The coordinators of the project “Enhancing cultural awareness through cultural production” were the Kauniainen unit of Humanities Polytechnic and the Korpilahti Unit of Humanities Polytechnic.
The other partners involved in the project were: Askøv Højskole, University of Applied Sciences Cologne, Residential College Jägerei Husted e.V. and Research Institute Grazer Büro für Frieden.

Humanities Polytechnic
The Kauniainen and the Korpilahti Units
Humanities Polytechnic(Humak) is an institute of higher professional education specialised in offering education in the following fields: cultural production and management, leisure time administration, youth work, civic and activities and sign language interpretation. After their studies the students work in the following areas: cultural and social politics, recreation and leisure time activities and sign language interpretation. Humanities Polytechnic was founded in 1997 and it works as a network of twelve units around Finland. Humak students and staff also benefit from a virtual campus and intranet. The polytechnic offers three different degree programmes of 140 credits (210 ECTS) each, these are : Youth work and civic activities; Cultural management and production and Sign language interpreter.

Residential College Jägerei Husted e.V.(D)
Residential College Jägerei Husted e.V is one of the many institutions of Independent Adult Education in Germany. It offers a variety of lectures including: environment/ecology, the European Community, political education and courses participation in democracy. Jägerei Husted e.V was founded in 1948 and its educational activities are based on the law of adult education. Hustedt was the coordinator of the EU project “Integration contra Nationalismus”.

Fachhochschule Köln (D)
University of Applied Sciences Cologne,
Faculty of Social Sciences

Residential College Askov Højskole (DK)
Askov Højskole is situated in Vejen, Denmark. It is a residential adult education centre established in 1865. It offers training periods varying from 1 to 36 weeks for adults over 18 years old. The courses offered at Askov range from journalism and film to theatre and languages. About a quarter of the students are of foreign origin.

Grazer Büro für Frieden und Entwicklung (AT)
The Peace Centre Graz was installed in 1988 as a municipal institution with complete independence as far as content, organization and administration are concerned. For the first time a community committed itself, with the consent of all political parties, to integrate continuous and systematic activities in the fields of peace, development, tolerance, reconciliation and
protection of human rights as an independent issue in municipal policy. The activities of the Peace Centre concentrate on education and information, networking and peace work. It participated in the EU project "Integration contra Nationalismus".

Participants of the EU-Project „Enhancing cultural awareness...“ spring 2002 at Askov Höjskole (DK)
1st row : Kari Kinnunen (FI), Jozsef Wieszt (GE), Henning Dochweiler (DK, Irmeli Luoma (FI), Karl Kumpfmüller (A) (from the left)
2nd row: Winfred Kaminski (GE), Paul Smith (DK), Risto Ruotinnen (FI), Peter Altmann (A) (from the right)
and not to forget Timo Sorvoja, the photographer.