BACKGROUNDCultural practice makes people reflexive and participatory, thereby developing individual and social capacities. This is identified in the literature as the intrinsic value of culture. When cultural practices translate into other fields such as health and education, they have other social and economic effects, such as preventing dropouts in education, improving health, making people more resilient, growth that is more inclusive, etc. These effects are instrumental values of culture [OECD (2018), Culture and Local Development]. Capitalizing on the intrinsic and the instrumental values of culture, now needed more than ever due to the Covid-19 pandemic and as a response to its economic and social impacts, in ENACTING, we present a method for civic engagement that uses video documentary to capture discourses within focused local settings and translocate them to online spaces. Our method aims to facilitate creativity, innovation, and active citizenship, as well as the exchange of perspectives between communities across these spaces.OBJECTIVESOur overarching objective is to promote common values, inclusion, civic engagement and participation through skills development in the arts and innovative digital practices.Therefore, the project aims to:- identify social challenges in local contexts, and provide a concrete methodology for doing so- promote skills development in the artistic digital practice of developing a social documentary by providing a web-based training on social documentary development (ENACTING MOOC). The course will enable learners to rethink local challenges in a creative way, and to put forward potential solutions to those, thus contributing to their community.- empower awareness, active citizenship, participation, social inclusion and foster innovative, intercommunity, intercultural dialogue, through the ENACTING Participatory Media Lab.- promote audience development and the use of digital means to create and disseminate cultural products, through the Participatory Media Lab, contributing to the recovery resilience of the CCS.TARGET GROUPSThe ENACTING MOOC and Participatory Media Lab will empower citizens in the focused local communities. They are ultimately targeted to all adults – youth and youth workers, elderly, trainers and educators, artists, migrants and refugees, disadvantaged groups, and all other interested persons. Also, the project targets local authorities, policy makers, grassroots and community organisations, youth clubs/centres, adult education institutions, local CCS, NGOs, social cooperatives and HEIs in arts and digital media education.RESULTSIO1: Identification of local challenges in urban settings. The major aim of the Local Challenges Assessment is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the present particularities, characteristics and social challenges in local urban settings. Besides Local Challenges Assessment, the IO will provide a concrete methodology for the identification of local challenges, that can be transferred and re-used in other contexts.IO2: ENACTING Social Documentary Film Training Course A comprehensive training course comprising a suite of modules and resources- that will support interested adult learners of all backgrounds as well as partners’ teaching and administrative staff to develop their skills in producing social documentary films by capitalizing on the ubiquity of new on-line learning environments and the pervasiveness of mobile devices and open source software.IO3: ENACTING MOOC - a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and a freely accessible Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) containing the training material developed. It also contains a Virtual Community space to support community interactions among learners, professors, and teaching assistants.IO4: ENACTING Participatory Media Lab - a collective virtual place that allows both to give visibility to the productions made by the participants from the different countries and to represent a space for dialogue and exchange.IMPACT- Learners’ acquisition of new skills on Social Documentary development, thus increased capacity of adults in social documentary/artistic production and digital skills- Enhanced awareness of adults on social issues, active citizenship and community engagement, social inclusion, promotion of common values, local innovation through creativity-Increased awareness of society regarding current challenges and increased capacity to suggest solutions and responses. - Increased resilience of cities and communities by engaging citizens in civic and collective actions.- Community development and intercommunity dialogue and exchange: increase social inclusion and cohesion between different groups in the society- Enhanced audience development and use of digital means to create and disseminate cultural products, thus contributing to the recovery resilience of the cultural and creative sectors

CANDIICE is a five-country collaboration to provide:- active creative, arts-based learning resources using digital technologies and associated staff training to help future generations make democracy work inclusively for their harmonious futures- institutional change resources- wider implementation guidanceDuring the 2019 – 2022 period of Erasmus funding, CANDIICE.eu will grow into an inspiring online training and resource hub for all educators wishing to expand their uses of creativity, collaboration and learner empowerment. Continual work to rethink and improve genuine inclusion is essential as communities become more diverse – our methodologies are focused on recognising the changing attitudes and forces that deprive and exclude and will promote new uses of digital learning (often non-verbal) to ensure that marginal and disadvantaged learners play their full part. CANDIICE.eu will provide flexible training modules suitable for educators in different sectors of formal and informal education. They will be designed to fit into existing training structures to maximise adaptable ease of use. Training will build capacity, confidence and inspiration to incorporate creative flair into this most important aspect of education for a future inclusive Europe. Additional materials for education leaders and policymakers will give detailed recommendations and strategic guidance at the institution, locality and national levels to provide a roadmap to update citizenship education so that it successfully reinforces inclusive, pluralist democracy in a digital age. Educators responsible for citizenship learning carry a massive responsibility – to ensure that future generations understand and build successful coexistence in changing, diverse communities. A universal