LeaveCare-LiveLife

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LeaveCare-LiveLife – Building the European Care Leavers Network for youngsters leaving foster and residential care and actively living and participating in life

Programme and call

Erasmus +, KA2 (Cooperation for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practice, Strategic Partnerships in the Youth Field) – Call 2017, Round 2.

Project No. 2017-2-EN03-KA205-011223

Short description

The project is aimed at young people who leave the care system (in a community, in family homes and/or in family foster care) and intends to create a space for their participation and active citizenship (the European Care Leavers Network), so that they become protagonists of exchange and reflection activities and propose suggestions and ideas to improve policies on extra-family care and the actions to be taken to support young people during the delicate phase of “leaving” the care system. The aim is to give young care leavers more tools to better face the future independent life.

InEuropa srl has supported the planning activity.

Objectives

– to involve young people in associative and participatory pathways (especially the most vulnerable young people and those at risk of social exclusion) as a form of prevention of distress, reduction of the risk of deviance, marginalization, loneliness and as a means of promoting social inclusion, intercultural dialogue and non-discrimination;

– to improve the capacity for participation and active citizenship of young people in disadvantaged contexts, including unaccompanied foreign young people;

– initiate an exchange of good practices for the reception and exit of young people from out-of-family care at European level;

– to develop a long-term dialogue between young people removed from their families of origin, the management structures of care services and the decision-making authorities on the subject through the elaboration of Recommendations on the practices of transition to autonomy and the creation of the first European Conference of Care Leavers to be repeated annually, stimulating their critical thinking and spirit of initiative;

– to support youth workers and youth workers working in host structures in acquiring effective methods to prepare young people to proactively face the exit from the care pathway;

– raise awareness among the general population, as well as the specific actors involved, of the rights and difficulties faced by young people who are removed from their families.

 

Actions

The project foresees the realization of 4 Intellectual Outputs:

OI 1: Development of training modules for transnational training on CLN and Focus Groups

OI 2: Virtual platform as an opportunity for experiential training and exchange among young people – creation of the European Care Leavers Network

OI 3: Development of training modules for transnational training for operators on preparing children to leave residential structures

OI 4: “Recommendations” on the system of guardianship services and the transition to autonomy for young people

The project also foresees the organization of 2 short term joint training sessions for staff (aimed at providing new tools and methodologies for the involvement of young people in a path towards the exit from care facilities) and 1 combined mobility session for young beneficiaries.

Results

The main expected results are:

– Creation of a European Care Leavers Network with the fundamental aim of raising awareness of preventive action to improve the quality of the protection of young people in situations outside the family and the accompaniment to the exit from the protection pathways.

– Strengthening of the participation of young care leavers in the creation of support services that allow them to leave the protection pathways with a stronger and more continuous guide.

– Greater social inclusion, intercultural dialogue, self-confidence and active citizenship for young care leavers through the creation of networks with European peers.

– Less disadvantage, risk of deviance, marginalisation and loneliness of young care leavers.

– Increasing the skills and knowledge of professionals and young people working in reception structures regarding effective methods to accompany young people in the transition from care services.

Lead partner

Facilitating Association – EN

Partnership

4 partners from 4 different countries:

– Asociatia T.I.B.E.R.I.U.S. – RO

– The Care Leavers Association – UK

– Careleaver e.V. – DE

– Centre for supporting communities,professionals, families, youth and children for better life quality FICE Croatia – HR

Associated partners are also involved.

Duration

The project had a duration of 24 months (1 December 2017 – 30 November 2019).

Total Budget
The European grant received is € 247 292.00.

Funding body
European Commission – Erasmus National Agency + IT03

MAI+

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MAI+ – Memory Against Inhumanity: people with mental disorders under totalitarian regimes in Europe

Programme and call

EUROPE FOR CITIZENS – Strand 1, European Remembrance – Call for proposals 2017

Project n°589088-CITIZ-1-2017-1-IT-CITIZ-REMEM

Short description

The project stems from the awareness of the repeated denial of human rights that we still witness today, which continues to subject our society to the risk of a loss of the value of humanity as already experienced in the twentieth century. The travelling exhibition “Registered, persecuted, annihilated: The Sick and the Disabled under National Socialism” opened in Germany in 2014 serves as the inspiration for the project, which focuses on the inhuman persecution of mentally ill people during totalitarianism.

