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Co-Engage

Modern society is undergoing rapid and profound changes. A recent study found that about 30% of tasks in 60% of occupations could be atomized (December 2017, McKinsey & Company) leaving space and need for new synergies between activities and innovations.
In terms of social innovation, European Commission brings up the concept of co-creation on the agenda:
“The empowerment of actors is, according to research as well as practitioners <…> (Vale, A. 2009), what qualifies the innovation — ‘engaging citizens as co-creators’.”
This idea was also expressed by President Barroso: ‘A successful innovation policy is one that involves all actors in society, innovation is something you do with people, not to them’ (13 October 2010). If the ultimate objective is to introduce sustainable change, then the main variable is people’s empowerment.  “Co-creation and co-innovation by universities and public research organisations with businesses, social institutions, government, and citizens need a specific set of skills” (EC, 2014).

Co-Engage is built on the conviction that teaching participation through co-creation will contribute to the empowerment of all citizens, independently of their age, gender, ethnic or any other belongings.
 
Co-Engage has been conceived by 8 European partners, active in different fields and sectors, from social innovation and services till fashion design, experienced in formal and non-formal education. Our consortium will contribute to the development of co-creation skills enabling citizens to become social innovators. Based on the exchange of experiences and learning through co-creation, our method will permit to bring in light know-how and competences engaging citizens for innovation and creativity and through this, creating bridges between divers sectors and fields of activity.

Co-Engage project circle is oriented on work packages, milestones, staff trainings and transnational meetings. The most important activities carried out will be the collection and analysis of good practices and their testing in co-creation labs.

Co-creation labs will be implemented during three training courses. Co-creation labs typically involve hands-on activities in which a group of peers expresses experiences and explores potential solutions in a tangible way. Collaborating in this way provokes discussion and creates valuable insights.
 
Co-Engage methodology will build on the concept of “critical design thinking”, an attitude where critical approach of traditional and accustomed values brings new ideas and new results and form an important element of co-creation.
 
The overall aim of Co-Engage is to identify the main areas where co-creation can contribute to turning citizens in active innovators of the society, and to gather and discuss good practices representing each of these areas. In order to achieve this main goal, the implementation phase of the project will lead to 5 main results.
 
Result 1: elaboration of at least 80 smart practice evaluations on co-creation methods in the different sectors (private, public and NGO) based on a commonly approved evaluation grid.
 
Result 2: Organisation of 3 Co-Engage Labs. During the labs, the techniques and methods of co-creation will be discussed (Lab 1 - Co-discovery: Citizens as co-implementers), their transferability will be tested (Lab 2 - co-speculation: Citizens as co-designers) and finally the methods will be implemented outside the project (Lab 3 - Co-Creation: Citizens as initiators).
 
Result 3: The smart practices evaluation and the three Co-Engage Labs will lead to the identification of a large number of co-creation practices, that will be gathered and presented in an interactive map;
 
Result 4: The Co-Engage consortium is composed by partners who are all actively engaged in teaching and training; each of them representing at least 2 of the key competences of Lifelong Learning identified by the Erasmus + programme. A specific work package of the project will be dedicated at the identification of the main pedagogical tools and methods improving co-creation skills, as well as of their main learning outcomes.
 
Result 5: A project eBook, main dissemination product of the project. It will summarise all methods, recommendations and inputs.


PAESIC

Pedagogical Approaches for Enhanced Social Inclusion in the Classroom (PAESIC)

The European countries are increasingly becoming more diverse. We currently see an increase in students with migrant and refugee backgrounds in European school systems. This is creating obstacles but also opportunities within educational instutions across the continent. In this project we will reach out and support teachers –particularly educators working with youth with immigrant and refugee backgrounds- in fostering mutual understanding and respect in the classroom.

In fostering enhanced social inclusion, mutual understanding and respect among young people in the classroom, and providing real, concrete skills and training for those educators on the front lines of the influx of new faces and cultures, we know we are helping to build a more cohesive European society, with an enhanced socially inclusive climate.

This project will provide trainings and promote social cohesion and the competencies of teachers in enhancing social inclusion. We will find solutions in existing experiences and explore cutting edge methodologies and approaches.

With partner countries in Denmark, Germany, Greece and Italy, we aim to:
a. increase abilities in the area of pedagogical approaches and methodologies to promote social inclusion in the classroom
b. promote the exchange of good practices in enhancing the inclusion of all students, especially those with migrant and refugee backgrounds
b. create options for more inclusive classrooms and schools

In this project we will develop four Intellectual Outputs of different types (Reports, Guides, DVDs, Internet Platform), on which the entire partnership will work for a period of twent-four months.

