Learning, Training & Teaching activites

The first Learning/Teaching/Training activity took place in Granada from June 1 to 3, 2022 . The primary goal of the event was to contextualize the map of European resilience within the current realities of the pandemic, virtual environments, and our organizational processes. Participants explored current trends in resilience, work and discussed strategies for implementing RESUPERES across different partner countries. To achieve this, a series of workshops and seminars on trends in resilience, were conducted by professional experts in the field, as described below:

1. Trends and Updates on Resilience in European contexts
2. World Café for teams working in resilience-related areas (artistic, cultural and narrative, audiovisual communication, and health-physical activity), along with an inter-area training workshop.
3. "Resilience. La importancia do desenvolvimento da educação para a Resilience in Higher Education".
4. "Resilience from the Perspective of Physical Activity/Physical Education for Health in Higher Education".
5. "KICK YOUR STRESS! Physical exercise as a pathway to resilience".
6. "Autobiography and storytelling as strategies for intercultural resilience in higher education and university training contexts".
7. "Listen to your body. Meditative yoga, relaxation and visualization".
8. "RESILENCE IN THE WORLD. A review of educational initiatives".

The first Pilot Study, organized by the University of Granada, was conducted from February 27th to March 3rd, 2023, in the field of Health and Physical Activity. Its objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of activities aimed at enhancing resilience among university students and academic staff. The main items of the agenda are as follow:

1. Module on Health Habits and the development of Resilience Group Dynamics Workshop: Do we know each other?
2. Mindfulness or Inner Gymnastics workshop
3. Urban gymkhana on building resilience through cultural heritage: heritage and cultural inheritance
4. Physical condition and strength program - session I, II, III
5. Alternative sports program
6. Resilient Escape Room "The Shipwreck"
7. Inclusive Dance Workshop
8. Movement Workshop ``TOWARDS VIVENCIA'‘
9. Traditional sports program
10. Optimism and humor workshop: ``laughness. Training resilience I & II''
11. Cognitive training workshop ``Desgning Presence''
12. Juggling program. "Juggling for persistence"
13. Flamenco experience at the Conservatorio Profesional de Danza Reina Sofía de Granada

The effects of the workshops and activities were assessed with appropriate questionnaires.

The University of Algarve team planned this activity for the week from 13th to 17th March 2023. The Pilot Study in Portugal focused on artistic and cultural heritage, featuring a series of activities designed to help students build resilience against the adversities they face on a daily basis. The theme of the program was “Resilience, Emotion and Communication”, and the main items of the agenda as follow:

1. Conference: “Resilience, Emotion and Communication”
2. Introduction to activity “Resilience, Emotion and Communication”, Pilot Study of the RESUPERES European Project in Portugal
3. Assessment of resilience and its constructs
4. Workshop “Photo opportunity - Introduction”
5. Historical heritage of the city of Faro: discovering the old town and the Municipal Museum of Faro
6. Faro city historical heritage: discovering Modernism
7. “Discovering the city of Tavira: cultural heritage, Fado and photography”
8. Practice of “Photo opportunity I & II, in urban space”
9. Practice of “Photo opportunity III, in urban space: From Church of Mercy to Church of Carmo”
10. Workshop of photography: fundamentals of photography and digital image processing
11. Arts workshop in music and visual arts: “Fado Emotion Arts Activity”.
12. Visit to the Museum of Fado (Lisbon) and conference by musicologist Rui Nery: Coordinator of the candidature of Fado
to the immaterial cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO. Conference topic: “Fado as a factor of social and cultural resilience”
13. “Lisbon and its heritage: Communication dynamics”

Project team members from University of Belgrade organized the C2.3. LTT activity that was held in Belgrade from 24th to 28th April, 2023. Crucial activities of main agenda are presented below:

