| ProjectDescription | Background
The policy agenda of sustainable development highlights to launch new strategies for promoting activities of sustainable development on all administrative levels of the society. To promote psychosocial well-being lies very near of the concept "to promote social and cultural sustainable development". Promotion means the creation of opportunities for improving people’s living conditions and quality of life by means of reinforcing the resources and coping possibilities of the individual and the community. Own language and culture are the most important grounds for individual's cultural identity and well-being. Therefore it is important to reinforce and find new creative innovations how Sami languages and cultures could be used more as daily resource for children in educational processes of the community.
As one base of the SamiArctiChildren project idea is the ArctiChildren projects which have had as a goal since 2003 to develop a cross-border network model and create new working methods for improving the psychosocial well-being, social environment and security of school-aged children in the Barents region. In the last ArctiChildren project 2006-2008 there was as a base a question: “how school teachers can improve children’s well-being through school education”. Now, in this preparatory project it is aim to continue development work for Sami children’s well-being by starting cross-border discussion and planning process as a base a question: “how Sami stories/narratives could be as psychosocially and culturally supportive learning material in the Sami communities in Sweden, Norway, Russia and Finland”.
Objective and aim
The overall aim of the preparatory project:
- to implement through cross border collaboration a planning process for turning the Sami ArctiChildren Project Application (Sami Stories/Narratives as Psychosocially and Culturally Supportive Learning Material in the Sami communities in Sweden, Norway, Russia and Finland) to the financiers, Interreg IVA North, Sami sub-programme by November 30th, 2009.
The specific objectives of the preparatory project:
1. More detailed information available how to take advance of Sami stories/narratives as resource of learning material to promote psychosocial well-being and cultural identity in educational processes at the Sami communities.
2. Through cross-border planning collaboration to find elements needed of a good project plan (interest group analysis, problem analysis etc.) for the final project application.
3. The final project application of the Sami ArctiChildren Project 2010-2013 followed through
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