commitment to common European values is the bedrock of peaceful coexistence; until recently we assumed that established democratic processes would defend these basic tenets. The mechanisms of democracy have been severely jolted by rapid changes in communications technology, many groups in our populations have been left behind, or excluded in different ways. Citizenship education with extensive digital awareness is the space where future generations must formulate a sophisticated understanding of their part in a democratic future: whether they can be collaborative agents of change or disempowered consumers of manipulated attention and attitudes. CANDIICE.eu will be a major support for educators needing to work effectively in that space.CANDIICE will make exciting new learning materials and associated training freely available through CANDIICE.eu with extensive links through other European online resources and strategic guidance. Materials will be produced through repeated processes of collection and evaluation of best practice, research-based innovation and unique collaborations between our partners: leading European agencies in digital open learning, intercultural inclusion, citizenship, creative community arts, learner empowerment and professional adult education and training.CANDIICE partners are:School Development Support Agency (Lead agency) – Leicester, United Kingdomhttp://www.sdsa.netNational and international project development, networking and training for public services. International training programmes on service leadership and improvement, diversity and inclusion, intercultural education, language diversity, learner co-construction and empowerment.Eurosoc#Digital – Berlin, Germanyhttps://www.eurosoc-digital.orgInnovators of digital, interactive, creative learning exploring European citizenship, plural democratic values, community civic engagement, youth politics and activism.Forum za Slobodu Odgoja – Zagreb, CroatiaForum for Freedom in Educationhttp://www.fso.hr/Teacher training institution specialising in a wide range of unique in-service programmes with extensive international links. Expertise in values, liberal education, citizenship with well-established national impact.Les Tetes de l’Art – Marseille, Francewww.lestetesdelart.frProgressive intercultural community-based arts and creative hub. Innovator of multi-media youth projects. Nova University– Lisbon, Portugalhttps://www.unl.ptInitial teacher education institution specialising in language and intercultural understanding.

<< Background >>As experienced by project partners, city neighbourhoods as educational environments offer non-formal learning opportunities for the residents that could be exploited to promote social inclusion, participation and community engagement processes. By valorising place-based knowledge and competences the project Edu-City aims to promote on field educational experiences for the target of fragile adults. The project idea is based on the recognition of the educational value of existing and consolidated territorial competences and local expertise of the different territories in which the partners organisations work. This is even more valid in deprived urban contexts in which often fragile adults are excluded from opportunities of inclusion, participation, learning and local resources valorisation. To initiate these processes it is necessary to train a new professional figure of neighbourhood facilitator, that will support fragile adults in becoming aware of their territorial knowledge and competences and in activating processes of participation and civic engagement but also empowerment of their job and life perspectives.Edu-City partnership wants to focus on four basic and specific identified needs: recognise place-based knowledge and competences of fragile adults living in deprived urban contexts; need of involving fragile adults from five urban contexts identified by the project partners in participatory bottom-up processes; need of professional figures that works in the neighbourhood as facilitators of local resources valorisation; need of informal and non-formal educational experiences in project areas that aim to valorise place-based knowledge and competences.<< Objectives >>Edu-City has the following three main objectives:Firstly, the partnership wants to work on the recognition, valorisation and mapping of place-based knowledge and competences of fragile adults. Edu-City approach, based on the use of the neighbourhood as an educational environment, will provide methods and tools to recognise territorial resources (as memories, stories, ideas and competences of local citizens) and to transform them into educational opportunities.Secondly, to train adult educators as neighbourhood facilitators, able to activate participatory processes of valorisation of the local resources with a target of fragile adults. The competences of the neighbourhood facilitators include local facilitation and mediation; community engagement and participative techniques and tools; exploration and analysis of territorial contexts; recognition of place-based competencies and knowledge; project planning and developing local solutions; communication and networking skills.Thirdly, during the realisation of local educational activities, the neighbourhood facilitators will work on enhancing bottom-up participatory processes of valorisation of the local resources with fragile adults. For example they could identify with the residents a cultural element of the neighbourhood (as the presence of old-craft activities) and realise an exhibition for the community on the topic; valorise networking competences of adults and working together on the re-opening of an abandoned space; create a neighbourhood newspaper or radio. To synthesis we aim to accomplish three specific objectives: to recognise, valorise and map place-based knowledge and competences owned by fragile adults; to train adult educators as neighbourhood facilitators able to activate participatory processes of valorisation of the local resources with a target of fragile adults; to exploit the use of place-based knowledge and competences to enhance bottom-up processes of valorisation of the local resources.