Università Popolare Contemporanea “LeGrazie” Via Carmine, 12  74015 Martina Franca (TA) Italy

The U.P.C. “Le Grazie” is an education agency, which organizes social-cultural’s and art-theraphy’s courses for adult learners’ lifelong learning.

We currently work with older learners through: projects, activities and courses of manual, cultural, re-creative, art-therapeutically,etc Education; courses and activities of general culture, information and updating: put up a feeler with computers and new technologies; courses ad activities to acquire artistic abilities; activities of animation and social-cultural recreation through travels and exchanges. Our University is member of the Italian,Spanish, French, German and Japanese organization of Origami.
(Origami= is the art to fold the paper using the hands only to obtain paper's sculptures and pictures).

Currently, are involved in our activities more than 2000 people for year. Lesson’s timetable counts more than 600 hours of activities. Our courses are usually carried out in traditional classrooms according to a not conventional kind of instruction.

The courses presented in this project are: 

• lab. of traditional dolls

• lab. of traditional and modern kites

• atelier of Origami 

• lab. of digital photography.

Uniersità Popolare Contemporanea ”Le Grazie” 
Via Carmine, 12 
74015 Martina Franca (TA)
Italy 
Contact person: Sarah Ruggeri 
Tel.: 080/4305024 
Fax.: 080/4805957 
universitalegrazie@libero.it