Aims and objectives

Aims of Eurpean Memories is to contribute, by means of autobiographical and historical methodologies, tools and activities, and the use of web technologies, to the development of social and civic competences of European citizens.

Operative objectives:

1. Create permanent tools, and in particular the European Memories, with a digital archive of stories of European citizens, in different digital languages (text, photo, audio and video format), and in the main European languages
2. Create adult education activities, through the telling of life stories, for the promotion of social and civic competences, through the consolidation, extension and qualification of a network of institutions, volunteer workers in the field of autobiography, memory, social work and language teaching and translation, for the purposes of interdisciplinary exchange and production and valorization of autobiographies and life stories.
3. To create products and activities of diffusion of the stories of European citizens (such as the European Autobiography Festival and the final project publication).

The project will involve a broad number of European citizens of every age and social condition, as well as a broad number of European organisations of Adult Education interested in the theme of memory and of the autobiographical methodologies as educational tool.

The project will create prducts and activities, as the European Competition, the digital Archive of European Memories and storytelling groups addressed to long-lasting activities.