 

Objective

The aim of the project is to facilitate an intercultural and shared reflection on what has been the persecution of mentally ill people during European totalitarianism, not only to recover their memory, but also to guide, with the support of European professionals and bodies active in the field, young Europeans in a process of de-stigmatization of mental illness and suggest solutions for social inclusion in the present.

 

Actions

– Research conducted by European students on the subject;

– Organisation of 8 events including an initial and a final symposium, travelling exhibitions, performances of performing arts, workshops;

– Mobility of European students and young people;

– Production of videos, films and documentaries related to the project.

 

Results

These are the main expected results:

– Activation of participation processes, in particular of groups at risk of social exclusion, which will benefit from the training experience of the project;

– Networking at transnational level between bodies and professionals in the sector;

– Reflection among citizens at European level on issues related to European memory and current social inclusion policies.

 

Beneficiaries

Direct: civil society organisations, survivors’ associations, researchers, experts, students, teachers, social workers, psychiatrists, historians

Indirect: families and school communities, other professionals and historical research bodies, local authorities, European institutions

 

Lead partner

NETFORPP EUROPE, Rome

 

Partnership

The project boasts a partnership of 5 partners from 4 different European countries:

– NETFORPP EUROPE – Italy

– REIDA – Greece

– Academus d.o.o. – Slovenia

– Student Plus Foundation – Romania

– LICEUL CU PROGRAM SPORTIV SUCEAVA – Romania

 

Duration

The project had a duration of 18 months (1 September 2017 – 31 January 2019).

 

Project Budget

99.750,00 €

 

Funding body

European Commission – DG Education and Culture

INSERT

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INSERT – Developing the competences of educators/professionals for the promotIoN of Social Entrepreneurship to adults with migRanT background

Programme and call

Erasmus +, KA2 (Cooperation for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practice, Strategic Partnerships in Adult Education) – Call 2017, Round 1

Short description

The project aims to extend and develop the social entrepreneurship skills of educators/professionals working in organisations that support migrant populations, in order to assist them in the long term in promoting social entrepreneurship towards low-skilled adults with a migrant background, as an alternative pathway to their self-sustainability.

InEuropa srl has supported Liberation and Hope onlus during the planning phase, and will do so during the implementation phase as well.

 

Objectives

– to improve the experience and knowledge of educators/professionals in the field of social entrepreneurship, which will help them in the long run to support the development of social entrepreneurship skills in adult learners with a migrant background;

– to improve the provision of high quality learning opportunities in the field of social entrepreneurship, based on the needs of both unprecedented educators with relevant knowledge in the field and low-skilled adults with a migrant background;

– to increase the capacity of educators/professionals as trainers of other trainers in social entrepreneurship;

– Promote the social entrepreneurial spirit and raise awareness of alternative ways to pursue self-sustainability;

– increasing the relevance of learning and qualifications in the labour market, and reinforcing the link between the world of social entrepreneurship with adult trainers and the world of migrant learners.

 

Actions

The project was implemented in two main phases:

Preparatory phase

1) Establish the scope for needs assessment (methodology, guidelines and tools);

2) Research and brainstorming to identify the state of the art of capacity building programmes and good practices for building social entrepreneurial skills of educators/professionals working with migrants, social entrepreneurial educational practices, key documents on the implementation of entrepreneurship education, etc.;

3) Formulation of a system of evidence-based criteria for classifying areas of intervention.

 

Implementation phase

a) specification of the didactic methodology; elaboration of the capacity building curriculum;

(b) development of the structure of the web platform;

(c) experimental verification of the virtual learning tool for the implementation of the final version;

(d) evaluation of applications and final selection of beneficiaries;

(e) implementation of training for the construction of skills in social entrepreneurship

f) creation and activation of the network of virtual centres for informal social learning, and of the validation and certification methodology;

(g) assessment of the level of capacity building achieved;

(h) organisation of multiplier events and a final transnational conference.

