The project “FixSmallArt” will examine and moderate different art methods and techniques supporting social tolerance practices and adult education for people with learning disabilities and mental illness helping their social and personal empowerment. During the implementation of this project the people with learning disabilities and mentally could develop their social and communication skills and will be supported in the informal adult education field. The aim is to connect art techniques with training methodologies making possible the empowerment of people with learning disabilities and mental health to develop their communicational skills, social status and personal responsibility.

“FixSmallArt” is a partnership of 7partners from 6 EU member states who strive to enhance employment and social involvement of people with disability (PWD) through use of educational art techniques with paper. This method enables us to empower people with disability by developing their Key Competences, share old and develop new methods, and enhance visibility of people with disability who are usually left on margins of the labor market due to prejudice. Disability is a social issue that has been addressed significantly by the EU in the recent years but what is lacking still is the notion among employers that being disabled is not being unable to work. As organizations with years of experience in working with and for disabled people, we find that this prejudice persists because of lack of interaction between the disabled and the “non-disabled”.