports various Portuguese and foreign contemporary performing artists. Its headquarters is located in a convent, the Convento da Saudação (Salutation’s Convent), a national monastery from the 15th century based in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal.

In the second day the workshop was promoted by António Camões Gouveia, Evora Museum Director, who has a Degree in History, Post-Graduate Studies in Cultural and Political History and he is Doctorate in History and Theory of Ideas, expert in the History of Social Ideas, from the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Rui Horta choreographer and cultural manager, artistic director of “Espaço do Tempo” in Montemor-o-Novo.

In the afternoon the group visits the Evora Museum, and the new heritage projects of the Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Cultural and Art Centre and Eugenio de Almeida’s House Museum.

Learning Portuguese

This is one of the spots encouraging adult people in Extremadura (Spain) to learn Portuguese. This young man tell us why he decided to learn Portuguese and how it became a very successful option.