1. Presentation and explanation of the Resuperes Project, Activity C2 and specifically C2.3. Pilot Study (Serbia), “I OVERMINE, TRAINING IN RESILIENCE! KICK THE STRESS!”.
2. Green relief: Introduction to Orienteering and Practical class with prof. Irina Juhas in Košutnjak forest. Outcome:To learn about and work on non-conventional sports w ith the aim of fostering group cohesion and promoting resilient techniques such as leadership, empathy, solidarity, etc.
3. Module on Physical Activity and Psychological Wellbeing. Outcome: to learn of importance of physical activity and its contribution to resilience.
4. I fight back! – Outcomes: To learn basics of self-defense
5. It's the little things! (“The art of breathing"). Outcomes: Breathing is affected by stressful situations but can be an effective tool to fight back stress. Development and work on skills related to Resilience (Self-control, Body-control)
6. Music and movement – the oldest medicines! Traditional and Standard Dance. Outcomes: traditional dance contributes to physical, emotional and socio-cultural development, strengthening cultural identity and bringing dancers closer, in a more dynamic way, to their local environment.
7. Here comes the sun! Outdoor mobility and breathing session at Ada Lake. Outcomes: Functional work through a program of exercises, in a set time to develop breathing patterns strength and improve function of respiratory system
8. Overcoming anxiety strategies. Outcomes: Familiarization with relaxation techniques and coping strategies that may be used to overcome anxiety
9. Acro Yoga. Outcomes: Development of body-awareness and trust

Team members from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences organized the C2.4 LTT activity, titled “Project Your Avatar!”, which took place in Bergen from April 22nd to 26th, 2023.The key activities of the main agenda are outlined below:

1. Presentation of the Resuperes Project, Activity C2.4. Pilot Study (Norway), ''Project your Avatar''.
2. Audiovisual Media Laboratory, for the teaching-learning of digital skills, in order to acquire skills for academic and professional training
3. Initial assessment of Resilience and its constructs of study: Pre-test
4. Virtual Reality Laboratory, for the teaching of digital skills, in order to acquire skills for academic and professional training
5. Training of the Resilience through canoeing
6. Cultural heritage at BRYGGEN (UNESCO)
7. ORIENTATION WORKSHOP AT FLØYEN. The importance of Orientation activities in the development of Resilience
8. The importance of learning of cooking in a natural environment and the needs considered Biofeedback workshop. “Control your body, control your rhythms!”
9. The use of technology to control your galvanic response of your skin, and therefore your general activation, to control your stress
10. Workshop to practice yoga in a natural environment, experiencing the movement of the body being present and finishing with a meditation in the highest mountain of Bergen
11. MUSIC & EMOTIONS Recognize your emotions and the emotions that the music can develop
12. Workshop “In front of the camera!”. How to use the camera and body work in front of the camera
13. How to cook a Paella and teambuilding through team games
14. Final evaluation of the Resilience and its constructs of the study participants, and of the activities and program carried out. Post-test

The last RESUPERES Pilot Study was organised by Suor Orsola Benincasa University and took place in Naples, from November 27 to December 1st, 2023. The RESUPERES Pilot Study Italy, titled "Describe Yourself, Project Yourself!", was developed through activities on narrative and autobiographical methodologies, as well as educational approaches, with the aim of developing resilience constructs, in particular relation and connection with cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), historical, artistic, natural, and landscape. Through lectures and workshop activities, the autobiographical approach was experimented in two specific directions:

1) In a general and specifically educational and formative sense through both theoretical lectures and practical activities that enabled the implementation of autobiographical and narrative paths and strategies.

2) In relation to cultural heritage, understood as a tangible and intangible asset and through a wide range of possible meanings relating to the concept of culture and heritage: as historical-social, artistic, museum, natural and landscape heritage.

The following activities are part of the first group:

1. Lecture on the approach and methodologies identified in the "Describe yourself, design!" pathway: The autobiographical approach in education to build resilience : the search for a dimension of meaning between art and self-narrative".
2. Workshop "Strategies and methods of resilience education".
3. Activities: Workshop "The Resilience Casita. A model for building resilience in university contexts: working and studying happily".
4. Itinerant workshop "Naples resilient city”.
5. Itinerant workshop "Tracing expressions of self through glimpses of the city of Naples".
6. Activity: Visit to the artistic heritage of the ancient monastic citadel of Suor Orsola Benincasa (Historical Museum, Pagliara Museum, Church of the Immaculate Conception).

