Cooper’actif: live together, tomorrow an other way Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cooper’actif: live together, tomorrow an other way

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation

Project Summary

Despite the vagaries of the project, the objectives were achieved, thanks to the extension of the six months granted to the project. This project was able, by combining more than fifty structures, to create the conditions for its sustainability. The three priorities (teaching trades/ skills and skills acquisition/social inclusion) were executed, with training programmes in new construction professions in the transition economy.
The slogan “Invite to travel, inspire to dream, inspire to act” sums up these objectives. In order to make young people actors in their housing and for them to see in participatory housing an alternative: 1/for the various learners, it was achieved with the discovery and practice of co-production, the co-production of participatory housing, and its values of conviviality, social connection, participation, solidarity, welcoming the other and sharing. 2/ for trainers formal and informal messages and learning have been designed.
Three French and Polish institutions and a Dutch university have succeeded in combining their specific skills and their educational, technical and transdisciplinary know-how, by combining them with the expertise of cultural associations and popular education on the subject of Parcipative Habitat. The MALTAE association has put its experience of integrated projects at the service of co-production combining mobility and learning activities, dissemination events and 6 intellectual productions. The additional 6 months associated with the Covid 19 have given even more space to intellectual production.

Three transnational face-to-face meetings were held. From March 2020, the coordination took place via videoconference. The project began with a trip to Tubingen, (TM 1) in Germany, the high place and “cradle” of participatory housing. The ICFA (Franco-German Cultural Institute) welcomed us. Then the relay provided by the Werkstadthaus played its full role in order to retain the pioneering experience of Tubingen. The one prepared in Poland, cancelled, in March 2020 was valued in the IO7 production “Flying to Europe and its 114 ways of living”.

Travel:March 2019: 5 mobility (C1 to C5) – all partners present for three days of visits to 14 habitats grouped in Belgium. Piloted by the association “Habitat and Participation”/
June 2019: Mobility C6 of Polish high schools in Hyères with the realization of a pedagogy route (Learning Territory)/ November 2019 (C7 and C8): the students of the TUe put in practice their new “professional” competence in the service of their young “customers”, to co-design with them in a role-playing game their Group Habitat/May 2019: the last cross-mobility and prepared (C9 and C10) have been cancelled.

Six intellectual productions have been created: All are acessible in the wesite of the project Habitat-cooperactif.eu
A multilingual site, with three functions of news, showcase and archive, that transmits the results, gives access to the productions and will last 4 years after the project
A film about a pioneering participatory habitat, innovative in the way it deals with history and evaluation, in open access, with YouTube subtitles and an interactive bilingual critical reading tool
A guide to 26 workshops and educational activities which invites reproducibility
A “flight for Europe and its 114 ways of living in Europe” with 13 created cultural itineraries
A vision of youth housing, through the return of a trilingual survey
A material library, a digital resource center, which were created on the subject, with entry by 4000 keys words and intended to be perregated
The photographic exhibition (and trilingual) “In’habitat: the territory as a European cultural construction” which crosses all productions.

The five dissemination events were able to be maintained despite the pandemic.
The innovation of the project was twofold: methodological contributions from the “learner territories” and the concept of a “permanent participatory project”. At its core, the central issue was participatory housing. It has been enriched by the following topics: hospitality, mobility, shared garden and the necessary task of cowriting the stories od tomorow, in particular, thanks to the partnerships of the JHADE (Solidarity share Garden), the Oiseaux de passage cooperative and the Bergerade Scoop. “It all starts in the garden” was one of those innovative messages. The MALTAE/CFPPA cooperation has broadened the subject to include rural issues. Finally, it was a question of calling on the HP players to ensure that the solidarity and reception of young people is integrated into the future HP.
200 people took part in the programmes, workshops or mobility; Another 200 at the dissemination events; 500 people responded to the survey on the young person’s housing, in workshops or online and finally more than 2000 high school students are indirectly impacted by the participation in the project of their school. The site further multiplies the number of people impacted.

Project Website

http://habitat-cooperactif.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 202064 Eur

Project Coordinator

MEMOIRE A LIRE TERRITOIRE A L’ECOUTE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Ekonomicznych im. ks. Janusza St. Pasierba
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN
• Centre de formation professionnel et de promotion agricoles
• Lycée Costebelle
• Deutsch-Französisches Kulturinstitut Tübingen e.V.
• Habitat et Participation asbl
• Werkstatt für Eigenarbeit e.V.