 

Results

The main expected results are:

– Increased capacity of educators working in organisations that provide support to migrant populations in providing quality teaching and mentoring in the field of social entrepreneurship to adults with a migrant background;

– Increased capacity of partner organisations to promote adult entrepreneurial learning in the social enterprise sector by using the tools developed and by sharing experiences and knowledge on tools and practices for promoting social entrepreneurship at transnational level;

– Increased awareness of potential social entrepreneurs with migrant backgrounds who are in the countries of the project partners to engage successfully in the field of social entrepreneurship;

– Increased competence level of educators, objectively demonstrated through validation and certification of acquired skills;

– Knowledge of the open learning resources and the functional online tool available also after the end of the project for each adult who wishes to participate as a volunteer at community level, or for each social service provider who publishes opportunities and recruits volunteers.

 

Lead partner

Point Europe – UK

 

Partnership

The partnership is made up of 5 players from 4 different countries:

– Kentro Merimnas Oikogeneias Kai Paidiou – KMOP – GR

– EEO Group S.A.- GR

– Best Institut fur Berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und     Personaltraining GMBH – AT

– Pistes Solidaires – FR

– Liberation and hope onlus- EN

 

Duration

The project has a duration of 24 months (2 October 2017 – 1 October 2019)

 

Website

www.insertproject.eu

Total Budget

The European grant received is € 215 470.00.

 

Funding body

European Commission – Erasmus National Agency + UK01

GrEAT

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GrEAT- Green Education for Active Talents

Project number: 2017-1-IT02-KA201-036778

Programme

Erasmus +, KA2 (Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, Strategic Partnerships in the School Education Sector) – 2017 announcement

 

 Short description

The project intends to spread out knowledges about job and career opportunities offered to high school students in the “green economy” sector.

The project intends to provide students, teachers and educators with a series of high quality skills in the “green” sector through school education (educational modules and “school-to-work” exchanges): links with “green” companies, knowledge of the skills necessary to build a career in the sector, awareness of the problems and opportunities of the “green” sector.

InEuropa srl is the laeder of the project.

Objectives

  • support the exchange of good practices regarding job opportunities offered by the “green” sector and dedicated educational methodologies
  • enhance the skills of students, teachers and school placement operators relevant for job and career opportunities in the “green” sector
  • map educational and professional opportunities related to job opportunities in the “green” sector
  • connect students with the labor market in Europe, providing contacts and experiences in innovative companies in the sector of “green economy”.

 

Actions

The main activities of the project consist of:

  • Creation of teaching modules and materials related to the dissemination of “green” work. In particular, the central production consists of several short promotional videos prepared by the students, which describe successful stories and good practices by young actors in the “green” sector
  • International training for teachers and students
  • Activities in schools (supported by local actors in the “green” sector), including school exchanges
  • “School-to-work” exchange programs to connect the education sector with the employment sector of the “green economy”, creating and consolidating partnerships between these two worlds
  • University orientation programs, which will give to high school students a better knowledge of the opportunities offered by universities to prepare to work in the “green economy”
  • Preparation of final recommendations on the potential, in terms of education, work and career, of the “green” sector

 

Results

The main expected results are:

  • Achievement of better knowledge and more effective tools related to the “green economy” sector for students, teachers and other subjects of teaching. They will be more aware of career opportunities offered by the “green” employment sector in Europe and will be able to use the experience gained to promote such opportunities to future students and friends
  • Operators and companies of the “green economy” will establish strong ties with local schools, especially those with courses related to the “green” sector. These links can lead to strong interactions between schools and businesses, aimed at better cooperation between the private and public sector and the definition of educational programs that better meet the demands of an innovative sector such as the “green” sector
  • Greater awareness of concepts such as sustainability and environmental protection, which in the long term can lead to a better quality of life and career opportunities in Europe.

