BLAST! – Fostering Youth Social Inclusion through Blockchain for Sustainability Erasmus Project

Project Title

BLAST! – Fostering Youth Social Inclusion through Blockchain for Sustainability

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Environment and climate change; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The youth face many uncertainties regarding their future, due to fast technological change and proliferation of fake news and populism that affect political stability, demographic trends that impact their prospects of income for an elderly age, discrimination and social exclusion, which represent barriers for the youth objectives on being financially independent, taking control of their own life and help others to thrive. The stakes are high as the young generation is at risk of being less well-off than their parents, for the first time since the Second World War.

The BLAST! project aims at fostering social inclusion through a non-formal learning programme on the Sustainable Revolution, through Blockchain and DTL emergent technologies. The project objectives are to develop a state of the art non-formal learning programme, complemented with video-based digital learning through digital Stelling to enhance youth engagement.

C1 – BLAST! Learning Experience for 10 youth educators/workers/leaders. the BLAST! learning activity is designed to empower the youth workers/leaders that will later implement the learning programme pilots in the methodology and thematic. It will ensure that all the materials are harmonized and they represent a high-quality result which have a real application in real non-formal learning contexts.

O3-6: Learning programme pilots. This activity will provide the opportunity to test all results and enable partners to make the necessary reengineering of the products. The learning pilots will take place in three EU countries (Ireland, Portugal and Turkey) counting with 30 young participants (15-22 years old).

E1, E2, E3 – having a BLAST! in the Sustainable Revolution’ Experience. The project will include national outreach workshops in order to engage a sizable number of participants (minimum 75) and ensure that the project has a wide impact across Europe.

E4 – having a BLAST! in the Sustainable Revolution Final Conference (IE). The event will have a minimum of 30 national participants and appropriate media coverage enhancing the exposure of project results and products to relevant stakeholders.

IO1– BLAST! Curriculum for Sustainable Revolution through Blockchain
The curriculum will comprise i) the Learning programme aim and objectives, ii) the Learning Outcomes per Learning Unit (climate change, natural disasters, biodiversity loss, ocean-health deterioration, air pollution and water scarcity), iii) the “BLAST non-formal education methodology for Sustainable Revolution” with a model of dialogic evaluation, and iv) the learning materials. This result will be available in EN, PT, TR and NL.

IO2 – BLAST! non-formal education methodology for Sustainable Revolution
The Blast project will adopt a non-formal education methodology, where a range of learning activities will be designed, each exploring one topic (Learning Unit) on the Sustainable Revolution. Youth workers and Youth leaders will have a guideline on how to implement the learning programme and guide the youth participants in achieving the Learning Outcomes. This result will be available in EN, PT, TR and NL.

IO3 – BLAST! Learning programme
In the scope of this IO, state of the art digital video-based learning materials will be developed (through a digital story telling approach), in bite sized units, on the topics of sustainable revolution. The videos will be have voice overs in EN, PT, TR and NL and will be subtitles in the same languages. At least one short animated video for each topic (Learning Unit) will be developed. After the completion of the videos, the BLAST! Learning programme (the BLAST! curriculum and the BLAST! methodology) will be tested in Ireland, Portugal and Turkey.

IO4 – Good practices webinar for the implementation of the BLAST! Programme
A series of webinars will be organized by partners and their associated partners that will share there experiences, best practices and solutions regarding the BLAST! learning pilot implementation.

All partners jointly cover the expertise needed to carry on project activities and deliver high quality outputs, each partner participating in specific tasks appropriate for their profile. All partners will participate in the Project Quality and Evaluation, Dissemination & Exploitation activities and on the peer-review stage of each output.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 257161 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK – NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK & Country: IE

Project Partners

• FUTURE IN PERSPECTIVE LIMITED
• INSTITUTO DE SOLDADURA E QUALIDADE
• Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
• Inthecity Project Development B.V.