Importantly, there will also be the realisation of:
- five Transnational Project Meetings to control the activities developed and to plan new ones
- four Multiplier Events in which all the outcomes will be exploited
- a dissemination campaign to be realised at a wider level to share all the tools created

The project will be based on an effective analysis of existing situation and necessities coming from the target groups sectors (primary school teachers and school leaders working with them).
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Erasmus + KA2 School
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Erasmus+ KA2 Adult
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01/10/2018 - 31/12/2020
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EU-ACT - Europe City

Teller

CONTEXT
The project "Europe City Teller - cultural mediation and storytelling for tourism, between theater, multimedia and storytelling" (acronym "EU-ACT") operates in the European cultural tourism sector, with the aim of developing a quality offer, promoting local customs and traditions, paying attention to sustainability, protecting and enhancing the heritage, landscapes and local culture.
The EU-ACT project intends to integrate itself into the transnational cultural tourism strategy promoted by the European Commission, which aims to carry out a series of activities to promote transnational tourism skills and products in relation to specific themes with significant growth potential and to respond to social concerns, to problems of territorial cohesion and of protection/enhancement of natural and cultural heritages.
 
AIMS
The main objective of EU-ACT is to transfer to operators, educators and mediators, new knowledge and skills in the field of cultural mediation and theatrical and digital storytelling, with the aim of co-creating new cultural tourism products spendable on the market.
EU-ACT intends to accompany the realization of these products, through international experiences, promoted by a strategic partnership, made up of organizations with many experiences in the fields of theater, design and digital programming, methodologies of storytelling applied to cultural heritage, coming from Italy, Poland, Hungary, Germany and the UK.
The project will have a total duration of 27 months, and includes:
- training activities
- various project meetings,
related to the realization of 3 intellectual products that will be presented later in the multiplier events that each partner will organize in its respective chosen city and which will be addressed to an audience of citizens and tourists European/non-European.
 
INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS
The project involves the creation of the following 3 intellectual outputs:
1. Live interpretation: route of theatrical visits, with "live-actors", that in historical clothes, will tell the main points of historical-artistic interest of the European cities involved
2. An online platform with an in-depth analysis of the contents produced by the project (to encourage the experience both before and after the events)
3. An APP in augmented reality, for mobile devices, connected to a paper/game guide, to permit to:
- benefit from the contents created in real time
- conduct the public to discover the path imagined with video-animations
 
IMPACT
The activities of the project are imagined to generate a great impact in terms of acquiring new skills, knowledge and experience in the field of enhancement and promotion of cultural heritage.
 
RESULTS
The project plans to
1. implement new training methodologies
2. increase the knowledge of the European cultural heritage
3. give access to the European cultural heritage through the web and digital technologies
4. transfer educational methodologies

Voicitys

VOICITYS aims to improve social integration through reinforcing social dialogue and communication in European urban neighbourhoods characterised by ethnical and cultural diversity. More particularly, we intend to improve and make sustainable the communication and interaction between different social groups, and to deepen dialogue between policy makers, stakeholders and citizens in order to promote more efficient management of diversity. Comparing the positive and negative experiences of local citizens with those of local stakeholders, leaders and decision-makers will improve common understandings of diversity at the neighbourhood level. It will also encourage new approaches to existing policies, incentives and tools regarding social integration and sustainable diversity.
Activities
The project studies four diverse European neighbourhoods: Berlin, Budapest, Manchester and Sassari through three main activities: 1) collecting and curating stories of citizens through Community Reporting (80 citizen stories) 2) collecting and analysing stakeholders’ views through semi-structured interviews (45 interviews); 3) comparing the results of the two methods and elaborating a series of policy recommendations through participative workshops and consensus meetings.

Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
10 trained volunteers/community reporters, 80 citizens and 50 policy stakeholders directly benefiting.

VOICITYS will collect information on local diversity from citizens and stakeholders and outline multilevel policy recommendations. In doing this our consortium intends to develop a new model of citizen participation in local and European policies related to diversity.

Deliverables include 4 local and 1 EU Reports on Challenges of Diversity - local and European level (in 4 languages), 4 local and 1 EU reports on policy recommendations, and a “Voices of Diversity” book and film.
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H2020 - Rights, Equaility and Citizenship
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Scie-Citizens

Scie-Citizens believes in the power of participation in education. The partnership was built upon realizing that the role of facts become again more and more relevant for every citizen. The partners are aware that in lifelong learning the “academic ivory tower” seems to be the ultimate bastion, resisting to be involved with other learning paths. However, the approach of Citizens Science is an innovative methodology, involving both top-down but as well from a grass-root level learners and citizens to be involved in research and science. We believe that instead of reinventing methods, it will be more productive to evaluate existing tools, identify smart practices, collect, review and share them. Thus, Scie-Citizens consists out of partner from different education sectors, covering the geographic scope of all of Europe.

The mission of Scie-Citizens is to advance citizen science through knowledge sharing, collaboration, capacity building, and advocacy. The project aims to encourage broad and meaningful participation in citizen science through promoting inclusive and collaborative partnerships and facilitating a community that shares practices, knowledge, and tools to bring recognition to the value and impact of citizen science.

The project seeks to create an assessment tool for identifying smart practices using citizen science approaches and collect those practices in a method handbook. The handbook will be a tool-box for trainers, teacher and other facilitators to create innovative and tested instructions all over Europe and across all educational sectors.
During 7 project meetings we will work on 70 good practice examples, and 7 policy briefs, which will be published in a comprehensive project eBook. All methods will be documented, collected and published at the end of the project. In order to identify smart practices, the partnership will collect indicators and create an assessment tool. The tool and the method handbook will be open accessible and will be used by institutions from all education sectors in formal and non-formal learning. The project can be understood as a pre-assessment of the needs to create and test European curricula in citizenship building.