Leader

InEuropa srl – IT

Partnership

The partnership is composed of 5 subjects from 4 different countries:

  • Fundacion de la Comunitat Valenciana para una Economia Baja en Carbon – ES
  • Consejeria de Educacion Cultura y Deporte de la Junta de Andalucia, IES “La Laguna” – ES
  • Association 3PA – FR
  • eco&eco Economia e Ecologia srl – IT
  • Secondary School Centar za odgoj i obrazovanje – HR

 

Duration

The project lasts 24 months (2 October 2017 – 1 October 2019)

 

Website

http://www.greatgreenjobs.eu/

Budget

The European grant received is € 274,421.00

 

Financing corporation

European Commission – National Erasmus Agency + IT02

DROP-IN

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DROP-IN

Early School Leavers: Drop-in

Program and announcement

Erasmus +, KA2 (Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, Strategic Partnerships in the Youth Sector) – 2017 Call, Round 1

Project N ° 2017-1-UK01-KA205-035400

Short description

The project intends to create alternative paths for young people who leave school early (ESL – Early School Leaving) towards social inclusion in order to finally enter the labor market. The innovative aspect is that the project does not seek to reintegrate school dropouts into the formal education system, but focuses on enhancing their self-esteem and supporting them to embark on an alternative path of self-learning.

InEuropa srl is the  partner of the project.

 

Objectives

  • battle discrimination against young people who precociously leave school (who face the risks of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion) and increase their socio-economic inclusion by developing basic and transversal skills;
  • launch a flexible, innovative and youth-led online course for the development of basic and transversal skills, adapted to the needs of young people who have left school early;
  • offer an accessible and integrated tool (e-learning platform and for network actions) and a coherent European methodology for the capacity building of young people, easily applicable and transferable;
  • improve self-respect and self-confidence of young people, developing their skills and testing them for their personal and professional development;
  • increase the recognition of skills acquired and certified through non-formal learning, thus enhancing the competitiveness and employability of young people;
  • transfer, employ and build skills and good practices from successful models of development of key competences of disadvantaged young people across Europe;
  • fill the gap between the world of formal qualifications (acquired through formal education) and the acquisition of informal skills (acquired through informal educational ways as e-learning)
  • offer alternative education and training paths and opportunities, leading the way for a labor market and education for young people with educational disadvantages, which are more inclusive.

Actions

The proposed methodology involves the design and development of an online self-learning platform with gamification elements. The project will follow a holistic approach based on the direct feedback of the young beneficiaries, who will be actively involved in the process of design, development and verification of self-learning platform and will act as ambassadors that “drive” the awareness-raising campaigns on a large scale, with partnership support, with the aim of promoting the new electronic platform and involving its peers.

The project foresees the realization of 6 Intellectual outputs:

IO 1: E-Book “identification and analysis of needs”

IO 2: Development and Accreditation of the training course ”

IO 3: Implementation, development, and coordination of the Platform for Capacity-Building & Networking

IO 4: Training and activation of “Ambassadors” and Dissemination Campaign

IO 5: Guidelines for the realization of Coaching Centers and Support at a national level, towards young people who have abandoned school early, for opportunities for non-formal and informal training.

OI 6: E-book: “Drop-in final report of the project”.

 


Results

The main expected results are:

  • Increased confidence and capacity in young participants (who left school early), reintroducing them into informal and non-formal learning processes, for further development of their skills;
  • Increased awareness and understanding of the long-term positive impacts of informal and non-formal learning processes on the personal and professional life of the young people involved;
  • Increased awareness on the part of young people who have left school early to be closer to their peers who have instead completed a formal educational path;
  • Increased capacity to promote the employability and socio-economic inclusion of young people who have left school early, through shared and innovative informal and non-formal methodologies and tools.

Leader

The IARS International Institute – UK

Partnership

The partnership consists of 4 subjects from 4 different Countries:

  • Fundatiei Schottener Servicii Sociale – RO
  • Kentro Merimnas Oikogeneias kai Paidiou – KMOP – GR
  • Centre for Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology Ltd – CARDET – CY
  • InEuropa srl –IT

Associated partners are also involved.

