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Name of the organisation(s): Barafunda, AJCSS Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation First name of representative: Sandra Last name of representative: Gonzaga Gender: Female Nationality: Portugal Function: Project management and trainer Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Rua Heróis do Ultramar n.º 34 Town: Benedita Postal code: 2475-150 Country: Portugal Direct Tel:+351 965 691 891 E-mail:europa@barafunda.eu Website:http://www.barafunda.eu
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“PONTO APRENDER” at Barafunda AJCSS´s headquarters, is a physical space (Barafunda backyard with outdoor spaces, kitchen, dining room and multipurpose rooms) and virtual (possibility of accompanying-participation in activities at a distance, upon prior registration).
Here, formal training (theoretical and theoretical-practical) and non-formal (workshops) intersect in the transfer of learning-knowledge-skills to young people and adults. From 10am to 07pm, the free access space operates: reading books, newspapers and/or using computers (internet), performing personal work, writing (life stories for skills recognition through the Centro Qualifica Barafunda , internet resources, etc.) The Qualifica Center processes formal training, taking place after working hours from 7pm to 11pm (subject to registration and subsequent referral based on the needs, likes and interests of each person - vocational orientation). At the same time, it's possible to participate in workshops (scheduled in quarterly plans, to meet the seasons, according to people's leisure and work life cycles).
The workshops add social innovation, include the reuse of household and business waste (fabrics, leather, synthetics, etc.), computer courses, sculpture, painting, theater, organic biological agriculture and permaculture, food confection - healthy and environmentally friendly food, with subsequent group tasting-sharing, trade fairs for used products, chi kung - adapting according to the actors' proposals(people in action).
It creates the space and time for involving and disseminating simple active practices that benefit people (physically, mentally and socially) and the natural environment, attracting people to want to know more, to seek for more qualifications and mobilize them to do formal training at Qualifica Cente.
By creating learning spaces that allow socialization-socialization being a learning process itself, Barafunda opens up and encourages openness with everyone, without discrimination
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Free access to the library space, computer monitored use observed by Barafunda´s team, who guide the reciprocal follow-up among people, promoting knowledge sharing and debate, with children's involvement, as well as young people and adults.
Computer workshops with qualified monitors minimizes digital exclusion, giving everyone the privilege of learning how to use a computer, making it possible to update information and help each other in writing texts - life stories, reports of work and leisure knowledge.
Free access to soils with the possibility of free cultivation for personal consume, schools involvement and participation in permaculture workshops (volunteers and paid trainers) are modes of environmental literacy and democratic experience. Spreading the concept of permaculture, organic gardening, regenerative agriculture and recycling, intersecting with the concept of healthy and environmentally friendly food. Food products are grown and meals are prepared and shared, monitored by professionals: agriculture, cooking, nutrition and health. One of the main purposes is to increase autonomy and learning by sharing is encouraged: handicrafts, sewing, theater, computer courses, chikung, educational animation, nature sports, sculpture, painting, portuguese for foreigners, etc.
The experiences, reported in texts, are proof of skills, and serve as a basis for certified learning-training - Qualifica Centre.
Qualifica´s Center territorial representation, leads to the enrollment of 35 people month (average). People seek to improve personal and professional skills, in order to improve their physical and social well-being. In response, partnerships are developed, ranging from business associations, local associations, schools, etc.
Considering the multiplier effects, we aim to create of a TV channel (WeB) and radio broadcast - extending information/opportunities to more people - quantity is also quality, when it expands democratic participation and citizenship.
Access to knowledge resources begins with equal opportunities to experience open access learning spaces, with diversified schedules and accessible to all.
The training proposals result from the individual´s expressed needs, in the welcoming interviews - vocational orientation - that take place whenever someone seeks Barafunda's services. People seek the association based on the knowledge of the services that are available: recognition, validation and certification of competences processes - Centro Qualifica (i); professional training courses within the national qualifications catalog (ii); and free time activities using workshops, (non-formal training), with children, young people and adults (iii). Depending on the school degree, professional skills and motivation, various proposals for training options are presented, as well as clarification of dates, hours and duration and certification-qualification attributes to be earned. Based on the motivations-needs expressed, new training proposals are formulated that seek to meet the interests expressed, the training proposals are disseminated on the association's social networks and personalized contacts are established to confirm registrations and start the training group.
