CREATive Urban Sharing in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

CREATive Urban Sharing in Europe

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Environment and climate change; Social dialogue

Project Summary

BACKGROUND
The crisis had highlighted the major role which Adult Learning (AL) could play in achieving the Europe 2020 goals, by enabling adults — in particular the low-skilled and older workers — to improve their ability to adapt to changes in the labour market and society. AL provides a means of up-skilling or reskilling those affected by unemployment, restructuring and career transitions, as well as makes an important contribution to social inclusion, active citizenship and personal development.

REASON FOR THE PROJECT
This project was addressed to all mentioned flagship initiatives.
In effect, it was based on some elements:
– CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING METHODOLOGY: a 2010 IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs from 60 countries and 33 industries have identified the creativity as the most crucial skill for future success and leadership competency. Creativity is a critical skill that can be taught through a specific methodology starting from the understanding of the importance of the creative problem solving in daily life and stimulating the findings of alternative solutions and practical exercise to test and learn to think outside the box
– The ideas of SHARING AND COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION as alternative lifestyles where the participants share access to products or services, rather than having individual ownership–a way to rethinking consumerism in order to ensure more sustainable lifestyles
– ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION through the stimulation for a higher common benefit by changing the relationship within people living in the same urban areas
– The proportion of URBAN POPULATION of the overall population in Europe has a trend that is going to reach up 80% on the next years -ref. European Environment Agency (EEA)

The CREATIVITY was really important and could be applied in any context of the daily life. The “SHARING” was, in reality, a creative rethinking of not sustainable lifestyles: alternative approach to the waste and excesses of the consumerist society in order to preserve the environment especially in urban contexts

The project idea was actual and it was aimed to develop and integrate the experience coming from a previous project involving 3 of the partners (including the coordinator): a LLP Grundtivg Learning Partnership: “We Share” about collaborative consumption and sharing in Europe that was named as “Star Project”.

The PROJECT was about the learning to be creative in Urban areas thanks to the improvement of the level of key competences and skills of citizens. In effect, the beneficiary is anyone living in an urban area and that want to find creative and alternative ways to fell more active, connected with the neighbours and also find a local job coming from a stimulated entrepreneurship e.g. social enterprises.

OUTPUTS/RESULTS
The project aimed to:
• Research and in-depth analyse from across EU successful GOOD PRACTICE examples about creativity and sharing in Urban areas
• Promote the development, testing and implementation of INNOVATIVE PRACTICES/METHODOLOGIES in AL: Creative Problem Solving Methodology, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Open space Technology, World Cafè method, other resources and tools to promote, activate and driving a Shareable city etc.
• Transfer the knowledge about the METHODOLOGIES through a series of interactive GUIDE in order to promote the active citizenship, creativity and exploit the results to urban and local areas
• Create a WEBSITE integrated with Blog and Social Networks containing a DATABASE OF MATERIALS TRANSLATED into all partners’ National languages to promote and encourage an extensive exploitation and dissemination
• Stimulate ENTREPRENEURSHIP and mainly social entrepreneurship thanks to the methodologies acquired and to a deep knowledge of own local area’s needs
• Disseminate the project outputs and results throughout EU with a database of OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES available through open licences
• Create the staff profile “EXPERTS IN CREATIVITY AND SHAREABLE POLICIES” thanks to an intensive training and support on ECVET system and then recognised and validated by a specific Memorandum of Understanding
• Arrange a series of MULTIPLIER EVENTS involving a large number of stakeholders to foster exploitation and dissemination of PROJECT Intellectual Outputs.

IMPACT ENVISAGED
The partnership brought together partners coming from several countries and their stakeholders both public and private with the synergic power to reach a very large and diverse audience. The potential was to stimulate active citizenship, live better in the urban areas and also create job opportunities at local level.
The project activities were focused on the implementation of the European Agenda for AL in not-formal context enhancing the creativity through really innovative knowledge, skills and competences coming from the transferred Methodologies and detailed good practice guide ready-to-be-applied in other countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 290063 Eur

Project Coordinator

Youth Europe Service & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Agencia para el Empleo de Madrid
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BARI ALDO MORO
• Inova Consultancy ltd.
• KIRSEHIR VALILIGI
• Euro-Idea Fundacja Spoleczno-Kulturalna
• Aidlearn, Consultoria em Recursos Humanos Lda.
• Ministero dell’Istruzione, Università e Ricerca Scientifica – Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Campania