 

Duration
The project lasted 24 months (1 September 2017 – 31 August 2019)

Website
www.dropinproject.eu

Total Budget
The European grant received is € 154,194.00

Financing corporation
European Commission – National Agency Erasmus + UK01

EDUGATE

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EDUGATE – multilingual teaching in early childhood education and Care

Lead partner

Municipality of Piacenza, Italy

Programme and call

Erasmus +, KA2 (Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, Strategic Partnerships for School education), Call 2016, Round 1.

Project number: 2016-1-IT02-KA201-024294

 

Short description

The EDUGATE project stems from the idea that in these times of unprecedented economic and social challenges, it is essential to provide children with a solid start in life through the implementation of a high quality pre-school educational service. In fact, the broad benefits that pre-school education brings in early childhood have been widely acknowledged and range from economic benefits for society as a whole to better outcomes for individuals in their schooling. In particular, the project stems from the recognition of the lack of a pre-school service aimed at fully exploiting the potential of children in foreign language learning, despite the fact that the phenomenon of multiculturalism and migration is now consolidated even at school. In this perspective, it is especially important for migrant children to learn the language of the host country from an early age, in order to promote their integration into social, cultural and professional life. Moreover, it would be very useful for children to learn English or other vehicular languages that are valuable for them in their future adult life and for overcoming many barriers. For this reason, the project believes that it is essential to update and strengthen the training of teachers and educators working in the field of early childhood, in particular by updating their skills and abilities on the basis of the challenges posed by contemporary society, such as international mobility, multiculturalism, the need to think in a global world.

 

Objectives

– Strengthen the knowledge and skills of school staff, through the implementation of an analysis and exchange of experiences and information between partners who will improve their skills and knowledge on teaching a second language in the pre-school system.

– Improve the early childhood education system and make it competitive against contemporary European challenges.

– Improve the integration and inclusion of foreign children in the host country – particularly in the case of immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers who do not speak the language of the country in which they live.

– Create an educational and didactic programme that allows the introduction of the teaching of a second language in the pre-school system of the countries involved.

– Improve the education system for pre-school children to avoid possible difficulties in adulthood and to train adults who are able to face the challenges of a global and multicultural society.

 

Actions

– Drawing up of a Training Context and Needs Map analysing pre-school training from the point of view of teachers and educators

– Drawing up of a Collection of Innovative Good Practices in which at least 5 good practices collected in each partner country are reported

– Development of the Educational Programme and operational plan describing both the contents and the application model for a bilingual education system in the pre-school system

– Development of teaching materials for pre-school teachers to strengthen teachers’ skills

– Elaboration of the Guidelines for New Professional Curricula

– multiplier events organized locally by individual PPs to inform and involve local stakeholders;

– organisation of 6 virtual meetings (Skype) between the PPs of the project;

– organisation of 5 transnational meetings (including project start and end meetings), respectively in Italy, Sweden, Poland, Latvia, Slovenia.

– Realization of 2 transnational training sessions for teachers and educators, one in Italy and one in the Czech Republic

 

Results

– Drawing up of a map on training contexts and needs: the map will be produced following the analysis conducted in the first 7 months of the project and will give a picture of how educators and teachers of the pre-school system perceive the context and the training needs.

– Elaboration of a Collection of Innovative Good Practices: each partner will collect 5 good practices about innovative education systems implemented in Europe or worldwide.

– Development of the Educational Programme and operational plan. This will describe both theories and methodology with which the second language should be introduced into pre-school education.

– Teacher materials for the pre-school system: the teaching materials resulting from the implementation of the educational programme and the work plan will improve the teachers’ skills in teaching the second language in early childhood education services.

– Development of Guidelines for New Professional Curricula for Teaching Staff Working in Pre-School Services

– Improved training for pre-school educational staff on innovative and state-of-the-art training systems

– Strengthening the early childhood education system to make it competitive against contemporary European challenges.