In publicizing training offers and learning opportunities it is very valuable the public image and experience of Barafunda - the work carried out and its positive image, the free nature of the services provided, where mouth by mouth passage of the benefits and advantages obtained encourage new enrollments, the search for training proposals that are challenging in the face of to the integration needs of people, their empowerment and preservation of resource sustainability.
The transformation of the physical spaces, creating beautiful and peaceful spaces that influence people's well being and emotional welfare, through the participation in learning activities - formal and non-formal - is also one if the biggest objectives.
In order to provide its services free of charge, Barafunda uses support measures to formal training through the Portuguese State. However, the formal training model is not enough to attract and involve everyone, especially the economically, socially and culturally disadvantaged. Also the standard training programs are sometimes perceived as too theoretical and do not have the intended effects in minimizing consumerism and the preservation of the planet's resources - attracting people to look at what is close can be likely to improve the quality of life for everyone.
The experience in working with a diversity of people in multiple training-workshops and free access training rooms leads to the involvement of various age groups that support, complement and enrich each other – it molds and stimulates desires and with these, later, the demand to improve professional and/or school qualifications and also to change behavior with the creation of better personal well-being - physical, mental and social.
The creation of physical and entertainment spaces that enables intergenerational relationships, go beyond these places and are perpetuated in the community - difficulties when supported by relationships and interactions of physical, relational and knowledge proximity, generate expectations, senses of usefulness, spirit of mobilization , creation looking for information that qualifies the person, the search for the contradictory and the awareness of meanings in the face of the lived-experienced. In the proposals implemented in training-workshop groups, multiple opportunities are engendered and result in new proposals to be implemented using Barafunda facilities, the usufruct-exchange of proximity resources (buildings, soils, training rooms, equipment, seeds and sowing, organic material, volunteer time, educational-training support - spaces and times available and to be made available that go beyond Barafunda's resources.
Civil society and its dynamism in favor of the quality of life and sustainability of the planet is part of the statutory objectives of the association, the core motive of our activities. It is because of the people that Barafunda continues to attract and to improve its openness to the local context within the global. People look for us and we look for them by providing spaces and continuous training resources over time and in the physical proximity of their residence. We encourage itinerances (team displaces to peoples´s nearby facilities) by facilitating training in places where it is not possible for people to travel due to lack of transport, we provide open-door support services, from 10ham to 11pm, involving people from 6 to 75 years old. We go to meet the families who always request educational-training services that the formal education and training system does not provide and we seek the means of financial sustainability that allows support, with the specific training accordingly with the face of new needs. The openness to which are made possible in the permanent search for qualitative and quantitative improvement of resources - people - technical team and equipment, improved support spaces for people to meet in the exchange of knowledge-training and information, in the sense of knowing their potentialities and limits.
Means are encouraged - spaces and technicians - that enable people to intensify learning in sharing for sustainable development, integrating and mobilizing other civil society organizations with a view to making the region an empowering territory, by improving the natural and socio-economic surroundings, mitigating the difficulties arising from variations in human geography: death and regeneration of jobs-companies, needs for requalification, integration, fighting new poverty, aging of the population, support for immigration, monoparental families, employment-unemployment situations, low levels of schooling-training , etc
Barafunda is a non-profit, locally-based association that, since its origins (1980s) has sought to respond to the absence of the State (municipal and national) in supporting young people of school age and adults in their ongoing training and lifelong. It stimulated and still stimulates the creation of services - an open door to all - in search of answers to needs - individual and collective. From the creation of infrastructures (headquarters and training spaces) to the acquisition of equipment, activities are always based on the participatory dynamics of citizens. It is in mobilizing people for knowledge, lifelong learning, that participatory citizenship is made possible as a support for democracy.
