This project deals with two dimensions of creative recycling, Occasional creative recycling and Projectual creative recycling. Occasional activity relates with recycling and reusing with no project behind. Projectual creative recycling is a systematic activity of recycling and reusing.

This is an Erasmus+ project in Adult Education section, with participation of 6 Organizations from Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania and Albania. Our partners in this project are OIKIPA, PROMIMPRESA, DIEK Agriniou, AESD.

The project focuses on the following priorities:

• Skills development and inclusion through creativity and arts
• Environmental and climate goals
• Supporting the setting up of and access to upskilling pathways

RecyclART develops creative skills of Long-term unemployed adults They are encouraged to use waste materials by using skills such as problems solving, thinking creatively, gaining aesthetic value, self- evaluating and self-recognition. Art therapy methods are promoted, to include communities at risk of marginalization. Adult educators using creative methodologies and artists working or having worked with recycling and realisation of new objects using waste are involved to mentor adult learners.

ReclyART will reach the Long-term unemployed adults through job centres and relevant services supporting access to the labour market.

Recycling activities especially through Art can create a strong base for social enterprises, which main aim is address challenges through an enterprising approach. The challenge of unemployment among Adults can be addressed to include in the labor market the communities at risk and marginalization. Through the activities one of the aims is to create employment, but especially in terms of Social entrepreneurs who can be agents of positive change. In case of recycling through art, the unemployed adults will develop businesses which trade for an environmental purpose. They learn through RecyclARt how to create jobs and bring hope to our most disadvantaged communities, delivering social, environmental

and economic value. Through their innovative approaches to reduce inequalities, social enterprises in recycling, might even provide a model for rebalancing the control of money and power in the recycling industry.

In this aspect, the project not only delivers the adequate trainings, but especially fosters new method for recycling using ART:

1. Support training activities to raise their creativity through recycling activities, in order to develop fundamental skills to re-enter the job market;
2. Enhance the sense of initiative, sense of responsibility, self confidence and self-efficacy of the unemployed through the training activity in order to stimulate their commitment.These are also skills related to entrepreneurship.
3. Give Innovative approach among partners and adult learners to recycling and reusing activities;
4. Give tools and key competences related to “projectual creative recycling”
5. Supply Learning materials to foster the improvement of skills on the topic of projectual creative recycling

Involvement in the project is fundamental for our ability and expertise in realizing studies and researches, seminars and trainings that contribute in creating innovative models and designing and supporting sustainable policies in local and central levels.

• Deliver the study on “Best practices on “ocasional creative recycling” among ADULT PEOPLE”, - ALBANIA Report
• Research in Social Enterprise issues related to recycling through Art
• Offering new knowledge to public sector, to improve strategies related to employment and social enterprise in field of recycling
• Foster some expected outcome such as increase of businesses in the field of recycling through art, increase of social impact
• Raised participation of young people in actions related to environmental protection through training in projectual creative recycling through art.
• Dissemination of outputs of the project through the newsletter
• Foster networking and partnership among partners in the days of
Transnational Project Meeting in Albania.
• Creating the next generation leaders in Social enterprises, civil society and governing through environmental issues discussion and especially on recycling

• Intellectual Output 1, the study on occasional recycling in Albania and EU countries
• Intellectual Output 2, in process
• LTTA – training activity

The project is ongoing and ends in March 2023. Even after the project there are plans for the sustainability of the project. The project will involve local/regional/multinational companies in the mainstreaming strategy with the aim of increasing the project’s effectiveness in the implementation phase and developing a sustainability strategy; in the long term, these stakeholders will benefit of more skilled trainers/artists/workers and of procedures/schemes/habits that link them to the environmental need of local/regional territories.

• Local and regional employers will be able to enjoy a new workforce that has developed creative skills that can be used both in the recycling and in the field of work problem solving.
• But moreover more entrepreneurs in the field of social enterprise will be present in the market.