Public Space – Ship of Open Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Public Space – Ship of Open Education

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Open and distance learning; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Our project aims to stimulate and boost educational dimension of public spaces. We believe in power of nonformal education, which can easily “sneak” into everyday life of every young person, regardless of privileges, nationality or competences.

Public space is the natural enviroment for learning, which has become more and more an desert which need to be recultivated with meaningful activities and a focus on stimulating development of young people.

Our project is aiming to create this shift in understanding the public space as a learning space, from the perspective of the youth worker and from the perspective of the young people, with a strong forcus on younth with fewer opportunities. We want to collect though a reseach phase an theoretical understanding which will show how to transform successfully public space into learning space.

This will be done in cooperation with the University Potsdam to have a dialogue with the formal educational sector and build this study on solid theoretical ground, to foster cross sectoral cooperation. The outcomes will lead to create a practical tookit, with methods and approaches which will help to make for the youth work field a supportive guidence how to empower this learning experiences in the public space. This will be created based on a practical test phase where the methods will be put into action within activites conduct by the partners.

The outcomes will be presented to the wider community of youth workers and stimulate the development of a network of multiplyers which will continue to work on the common ground transforming with their activites public space into learning space. What will lead to a wide spreaded inspiration for the field towards a biggers awareness on th epotential of public space as learning enviroment. And through the network dimension forster longterm cooperation and common project development in this field.

In general we aim to stimulate a wider systematic shift of awareness which will lead to more awareness how to use the public space as an enviroment for learning and to unfold the potential of cross sectoral cooperation to create activities which will stimulate young people development in that context. As we have seen in the last years how big is the motivation in reclaiming the public space towards protesting and expressing the personal and politicalopinion, the next step could be to understand it as a ground to learn together and grow. This will recall a old tradition of the Agora – the public, common space as a enviroment to come together and learn from each other as it was in the Antique.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 57840 Eur

Project Coordinator

GrenzKultur gGmbH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Fundacja Arte Ego