It involves young staff with degrees in areas ranging from economics, sociology, information, technology, design, pedagogy, social education, teaching, sports, health. The multidisciplinarity supported by different areas of knowledge that allows flexibility responses, are streamlined and minimize the states of “anomie” . The present proposal aims to support activities that were previously launched however those available funds are not enough in order to maintain and improve qualitatively. The proposals presented here follow other previous motions in response to times of crisis – starting with the financial crises which creates a bigger gap between the state and it´s citizens, to the increased aging of the population, to the failure of companies that generate psychological and economic discomfort/unemployment , the health crisis, the emigration crisis and the immigration crisis, with the need to involve those who arrive and need to be integrated into the community. It is only by minimizing fears and discriminatory attitudes that we can fight against the new radicalizing phenomenon’s which are disrupting the democracy in Europe.
Working with local/regional/national/international stakeholders is one of core characteristics of Barafunda.
The succession of crises caused by humans in their difficulties of planetary integration, respect for cultures and the natural environment, imply a multidisciplinary view of phenomena and the need to resort to experts from various areas of knowledge in symbiosis with the knowledge of tradition. It is in this sense that the team of technicians who support Barafunda's activities cover fields ranging from social and human sciences, to computer technology, multimedia, architecture, painting, sculpture, health and the environment. It is in this passage of information and creation of workshops to meet and compare knowledge, that the most educated people join the community in training processes (formal and non-formal) in which everyone is in some way trainees and trainers, masters and apprentices. The consequences of climate change encourage the relocation of people, mobility being a constant in the global world and in a Europe weakened by war, and strongly marked by social and economic inequalities. Faced with these, it is through integration into democracy by active citizenship that we seek to contribute to mobilizing feelings of belonging to European citizenship. Reinforce the sharing between European projects and enhance financial and informational support that reflect the appreciation of ongoing work with communities and between European communities.
There are many training dynamics for the people and territories, but fewer are the training dynamics with the people and territories. It is in this sense of belonging and growth with everything and everyone, where anyone can be trainees and trainers, masters and apprentices, in order to find a purpose to be the difference they want to see in the world. In the awareness of processes, involvement grows and with it the knowledge made available and to be made available.
Creating training spaces that are an open door to everyone, without any type of discrimination or limits or time constraints, marks the new and innovative sense of valuing different types of know-how. However, the same implies access to decent resources ranging from ergonomic chairs and tables, to up-to-date computers with good communication networks, to a good team of technicians, trainers. Also, using games as a method and learning strategy, in which the relevance of this training is reinforced in the growing need that we all have to work on knowledge using the tools of manual work at distance.
The innovation is also anchored on the bases of connecting formal and nonformal learning activities, where each methodology reinforces the other, by involving, and valuing people's skills, motivating them for formal educational activities, that empower them in the process and its result. Also to refer, in the non formal training learning activities, the valuing and mobilization of local culture and traditions, interconnected with scientific and technological innovation, in processes of knowledge sharing and registration.
Replicating always presupposes adapting to contexts and adapting is not necessarily adopting. There is always a need to contextualize it in the face of multiple variables ranging from education level, qualifications, professions and even demographic variables. However, the “open door” methodology in which people know that they can go there and find ways of monitoring capable of supporting-guiding learning needs and still listening and mobilizing proposals for new and different forms, contents and training models - formal and non-formal - is possible to replicate. Innovation lies in being open to the other, to new challenges and to new types of knowledge and learning dimensions, so that there is a minimum capacity capable of meeting the costs inherent in space maintenance services and attracting trainers in the multiple areas of knowledge available and to create.