– Better integration of foreign children and migrants, both in the classroom and in the social and cultural life of the host country.

 

Beneficiaries

Teachers, educators and other staff of the school services, parents, responsible for the definition of curricula for teachers, local authorities.

 

Partnership

The partnership shall be composed of the following actors

– Lead Partner: Municipality of Piacenza, Italy

– PP1: University of Milan Bicocca, Italy

– PP2: Municipality of Krasne, Poland

– PP3: Municipality of Riga – Department of Education, Sports and Culture, Latvia

– PP4: University of Gothenburg, Sweden

– PP5: ZS Angel, Czech Republic

– PP6: FINI Institute, Slovenia

 

Duration

The project had a duration of 36 months (01/09/2016 AL 31/08/2019)

Website

N/A

Total Budget

417,410.00 euro

Funding body

European Commission – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency

SPREAD

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SPREAD
Skills, Practice and Recruitment of European musicians for tomorrow. Audience Development in classical music

Project number n° 2015-1148/001-001

Programme and call
Creative Europe – Sub-programme Culture – Call for proposals EACEA 32/2014 for European Cooperation projects

Short description
SPREAD is a transnational project co-funded by the Community’s Creative Europe – Culture Sub-programme programme within the 2014 call for proposals. InEuropa srl has carried out the planning and currently supports the lead partner in the management.

Objectives
SPREAD aims to create a transnational network of European music institutions committed to the implementation of high level music teaching through innovative methods. Specifically, the project aims to provide young musicians with the skills they need to work as professionals in the best international orchestras.

The project includes a variety of activities, including one-to-one lessons, chamber music, chamber orchestra and symphony orchestra, as well as concerts where students and teachers will perform together to create a close cooperation.

Thanks to the contribution of each partner’s expertise in the various fields, the SPREAD project is able to offer a unique and varied experience that meets at least three of the main objectives set by the European Union up to 2020: employment, education and social integration.

Actions
Action 1 – Project management and coordination
Action 2 – Project launch meeting
Action 3 – Web promotion tools
Action 4 – Recruitment Phase 1
Action 5 – Planning of master classes
Action 6 – Recruitment Phase 2
Action 7 – Production
Action 8 – Production, training, entertainment
Action 9 – Public development
Action 10 – Repetition of the show
Action 11 – Reporting activities Phase 1 and post-production of digital content
Action 12 – Monitoring and evaluation meeting
Action 13 – Final dissemination activity
Action 14 – Training and entertainment
Action 15 – Temporary exhibition and awareness-raising
Action 16 – Final management meeting

Results
The main expected results of SPREAD are:
– Increase in the number of applications for academic courses from young European musicians

– Increase in the degree of satisfaction with the musical activities carried out and increase in the number of people involved (musicians, public)

– Possibility for the institutions involved to strengthen their position at international level

– Increased job opportunities for young musicians involved (entry into orchestras, etc.)

– Possible increase of cultural tourism in the countries involved in the project.

Lead partner
Gustav Mahler Music and Youth Foundation (Bolzano)

Partnership 
The partnership is made up of 4 private entities from 4 different countries: Italy, Great Britain, Austria, Germany.

Duration
The project had a duration of 19 months (1 June 2015 – 31 December 2016)

Website
http://www.spreadproject.eu/

Total Budget
The project has a total cost of € 332.010,00

Contribution
199.206,00 co-financed by the EU equal to 60%.

Funding body
European Commission – Directorate-General for Education and Culture

EU BAC

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Undercreative Network: between arts and creativy

Project number 1714/001- 001CE CULT2015/COOP

Programme and call
Creative Europe – Sub-programme Culture – Call for proposals EACEA 32/2014 for European Cooperation projects

Short description
Undercreative Network is a transnational project co-financed by the Community programme Creative Europe – Culture Sub-programme within the 2014 call. InEuropa srl has carried out the project-design and currently supports the lead partner in the management.

