POP-MACHINA aims to demonstrate the power and potential of the maker movement and collaborative production for the EU circular economy. We draw from a number of cut-edge technologies (factory-of-the-future, blockchain) and disciplines (urban planning, architecture) to provide the support necessary to overcome scaling issues; a typical drawback of collaborative production; to find the areas more in need of our intervention and to reconfigure unused spaces. We put forth an elaborate community engagement program to network, incentivize and stimulate through maker faires and events existing and new maker communities in all our municipalities. We build upon the current informal curriculum for maker skills development by nurturing the social side and we put educators and makers together to exchange ideas on the training modalities. A particular focus on the skill development of women and vulnerable groups will aim to empower these (underrepresented) segments to partake actively in collaborative production. In every pilot area we will demonstrate business oriented collaborative production of feasible and sustainable concepts from secondary raw material or other sustainable inputs, based on the needs and preferences of the local stakeholders. A thorough impact assessment framework with increased scope (e.g. social) will be co-designed with stakeholders after short basic assessment trainings and will be used in the assessment of our pilot work. Based on the findings we will kick-start a series of policy events to discuss openly – without pushing our results – the tax and legal barriers that hamper collaborative production.

<< Objectives >>Overall objective: Develop a PBL approach for collaborative teacher training focused on digital enhancement for active learning in Higher Education (HE).Specific objectives:O1 - Identify and select best practices of teacher training in HE.O2 - Develop a descriptive framework for PBL approaches for collaborative teacher training focused on the digital enhancement for active learning, allowing personalised and flexible learning pathwaysO3 - Develop Open Education materials for teacher training<< Implementation >>The project will develop the following main activities:Mapping teacher training practices, activities for collecting teacher training (TT) best practices and research evidence for effective teacher training in higher education.Development of a PBL framework for collaborative TT, where teacher trainees in TT events will develop digital enhancement for active learning approaches for their students.Development of an Online Open Education repository with resources to deliver the TT designed.<< Results >>The main results of the project will be:Output 1: A co-designed inter-institutional PBL framework for the implementation of collaborative teacher training, allowing for designing digital enhancement for active learning approaches for students.Output 2: Online repository of materials in English to support the teacher training actions.Additional outcomes:Outcome 3: A report with best practices and research evidence for teacher training.Outcome 4: 200 to 1000 teachers directly trained.

ADMIGOV aims to promote an alternative migration governance model. ADMIGOV takes seriously the principles laid out in the New York Declaration (NYD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to study how alternative approaches to migration governance can be better designed and put into practice. However, rather than proposing a top-down study of existing migration policies, ADMIGOV studies the reality of existing polices and practices on the ground to improve migration governance in line with the principles set out in the NYD and SDGs. This is the unique analytical feature of ADMIGOV. We bring together analyses of migration governance in practice and in key times and spaces and relate these analyses to the key structuring principles of migration governance as laid out in the NYD and SDGs. This is done to better understand the current gaps between principles and practices and in order to provide insights and recommendations for migration governance in the future. ADMIGOV is methodologically unique. We bring analyses from along the migration ‘chain’, from entry through to exit and incorporating key issues such as labour migration, protection needs and development goals. ADMIGOV has chosen several case studies of key times and spaces in migration governance, including the Greek islands, Lebanon, and Turkey, to better understand the most important and most problematic processes at play. Additionally, through the involvement of the Danish Refugee Council, ADMIGOV has access to possibly the largest dataset on migrants on the move today. The 4Mi data of the Danish Refugee Council will give ADMIGOV access to and help us generate more data than a single research team could normally collect. In short, ADMIGOV is designed to combine the analyses of existing policies and practices on the ground in key times and spaces with the wide-ranging 4Mi data to generate new indicators of good migration governance, helping the EU put the NYD and SDGs into practice.