The LTT activity C3.1 Implementation of the Subject RESUPERES, Spain, consisted of various activities, workshops and intervention programs that took place from 24 to 26 January, 2024, at the University of Granada (Spain). All of them were aimed at the preparation, learning and implementation of the RESUPERES Subject, for the development of resilient competences in the context of Higher Education.
The main ítems of the agenda are as follow:

1. Teaching-learning of theoretical and practical contents to develop resilience skills, on the area of Physical Education for Health and Body Expression
2. Practical workshop of the Inner Gymnastics Module
3. Body Expression and Dance for Resilience Development
4. Piloting of Module 2: Body Expression and Dance, in a real context
5. Workshop: Flamenco Dance and Resilince
6. Theoretical workshop on the fundamentals of Module 2
7. Theoretical workshop of Module 3: Physical condition and health: Strength and aerobic capacity
8. Practical workshop of Module 3: Physical Fitness and Health: aerobic, cardiovascular and strength capacity for the development of resilience
9. Piloting of Module 3 in real context

The Portuguese team prepared the LTT Activity with great commitment - C3.2 Portugal: implementación de la Resuperes Subject, Portugal - Teaching-learning of theoretical and practical content to develop resilience skills, based on the areas of emotion and communication (music, art and photography), having developed the academic activities of the various workshops planned in the program for the 28th, 29th and 1st of March 2024 , and which are reported in the following points:

1. Teaching-learning of theoretical and practical content to develop resilience skills, based on the areas of emotion and communication (music, arts and photography)
2. Workshop on the design and implementation of activities for the development of resilience: arts and creativity
3. Workshop on the design and implementation of activities for the development of resilience: photography and communication.
4. Evaluation of Activity C3.2 Portugal (Evaluating the program, activities and teaching staff, within the RESUPERES Quality Plan)

The LTT activity C3.3 implementación de la Resuperes Subject, Italy, included a variety of activities, workshops, and intervention programs held from March 1 to 3, 2024, at Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples. These initiatives were focused on preparing, teaching, and implementing the pilot phase of the RESUPERES Subject, aimed at developing resilient competencies within the context of Higher Education.
The main ítems of the agenda are as follow:

1. Development resilience skills in the area of education through narrative and autobiographical methodologies
2. “Resilience and Digital Humanities” Workshop within the class Introduction to Digital Humanities
3. “Autobiography and Self-acknowledgement”. Whorkshop: Resilience and cultural heritage: the formative value of artistic works and monuments through autobiographical narration
4. “Self-portrait: acquiring narrative skills”. Workshop on the design and implementation of activities for the development of resilience in a university context
5. How do we use the contents of Manual, Web and App in the Implementation of our Subject?
6. Workshop “Emotions, narratives and visual art as educational tools to foster resilience”
7. "Workshop as part of the Subject "Emotions, narratives and visul art to educate resilience"
8. Presentation of the objectives, contents and methodologies of the Subject. "Emotions, narratives and visual art to educate resilience"

The activity C3.4 Implementation of the Resuperes subject, Serbia- "Teaching-learning of theoretical and practical content to develop resilience skills, was held at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Sport and Physical Education and hosted guests from project partner institutions from Spain, Italy and Portugal. The training activity lasted 3 days, and the main aim was to explore the fesability of implementing physical and health-related activities in higher education settings, to develop resilience constructs such as, self-confidence, self-esteem, group cohesion, decision-making etc.

The program focused primarly on practical sessions including breathing exercises, strength and conditioning workouts, joint mobility activities, traditional and modern games, and outdoor group exercises. Walking, as a fundamental form of physical activity, was integrated with exploring cultural heritage sites. The significance of these activities was reinforced through theoretical workshops addressing physical activity and wellbeing, mindfulness tools, and strategies for overcoming anxiety.

The LTT activity C3.5 Implementation of the Resuperes Subject, Norway, consisted of various activities, workshops and intervention programs that took place from 3 to 5 January, 2024, at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciencies of Bergen . All of them were aimed at the preparation, learning and implementation of the RESUPERES Subject, for the development of resilient competences in the context of Higher Education. Key activities of the main agenda are outlined below:

1. Teaching-learning of theoretical and practical content to develop resilience skills, focusing on Music and Physical Activity in natural environments
2. Theoretical contents of the practice of sports activity in the natural environments: Canoeing for the development of the resilience
3. Workshop "Resilience-building practices in a university environments through the sport of Canoeing"
4. Workshop "Resilience-building practices in a university environments through Music and Emotions"