Objectives
Undercreative Network aims to create a transnational network between “creative ateliers of performing arts”, suburban academies operating in different artistic sectors in close contact with their audiences through permanent courses and the possibility of hosting a theatre season in a small internal theatre.
The network aims to: internationalise its activities; promote the transnational mobility of artists and works; better reach and expand suburban audiences; create lasting relationships between European artistic bodies for both training and production activities; promote creativity between young people and artists, integrating different artistic languages.
The partnership will work to integrate their training sessions and theatrical stations to co-produce 4 shows that bring together different artistic styles; use different artistic and creative techniques to make the “message” understandable to all (eg. the film method of the storyboard applied to the theater); organize the promotion of these shows during local festivals.
Finally, a Charter of Creative Performing Arts Workshops will be created: an agreement between the project partners and other European bodies with the same interest in internationalising creative activities, integrating artistic languages, bringing European thinking to the stage and establishing lasting cultural relations.

Actions

The project initially includes a study phase on the characters who best represent the European genius in the various countries involved. Afterwards, training sessions will be organized at local level in all countries with exchanges of artists to familiarize themselves with the different artistic languages of the other partners. This will allow to start the pre-production phase at national level and then the transnational co-production phase that will take place through itinerant artistic residencies that will allow to build a unique performance that makes dialogue between the chosen characters and the different artistic languages. This joint co-production will be hosted in the theatre seasons of the partner institutions as well as in other festivals in the same countries.

Results
The main expected results of Undercreative Network are:

– Creation of a stable network of European creative ateliers through the signing of the Charter
– Production of new artistic approaches at European level capable of increasing the development of the public also in a suburban environment
– Creating a sense of belonging and European identity
– Increase transnational productions and artistic exchanges on a stable basis through follow-up actions
– Promoting people’s creativity in Europe.

Lead partner

ONESTAGE PERFORMING ARTS PROJECT (Rome)

Partnership 
The partnership is composed of 4 private entities from 4 different countries: Italy, Germany, Romania, Czech Republic.

Duration
The project had a duration of 24 months (1 October 2015 – 30 September 2017)
Internet address: Undercreative
Facebook Page

Total Budget
The project has a total cost of € 332,940.0
Contribution
199.764,00 € co-financed by the EU equal to 60%.

Funding body
European Commission – Directorate-General for Education and Culture

E-Story

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MEDIA AND HISTORY. From cinema to the web. Studying, representing and teaching European History in the digital era 

Project number 2015-1-IT02-KA201-014777

Program Name
ERASMUS PLUS – Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices – Strategic partnership for school education – Call for proposals 2015

Lead partner institution
Institute for the History and Memories of
the ‘900 Parri

Short description
The E-story project originates from the awareness that digital integration in teaching and training is now a necessary step for European schools, especially with regard to the teaching of history. Despite the fact that most European students are “born digital”, multimedia and audiovisual sources still represent an unexplored potential in the teaching of history from a European perspective. Hence the idea of a project aimed precisely at the media literacy of teachers and the introduction of new teaching methods that make the subject more attractive to students.

Objective
The aim of the E-story project is to enrich the teaching of history, especially at high school level, through the teaching of new methodologies based on the use of web and ICTs to teachers, teacher trainers, researchers and students of history and media.

Actions

– Mapping of audiovisual and multimedia resources for the development of an Observatory that can monitor how the representation of media and television history changes;
– development of a digital learning environment for history teachers to guide them through e-workshops on the use of a content management system (CMS) in order to create their own applications and lessons;
– a shared design of a training package on media literacy in order to promote the knowledge and development of skills related to how to use the web and audiovisual tools for objective reading of history and the acquisition of new tools for teaching history so as to make it more innovative and more attractive for students;
– establishment of an online support centre to facilitate the use of project tools;
– Creation of dedicated resources and apps by teachers and students to test the project tools at local level;
– Multiple events to allow exchange of experiences and follow-up of the dialogue of history teaching through the web.