<< Implementation >>Edu-City is structured according to a set of interconnected activities aiming to boost the potential educational value of existing territorial competences and local expertise in five European pilot neighbourhoods in Palermo, Marseille, Sofia, Berlin and Seville. Thus, Edu-City is built along six main sequential steps and activities described below.The first one is the definition of an educational approach based on the concept of neighbourhood as a learning environment. This phase provides for significant learning contents for Edu-City training and it lays the foundation to accomplish the first project results, the Edu-City Handbook.The second activity is built on the design of a training scheme. Such a scheme stands the base to train neighbourhood facilitators intended as professional adult educators able in transforming place-based knowledge and competences of fragile adults into educational opportunities. Edu-City training scheme is our second project result.The third activity is the realisation of the training for neighbourhood facilitators. Twenty adult educators, representatives of the five project partners will be trained in Palermo following the main features of the Edu-City training scheme. The fourth activity foreseen is the realisation of five job shadowing during which one of the trained neighbourhood facilitators will have the possibility to travel in one of the partner countries to experience on field applied practices of neighbourhood facilitation.The previous activities are strictly functional to the fifth one that sees Edu-City partnership engaged in the design and implementation of local educational laboratories and activities with fragile adults. Educational activities are intended to activate processes of participation and civic engagement, meant as practices of valorisation of territorial knowledge and competences. The trained neighbourhood facilitators, including the ones that experienced the job shadowing, are the key persons implementing and animating these educational labs.The sixth and last phase of the project is the development of an Open Education Practices (OEP) Compendium. It will resume and collect the five applications of the methodology in the selected neighbourhoods as case-studies.<< Results >>During the deployment of the project Edu-City partners will be in charge of developing the following main outcomes and results. First of all the development of the Edu-City handbook on the use of the neighbourhood as a learning space. It includes the educational approach designed by the partnership, a collection of methods and exercises to explore, map and valorise place-based competences and local resources. It will present a detailed methodology for the engagement of fragile citizens in processes of valorisation of local resources, based on the contribution of the five partners and their concrete experience in participative empowerment processes.Second main result is the development of the Edu-City training scheme and the realisation of an international training in Italy for twenty neighbourhood facilitators on the scheme designed by the project partners. Edu-City training scheme will contribute to rationalise and put in one unique framework several methodologies, tools, best practices, practical experiences and non-formal educational approaches we face as European partners that contribute to define and complete the role of a neighbourhood facilitator.Five neighbourhood facilitators are also expected to take part in a job shadowing experience in the partner local contexts as an outcome that leads to merging the know-how of partners organisations.Third main expected outcome is the effective participation and active involvement of fifty fragile adults in local educational activities created and realised by the neighbourhood facilitators. Educational practices of valorisation of place-based knowledge and competences in the five selected neighbourhoods are also foreseen as direct outcomes.The outcomes of the educational activities implemented by the neighbourhood facilitators with the adult residents will be collected in the fourth main result, an Open Educational Practices Compendium. The Compendium will collect experiences, methodologies and other tools that the neighbourhood facilitators have used in the local context. The OEP will share those educational practices to support the development of competences in the framework of adult education.A final result of Edu-City is the realisation of four community events and one international conference in Berlin centered on the use of the neighbourhood as learning space.

Artists, creators and small cultural non-profit organisations are facing for years an increasing social and economic instability, in most of European countries. The ongoing health crisis due to Covid-19, which makes the cultural sector step into hard times and deep changes, will further weaken their working and living conditions in the coming years. Women, people from less privileged background, from deprived neighborhood, with a migration background or a low level of academic education, are particularly disadvantaged in this situation. Yet their voices, narratives and perspectives are essential to ensuring living democracies, a strong social cohesion and a real cultural diversity. In the same way, cultural small non-profit organisations struggle to sustain a third path between public cultural services and cultural industries. Though, they are essential for the quality of daily life within local communities.To address the problem with a fresh perspective, we built an original partnership, which includes a University, a public enterprise specialized in adult education, and five private non-profit organisations from the arts and culture sector. Our project intends to design and implement innovative methods, contents and tools in order to train our target group in the concepts and issues of current major transitions: social, economic, environmental, digital and democratic. We especially aim to achieve four crucial objectives:- Build innovative approaches, expertise and tools for adult education in the arts and culture sector through the topics of transitions.- Gain a better understanding of the concepts, issues and new models at the heart of current major transitions and their potential of renewing and change making for the professional arts and culture sector in Europe.