Eurospectives 2.0 –digital storytelling curricula for participation and citizenship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Eurospectives 2.0 –digital storytelling curricula for participation and citizenship

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

EUROSPECTIVES 2.0, the follow up of the finalized strategic partnership “We are all digital natives”, stands for training and encouraging European learners in telling their stories, their perspectives.

Digital Storytelling is a way to engage and empower learners and teachers. By telling and sharing stories in the digital era, they can intervene, interact and change with their everyday environment, by fostering their feeling of public ownership and citizenship.
“Digital storytelling,” combines the longstanding art of storytelling with the use of a variety of multimedia tools. This type of activity can generate interest, attention and motivation for “digital education”. The process capitalizes on the creative talents of learners who will develop their communication skills by learning to organize their ideas, ask questions, express opinions, and construct narratives.
Since the digital aspect of storytelling is including non-verbal communication and expression, it is an inclusive approach, which can be facilitated especially by disadvantaged learners such as refugee, handicapped, poorly educated and long-term unemployed. The approach enables learners to discover their creativity and to improve their position on the job market through their new skills.

The EUROSPECTIVES 2.0 project identifies smart practice methods and turn them into a state-of-the-art training module curriculum, integrating digital storytelling into lifelong learning experience. EUROSPECTIVES 2.0 was 30 month long project with one month extension. The outcomes are delivered through the following main activities:

1. Evaluation of 12 smart practices of using digital storytelling for educational purposes.
2. Development of the training module curriculum based on the smart practices.
3. Testing of the curriculum in different teaching environments provided by three training courses.
4. Dissemination of the results and outputs following the project dissemination matrix. The project’s web site and two multiplier events as the core of this activity.

The main results and outputs of the project are:
1. Development of a sustainable strategic partnership for ongoing collaboration and sharing of smart practice.
2. A website to support digital storytellers, digital community reporters, organisations and facilitators.
3. Policy recommendations for implementing digital storytelling as method for teaching 21st century literacy.
4. An eBook of the digital storytelling training curriculum and its summary in all project languages
Additional result:
5. Interactive online multinodular training and curriculum with an open access on genial.ly platform (https://view.genial.ly/604fb1b3bde3430d89980f92/interactive-content-eurospectives-storylines).

Within EUROSPECTIVES 2.0 each partner shared its specific experiences and skills:

Crossing Borders – coordinator, active in youth and adult education. Sharing expertise in dissemination, and youth work, qualifying trainer and volunteers;
Comparative Research Network e.V. – active in adult education, sharing expertise in curriculum building, digital
storytelling methods and evaluation systems;
Ellinogermaniki Agogi – active in ‘teaching teachers’ – vocational, primary and secondary education. Sharing expertise in digital curriculum building, digital classrooms and dissemination;
People’s Voice Media – active in qualifying community reporter, sharing expertise in curriculum building, certification and qualification of trainer;
COSV Italy – active in training trainers and project manager, working with migrants. Sharing expertise in media methodology, dissemination and qualification in non-formal education;
CFR Vigo -is working on the digitalization of classrooms in primary and secondary education, by supporting teacher who want to initiate projects;
Institut Cultura 21 – is a provider of non-formal participatory education. The partner has experience in civic education and has a deep knowledge on using storytelling and media literacy methods with various age groups.

EUROSPECTIVES 2.0 plays a direct effect on approximately 4000 people through the meetings, trainings, dissemination activities and the two multiplier events. The long term benefits of the project are the integration of digital storytelling tool in teaching curriculum especially tailored for disadvantaged learners: persons with disabilities, coming from marginal groups and/or suffering from communication problems. Indirect long term impact is the increase of digital literacy and active citizenship among people living in marginal situation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 214729 Eur

Project Coordinator

Crossing Borders & Country: DK

Project Partners

• Institut Cultura 21 e.V.
• COMPARATIVE RESEARCH NETWORK EV
• CFRVigo
• COORDINAMENTO DELLE ORGANIZZAZIONI PER IL SERVIZIO VOLONTARIO
• ELLINOGERMANIKI AGOGI SCHOLI PANAGEA SAVVA AE
• PEOPLE’S VOICE MEDIA