Results
These are the main expected results of E-STORY:

– mapping and continuous investigation of historical channels, sites and audiovisual resources in order to have data on the representation of history on the web and the interests of European citizens;
– dissemination of the “historical method”: choice by teachers of multimedia and audiovisual sources among the multitude of those available, in order to build a lesson;
– new teaching strategies and methodologies;
– virtual mobility of teachers and students through project tools;
– at least 42 open educational resources of a historical nature, one produced by each class involved in the project.

Beneficiaries
Higher education teachers and students, researchers

Partnership
The project boasts a partnership of 8 partners from 7 different European countries:

  • Institute for the History and Memories of the ‘900 Parri – Italy
  • Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) – Spain;
  • ERI-Slovenia;
  • Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii (PAN IFIS PAN) – Poland;
  • KDKKA- Hungary;
  • EUROCLIO – European Association of History Educators – Netherlands;

University of London (UoL) -United Kingdom

Duration
The project had a duration of 36 months (1 September 2015 – 1 September 2018).

Project Budget
447.840,00 €

Funding body
European Commission – DG Education and Culture

GAMIFY

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Gamify Your Teaching

Increasing vocational competences of entrepreneurship Teachers with the use of gamification

 Agreement n. 2015-1-RO01-KA202-014975

The idea of GAMIFY stems from the need to update the training system in Europe, considering that today in the EU more than 5 million children under the age of 25 are unemployed. According to the “Rethinking Education” (2012) initiative, in order to build “new skills for the 21st century”, more space should be given to entrepreneurial capacity, considered one of the main skills capable of filling the unemployment gap. Although entrepreneurship is currently the subject of teaching in many of the European school courses, this is still not treated with an effective teaching method.

 

In response to these needs, the Gamify Your Teaching project aims to support the development of professional skills of teachers and trainers dealing with entrepreneurship, as well as to improve the teaching of ICT through innovative pedagogy and an approach to teaching linked to the use of specific game techniques.

Indeed, teachers and trainers from the vocational training sector are directly involved in the project activities, as are the students.

The project has a total duration of 24 months, starting in September 2015 and scheduled for September 2017.

The project is based on a partnership between 7 European countries (Romania, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, the United Kingdom, Spain and Greece) involved in activities that aim to create and test a game, as well as to develop an innovative methodology for entrepreneurship training, through the use of game techniques. The bases of these activities are given by a specific analysis carried out by the partners and by external experts in the field of social research, in order to understand what are the fundamental requirements and characteristics for the creation of the game and the teaching materials for teachers and trainers. The results of the analysis will be elaborated in a specific report. Furthermore, case studies of successful companies are collected, which can be a source of inspiration useful to students and to all those who wish to open an independent activity.

What will the project concretely  produce? (Intellectual outputs, concrete products):

  • 01 REPORT ON THE ANALYSIS OF NEEDS – the analysis has the purpose of defining the main characteristics that will have to play, as well as the level of competence in the field of ICT for teachers and trainers.
  • O2 THE PLAY – consists of 7 teaching modules related to entrepreneurial skills. The game will be divided into levels based on scenarios and content that will simulate an entrepreneurial activity. The level of the game consists of a real scene composed of a series of possible paths to be taken based on the decisions taken.
  • O3 TEACHING MATERIALS – are intended to guide teachers in the use of the game. The materials will be in electronic format and can be downloaded directly from the dedicated site.
  • O4 CASE STUDIES – consists of a collection of at least 35 successful business experiences to support all those who want to undertake an entrepreneurial journey.

 

Expected results:

The project will have a significant impact, which will be noticed in particular on teachers and students who will use the products and who will therefore have the opportunity to increase their entrepreneurial and ICT skills. In the long period the project will have a significant impact on how to increase the spirit of entrepreneurship not only of the students who will take part in the project, but also of other young people who will be reached through different communication channels.

The project also represents an important opportunity to increase collaboration between vocational training schools, companies, social partners and other sector bodies throughout Europe, as well as the sharing of experiences and skills among all the partner countries of the project.

Official website of the project: http://gamify-project.eu/it/