By Cyril Dworsky & Chris Gary on 20.04.2010 18:50 tagged with brussels declaration extending partnerships mentoring partnerships poverty social exclusion video.
Participants from fourteen different coutries gathered in Brussels / Belgium to work on strategies and perspectives how Children's Universities can contribute to combat poverty and social exclusion.
Thanks to the intense working of all participants all day and the pleasant hosting by the Wien Haus (the Vienna Regional Office in Brussels) a major statement of EUCU.NET was verbalized. The EUCU.NET Declaration on Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion is aimed as part of a mission statement for Children's Universities organizers. We kindly encourage you to promote the Declaration text on your websites and to point out the underlying EUCU.NET approach for the EY2010. All EUCU.NET partners are also entitled to attach the official EY2010 logo on their websites - to let as many people as possible know about the relevance of Children’s Universities in this regard. (Please note the legal notice of the European Commission)
EUCU.NET also greatly appreciates any attempt to put the Declaration’s keywords into concrete action. If you intend to realize specific measures which are in accordance with the principles and objectives of the Declaration, please let us know. Specific action by EUCU.NET partners will be announced on the EUCU.NET website in 2010.
At the same time, you may propose certain activities to your National Implementing Body (NIB) responsible for the EY2010 in your home country. In return, their acknowledgement might add quite some official recognition to your own Children’s University.
To spread the idea even further, we kindly invite you to translate the Declaration text into your national language and submit your translation in due time. The aim is to compile a repository of the Declaration in as many European Languages as possible! This would add even more European value to the EUCU.NET approach of combating social exclusion. (Available translations)
After the fruitful workshop with many contributions from our network partners EUCU.NET organized also a "micro" Children's University for local kids from Brussels. We had a very nice programme with music and experiments. First world-known thereminist Pamelia Kurstin played with the children - in fact children did like it so much that Pamelia barely had a chance to play a longer piece for the audience.
The theremine play was followed by a hand-on performance with Sofia Svarna from the Department of Music Studies, University of Athens. Her basic idea was "the experience of the CIRCLE OF THE WATER in a musical-performative-improvisational way"
The children performed the narrative, using elements of body percussion (tapping fingers, clapping, stamping, mouth sounds etc), balloons and chopsticks. Sofia demonstrated us quite vivid that "The performance experience (or power) of the participating children and adults nourishes and raise their imagination, their collaborative spirit, personal expectations, confidence and contributes to the collective memory, action etc. It is an important concept to incorporate not only music and other forms of art to the CU concept, is that arts safeguard the development of “emotional intelligence” of children."
Finally the children (and adults) had the chance to try out experiments directly at the Wien Haus itself. A combined tutor team from Bucharest, Tübingen and Vienna worked with the kids on "scientific principles of water, fire and ice and many more".
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