KA121-ADU – Accredited projects for mobility
The KA121-ADU – Accredited projects for mobility of learners and staff in adult education is implemented within the framework of the Erasmus+ accreditation of SOLIS SRLS in the field of Adult Education.
The project foresees mobility activities exclusively for staff and includes:
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two job shadowing activities, and
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one course and training activity.
Project N° 2025-1-IT02-KA121-ADU-000315936
From Accreditation to Action: Our First Erasmus+ Mobility Experience
A Professional Journey into Theatre, Learning and Culture
From 6 October to 4 December 2025, Domingo Ferrandis, member of the SOLIS SRLS team, took part in a professional job-shadowing mobility at Teatro Olympia – Olympia Metropolitana S.A., in Valencia (Spain), one of the most emblematic theatres in the Spanish cultural landscape.
This experience was developed within Erasmus+ Key Action 1 – Adult Education and formally recognised through a certificate of participation issued by Olympia Metropolitana S.A., which details the competences acquired.
Learning by Being Inside the Process
Rather than a short visit, the mobility was designed as a full immersion in a professional theatre environment.
Day by day, Domingo followed the complete production cycle of a theatre performance: from rehearsals and creative decisions to technical preparation, coordination meetings and the premiere itself.
Observing rehearsals meant understanding how artistic direction, timing, staging and teamwork come together on stage. Being present during production meetings offered insight into how complex decisions are taken, how roles are distributed and how collaboration works under real professional pressure.
Alongside this, Domingo produced digital materials and videos documenting the process, using digital resources and artificial intelligence tools — strengthening the digital competences needed to turn a creative process into accessible content.
At the same time, the experience opened space for reflection and mediation: how can professional theatre practices become meaningful learning tools in adult education? How can artistic processes support inclusion, participation and community engagement?
Digital Photography and Video at the Universitat Politècnica de València
After the job shadowing at Teatro Olympia, Domingo Ferrandis attended the course “Fotografía y vídeo digital” at the Universitat Politècnica de València, from 7 to 16 May 2026.
The course covered digital photography and video, from shooting to editing, with practical work on the tools needed to produce visual materials. AI-based tools such as Runway, Midjourney and DALL·E were also used as support in the creation and editing of images and video, with attention to copyright and responsible use.
For SOLIS, the course linked technical capability with responsible digital practice, strengthening its capacity to create educational materials and audiovisual narratives for adult learners, while keeping human judgement, critical thinking and inclusion at the centre.
A Month of Observation and Participation in Romania
The third mobility was a one-month job shadowing undertaken by Ana Maria Solis, Managing Director and Erasmus Coordinator of SOLIS, at Dimitrie Cantemir University in Târgu Mureș, Romania, from 19 May to 17 June 2026. It began with observation of the university’s academic and organisational life — conversations with staff and visits to several faculties and facilities, including the library and the areas of Medicine, Dental Medicine and Geography.
Particular attention went to quality management, student support, the inclusion of international and non-local students, wellbeing, and the possible links between the university and its local community.
Observation then turned into practice, with two participatory workshops involving 62 people in total. The first, on 25 May 2026, brought together students, professors, researchers and staff of the Faculty of Psychology to explore needs and possible European project ideas around mental health, emotional and digital wellbeing, resilience, education, social inclusion and community support. The second, on 26 May 2026, worked with first-year adult and migrant students of the Dental Medicine programme on the transition to university life: academic adaptation, intercultural dialogue, integration, a sense of belonging, mentoring and mutual support.
Both workshops used guided reflection, active listening, small-group work and collective prioritisation; the second also used autobiographical storytelling. Rather than attending a lecture, participants identified needs, shared experiences and turned their observations into first ideas for future educational and European projects. Digital tools helped organise information and structure emerging ideas — but interpreting needs, choosing priorities and making decisions stayed firmly in the participants’ hands.
The three experiences followed one thread: theatre showed how creative ideas grow through collaboration, and how digital and AI tools can document a creative process; the university course built practical skills in digital photography and video, with a sense of their responsible use; and the Romanian mobility connected observation with participatory experimentation and the co-creation of new ideas. For a small adult-education organisation, this learning becomes most valuable when it is shared internally and turned into new participatory, digital and inclusive practices. This is why the mobilities resulted in two toolkits — one on the social inclusion of adults arriving in a new community, one on working with adults through theatre, photography and video — available for download below.
From Mobility to Organisational Learning
The mobilities produced practical materials that other organisations can use and adapt. They are free to download.
Arriving With Something to Give — A method for working on the inclusion of adults in a new community. Toolkit.
Scene and Image — Working with adults through theatre practice, photography and video. Toolkit.
La ternura — Portfolio produced during the job shadowing at Teatro Olympia (in Spanish).
Participatory Workshop on European Project Ideas — Faculty of Psychology, 25 May 2026.
Participatory Workshop on European Project Ideas — Integration of first-year students, Dental Medicine, 26 May 2026.
Results — Download the materials
Project N° 2025-1-IT02-KA121-ADU-000315936
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