- Identify in these transitions the levers and opportunities enabling the target group to secure and sustain his activities and design innovative, inclusive and sustainable socio-economic models. - Enable the target group to acquire forward-looking and useful knowledges, skills and tools in order to individually and collectively act for change.Through this international and cross-sectoral cooperation, we will implement several learning and training activities, designed as a social innovation process and gathering around the project many complementary skills and perspectives.UNDERSTAND. A first phase will bring together, after a preliminary research and a needs assessment, 210 participants (target group members, adult education professionals, external experts and various local stakeholders such as academic institutions, local partners, local authorities), through 7 co-creation labs on the topic of transitions in the arts and culture, implemented locally by each partner.ENVISION ALTERNATIVES. Two international peer-to-peer trainings - each gathering 35 participants from the target group and partners organisations - will lead to design collectively innovative frame and contents of the local pilots and of two intellectual outputs : an easy-to-use digital tool kit, supporting the target group to design innovative and inclusive socio-economic models ; a short web serie, highlighting the issues faced by our target group and emphasizing new alternatives to overcome it.ENACT. Through 6 local pilot trainings, we will experiment these new methods and tools with 120 participants from the target group, enhance it through their feedback and hopefully foster the emergence of innovative socio-economic experimentations implemented locally.IMPACT AND DISSEMINATE. We trust that the INPACT project will enhance the personal and professional background of participants and lead them to impulse significant changes in their professional path, activities and organisations. By disseminating a useable and useful digital tool kit and a playful and creative web serie, freely available in 7 languages, we hope to develop the target group’s ability to think and act for change within their professional sector throughout Europe.The active promotion of the “real utopias”, created by participants through the local experimentations, will contribute to open new perspectives to address social and economic difficulties of artists, creators and small cultural non-profit organisations and to spread new narratives about possible and desirable changes within the arts and culture sector. Finally, we hope that the sustainability of the original INPACT partnership and its several local satellites will initiate new alternatives to strengthen the resilience of the arts and culture sector through adult education. The current situation shows us that developing the capacity of individual and organisations to anticipate crises, face its consequences and design innovative solutions to overcome it, are not prospective topics but urgent concrete needs.

CulTrees main goal has been a dynamic and add-on contribution to the educational methodology of Key Competence No 8 of the European Reference Framework (ERF): Cultural Awareness and Expression, in the field of Adult Education.Seven organizations from equal number of European countries, members of the International ROOTS&ROUTES network, cooperated from the beginning of the proposal writing time until the completion of the final report, under the coordination of SMouTh, in order to combine their potential in art education and Adult Education in key competences.CulTrees had set some specific goals:1. The development of a set of training methods and tools that can be used in non-formal education environments, making use of the benefits of peer learning and learning through art making in a variety of artistic expression media (theatre, dance, visual art, literary arts, etc.)2. The development of the teaching skills of professional art educators who participated in the training activities and the enhancement of their personal professional profile, as well as the level of their organization’s involvement in the field of Adult Education.3. The development of the adult trainees’ awareness about the cultural diversity in Europe and the need to be maintained.Each organization of the consortium took part in the project’s training activities with 3 people (21 trainers and education professionals) coming from the fields of performing arts education and adult education. Through the cooperation of the whole team, a 5-days training program was created, implemented in July 2018 in Larissa, in collaboration with the Mayoralty of Culture and Science of the Municipality of Larissa and Unesco’s “Learning Cities” network.In this training program, each participant acted both as a trainer and trainee, leading as a trainer the method he/she had prepared to propose to the group, while being trained in all the other methods, in order to be able to evaluate and use them in his/her own activity framework in his/her country.For the dissemination and promotion of this 5-days training activity in Larissa, a 1-minute video teaser was created, published in all social media and local events related to adult education. Also, a greek-language printed flyer in 500 copies has been distributed to stakeholder local organizations, groups and individuals from the Adult Education sector.The promotion of the activity in local level, besides the dissemination of the project, aimed also at the inclusion of a small number of adult trainees in selected workshops of the five-days Larissa training and their function as a reference group in terms of the needs and interests of the end users of CulTrees outcomes (adult learners). This group took also part in every method’s evaluation round that took place at the end of the workshops, offering valuable experience to the CulTrees team.This experience has been imprinted in the collection of all training tools and methods in a shared “CulTrees Methods Descriptions” document. Each participant developed a detailed description of his/her method in a way that it can be applied by the rest of CulTrees trainers. By doing so, each trainer was initially invited to join the project with 1 method, and finally he/she was given access to a collection of 18 methods to apply in training activities in his/her country.The utilization of the whole of CulTrees methods has been implemented through small scale training activities in each participating country during the final 3 months of the project (Oct-Dec 2018).The participating trainers applied the methods they have been trained at from their peers in corresponding target groups in their countries and they had been asked to describe their experience in the project’s final management meeting in Florence in December 2018.CulTrees activities and outcomes had a particularly positive effect in the professional and educational profiles of the participants, as they focused on the opening of their own and their organizations’ professional involvement in Adult Education, in a concrete and sustainable way. The team’s networking activities in local, national and European level have already created the need to spread the knowledge and expertise developed through CulTrees to other organizations and consortiums, while the team is planning future cooperations in order to positively affect the training methodology in Cultural Awareness and Expression in the field of Adult Education in Europe.