In the face of permanent uncertainty and change, alongside the insecurity(s) there is confidence (i) in the Barafunda team, which over the years has been renewed and sustained the functioning of training activities (formal and non-formal) even in the periods in which the Portuguese State, in its policy variation, withdrew funds for the recognition, validation and certification of school and professional skills. Secondly, there is the permanent offer of follow-up, guidance for people looking for all types of learning (ii). When Barafunda is unable to provide this training, referrals are made (through knowledge of regional and national educational-training realities), to other organizations and/or other territories that may be schools, professional schools, business associations, universities or others (iii ). Whenever training is within Barafunda's attributes and the resources to implement it are within reach, the team of trainers is mobilized in the different areas of formal training, in line with the national catalog of qualifications (iv) and when this does not include all the needs, dynamics of non-formal training are mobilized that stimulate and/or qualify in order to be able to later integrate formal training processes or other fields of recognition, validation and certification of skills (v).
The great challenges are those of knowledge that meets the relationship between humans, their ways of life without jeopardizing their survival with the destruction of the planet's resources - a local look to protect the global. It is in this challenge that the training proposals seek to be simple, practical and simultaneously empowered by the knowledge they provide. It focuses on the concern for soil regeneration, recycling and reuse and the appreciation of new lifestyles with less consumption. physical activity and healthy and environmentally friendly food quality (less meat consumption) and improvements in social well-being with the integration of all in order to mitigate discriminatory phenomena and xenophobia in order to be an inclusive Europe free from biases.
It enables the exchange of experiences and socializing, the exhibition of knowledge, exhibitions, conferences to mobilize skills and a taste for life with the encounter between people who share different cultures, and different ways of being, living, living together, consuming , produce and qualify. In intergenerational encounters - new and old, past and present, useful and futile, real and virtual, traditional and technological, near and far (...), when shared willingly and freely, they generate open and plural debate that converge to new meanings of well-being and sharing in citizenship with democracy and integration. In its 35 years of existence, Barafunda continues to intervene in the failures of the social system of integration and education in favor of the most disadvantaged, with 75% of the demand for services being women (subject to a greater workload) and half having schooling lower than secondary education. There is a growing demand for immigrants where the Portuguese language and gastronomy - healthy food and socializing around these are important integration factors to be accompanied by free access to the internet and informational exchange.
While everything transits, in traffic congestion of the planet, children, young people and adults arrive with words to recognize: ecology, sustainability, environment, recycling, democracy, equality and policies to make green and digital transition available to all. Do the years waste things? Words and words become words or buzzwords - what is the idea behind the words?
In the search we advanced in “Barafunda” for new stories, scenarios where words require hands and feet and body and sweat and heat, cold, sun, rain, and earth, soil, herbs, shrubs, trees, dirty, clean, death, regeneration, seed that nourishes and nourishes the body and (...) good mood. A simple state of mind, a “soul” accessible to all, right there in Quintal Barafunda and in the School Group with small gardens in permaculture. A sample of samples, a game of games, rehearsals of practices with nature. Catching tree branches at school, in the street, which fall due to the wind that blows, to create beds where sticks are transformed into soil that feeds the garden and makes it possible to make “healthy and environmentally friendly menus, is to make organic garden. To learn more about words and ideas, we researched experiences and replicated them in this real game of “Hands with a head” - we made menus taken from the internet and / or dictated by friends - in “PontoAprender” ideas take on shapes molded by hands, experiences that jump and jump to the tables of each one flying beyond the theoretical framework that underlies regeneration practices and citizenship.
Recovering feelings of belonging to the natural, social and socioeconomic environment, we re-establish the link between people and nature. Everyone is a crucial element in the construction of an active citizenship.
We believe that the whole turns out to be greater than the sum of the parts.
“Sustainability” is a key vector in all of our interventions, from formal to non-formal learning activities.
Keywords like citizenship, diversity, local and global impacts, individual responsibilities, natural resources, circular economy, holistic wellbeing, reuse and recycle, digital literacy, tradition and innovation and critical informed thinking, are transversal to all the implemented activities.
The complementarity of formal and non formal learning activities is essential to develop all of this skills that, integrated are essential in the empowerment of individuals in their responsibilities for local and global development and sustainability.