The project targets directly trainer and teacher in all educational sectors. We expect the participants of the project to extend their knowledge on using citizens science methods in their curricula. We expect participants organizations to professionalize and innovate their curricula through new methods. We expect learners to become more motivated to perform lifelong learning and we expect stakeholders to become more aware on the need to include participatory methods in teaching and training.

As declared in the Digital Market Strategy, European citizens need innovative approaches to keep up-to-date in the ever changing work market. A key 21st competence is the so called Information Literacy, the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand. This became even more relevant lately, in the time of skepticism towards science and the wake of misinformation and so called “Fake News”. The European Commission is tackling the spread of false information through their code of conduct to combat illegal online hate speech. The problem is rather tackled through self-regulation of the social media outlets. However, a more securing way to fit counter information is to engage and enable citizens to fact check and getting involved in both addressing and researching publicly perceived problems and deficits. A conduct on citizen science will help to inform the public and empower the European Citizens to assess information received.


EduCitizens

To participate is one of the core skills in the nowadays digital society.
Participation means to be in the position to gather information, reflect them and articulate opinion. Participation inherent the ability to conceptualize information and put them into different context.
Transferring participation into education means to educate self-aware citizens, who are open to new ideas, cultures and concepts and who are willing to form and influence actively their society.
Therefore it will be beneficially to create curricula, which have a European perspective on citizenship and participation.
The project seeks to create an evaluation grid for identifying best practice in citizenship building and collect those practices in a method handbook. This handbook can be understood as a tool-box for trainers, teacher and other facilitators to create innovative and tested instructions all over Europe and across all educational sectors.
The project will run for two years and will consists out of a number of multinational meetings (each partner will organize one) where good practice methods are presented and discussed.
The project will be organized in a series of multinational meetings at every partner organization. At every meeting the partners will present two good practice examples of participative methods or projects in education. All methods will be documented, collected and published at the end of the project. In order to identify the good practices, the partnership will collect indicators and create an evaluation grid to identify good practices. The grid and the method handbook will be open accessible and should be used by
institutions from all education sectors in formal and non-formal learning. The project can be understood as a pre-assessment of the needs to create and test European curricula in citizenship building.
The project target directly trainer and teacher in all educational sectors. During 7 project meetings, we will work on 70 good practice examples, 14 input reports and 7 policy recommendations, which will be published in a comprehensive project eBook.
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Erasmus + KA2 Adult
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EUrbanities

EUrbanities – Empowering Civil Participation through Game-Based Learning – is an ERAMUS+ project for the creation of a game-based pedagogical tool and curriculum. EURBANITIES is a European project for adult education, aiming to facilitate the participation of civil stakeholders in neighbourhood-level development programs, through the establishment of a pedagogical curriculum based on a game tool dedicated to local stakeholders, activists, trainers, and urban development professionals.
The EURBANITIES game will function as an online game for individual use as well as a pedagogical tool for a training program. Its aim is to stimulate the strategy-making process of civil activists and residents that are actively participating in neighbourhood-level urban development projects. EURBANITIES will help them advance their actions in a strategic way, based on know-how accumulated through the analysis of already existing experiences from around Europe.
The game will be built according to several scenarios of participation established following the evaluation of experiences of participation in neighbourhood-level development. Around 20 on-going or already finalized projects from 10 countries will be presented in the form of narratives following a common grid of storytelling. The experience evaluations focus on the strategies and actions taken by the main stakeholders in each project and their re-adaptation at turning points that shape the processes. The scenarios of participation will be built following these main lines of action and turning points identified in the experiences.
The scenarios will serve as a skeleton of the online game, which will be constructed in the second year of the project. To facilitate using the game in a pedagogical context, a pedagogical curriculum will be formulated parallel to the game development work. The game and the curriculum will be tested in a series of training events and workshops during the third year of the project.
EURBANITIES is realized through the cooperation of 7 partners from 6 countries that represent three main types of expertise necessary for the successful accomplishment of the project’s objectives:
  • Experts in urban development issues (Comparative Research Network, Berlin; Institute for Regional Studies, Budapest; Institute for Urban Development, Krakow; UrbanisTimo, Helsinki; Association for Urban Transitions, Bucharest)
  • Experts in intercultural training and education (Comparative Research Network, Berlin; Mine Vaganti, Sassari; Association for Urban Transitions, Bucharest)
  • Experts in communication and gamification (UrbanisTimo, Helsinki; EuroNet, Potenza)
The diverse themes are closely interrelated and one partner generally represents several types of expertise. You can read more about the project partners here.
EURBANITIES is a three-years-long project. It is organized around 10 international meetings and 1 multiplier event, and the co-creation of the project’s main products: a booklet of the experience evaluations, a booklet of the main scenarios, a pedagogical curriculum, and an online game.

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