Empowering teachers and trainers to cope with religious diversity and boost intercultural education in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Empowering teachers and trainers to cope with religious diversity and boost intercultural education 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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Ethics, religion and philosophy (incl. Inter-religious dialogue); Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Diversity, multiculturalisme and the related issues and challenges represent major concerns for the Member States of the European Union, whether from a social, political, educational or economic perspective
In this context, the B.LIVING project aims to develop a new European dimension on intercultural education in Vocational Education & Training (VET) and school education by addressing the religious diversity inherent to our multicultural societies, from the human rights and intercultural learning perspectives.
Innovative pedagogies, like the dialogic learning (learning that takes place through dialogue) and peer learning (which help students and learners to play an active role in the teaching-learning process) will be adapted and applied to the specific needs of the target groups of users and beneficiaries, in order to build intercultural settings in classrooms.
B.LIVING aims to empower teachers and trainers to cope with religious diversity and boost intercultural education in multicultural contexts in the formal, non-formal and informal training environments. 3 main objectives were reached:
– Support teachers and trainers in teaching religious diversity and intercultural education in formal, non-formal and informal contexts.
– Provide teachers and trainers with innovative practical tools that are ready to use or to adapt to the specific needs and contexts of school training centers, vocational training centers and adults training.
– Provide teachers and trainers with a set of Open Educational Resources (OER) for school, vocational and adult education professionals.

The above objectives were reached by developping 4 intellectual outputs, namely:

1. The B.LIVING Curriculum, based on the European ECVET framework and addressed to VET teachers and tutors for the assessment, validation and recognition of learning outcomes for teaching religious diversity and interculturalism. As well as setting a framework for the assessment of learning outcomes based on the ECVET methodology and Tools.
2. The B.LIVING Handbook aims to provide in depth information about basic concepts, definitions and innovative methodological approaches for handling religious diversity in positive and dialogical ways in the classroom settings and in non-formal and informal learning environments.
3. The B.LIVING Toolbox, consists of a useful set of practical activities based on the B.LIVING Handbook with innovative practical tools to support educators in the teaching of religious diversity and intercultural education, in formal, non-formal and informal settings. It is a resource of practical information for the direct implementation of innovative methods in intercultural education addressing religious diversity. It contains a set of practical tools and methods adapted to the specific needs of our users and beneficiaries of the project.
4. The B.LIVING training Platform & Application, a set of practical tools addressed to both educators and learners to raise awareness and develop knowledge on different elements related with religious diversity and interculturalism.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 218846 Eur

Project Coordinator

CIEP asbl & Country: BE

Project Partners

• INSTITUTO PARA EL FOMENTO DEL DESARROLLO Y LA FORMACION SL
• ASDAN
• IASIS
• MANISA IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
• ELearning Studios Ltd
• BEST INSTITUT FUR BERUFSBEZOGENE WEITERBILDUNG UND PERSONALTRAINING GMBH