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Cultural Migration in Autobiography Grundtvig Partnerships 2009-2011

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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Reinhard Nowak

The Project „Cultural migration in autobiography“is financed by the European Commission within the Lifelong learning programme.

The partners of the Project are from six European countries: Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania. The history and quantity of migration differs very much in these countries. Immigration happens because of economic reasons and there are also refugees and expatriates; migrants belong to first, second or third generation. The partner‘s institutions are:

Gmünder VHS, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany (coordination) Libera Universita per Adulti, Faenza, Italy (design)

Krakowska Szkoła Zarządzania i Administracji, Kraków, Poland (website, e-book, photoalbum) Institutul Roman de Educatie a Adultilor, Timisoara, Romania (editing and publication of booklet) Escola Secondaria D. Sancho I, V. N. Famalicao, Portugal Malpils Pagasta Padome, Malpils, Latvia

The project extended over two years and there have been four transnational meetings in this period: 2009 Schwäbisch Gmünd, 2010 Faenza, Malpils, 2011 Famalicao. In every institution, there existed a group of writers with a tutor specialised in creative writing. Goals

Autobiographies are an important medium to understand migration and the changing between different cultures.

Europe learns through autobiographies about its present situation and the citizens of Europe learn themselves about the diverse cultures within the continent and gain respect towards them.

Exchange between the groups of writers will help to gain a professional view on cross-cultural creative writing and to foster the awareness of cultural differences. Products

The publication contains more than thirty stories and it can be found at http://cma.internetdsl.pl