Homo Data in the Anthropocene Era Erasmus Project

Project Title

Homo Data in the Anthropocene Era

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; Environment and climate change; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

CHALLENGE
To prepare the European youth to new environment challenges brought about by two converging accelerations: an economic and a digital one, which are creating a new environment they need to be prepared to.

Never before had a generation been entrusted with such complex, extended challenges. Young people are facing crucial issues regarding their future and the planet’s, as a living space for people.
Indeed, our era is characterised by an acceleration observed in multiple areas related to technical mutations.

Among those accelerations, we can point out two that present opportunities, threats and challenges, and revolutionise the environment in which our youth is developing:
-an ecologic one that has prompted some to talk about a change of age, calling it “Anthropocene”, considering that the influence of human beings on their environment has reached such a level that it is now similar to a geological force.
-a digital one that has brought the notion of “homo data”.

Therefore, the project aims to help prepare young people to the new environment awaiting them, in three steps:
1. Studying how political, societal and educational spheres address these challenges.
2. Raising awareness in the educational sector.
3. Offering resources to make teachers work easier and more optimal in a logic of European transferability.

TARGET
12 to 20 year-old European people, future citizens and ambassadors of the European climate leadership, who, in their adulthood, will have to successfully carry out the low carbon transition.
This generation was born in a world of technologies, of commonplace data collection, without always access to tools for distancing, particularly with respect to marketing or social media, with all the risks and misuses that we know, starting with fake news.
Teachers, who support young people in daily life and who will be an intermediate target and act as a lever.

AXIS 1
Study on the situation in Europe
We will start from a study to determine how education systems address environment and digital issues, particularly in curricula and related subjects.
Teachers will be questioned about how they address those problems through quantitative and qualitative surveys, while trying to identify their needs in tools and training.

PRODUCTION 1
Collection, review of data, and writing and disseminating the study based on this survey.
AXIS 2
Teacher awareness/training
Young people spend most of their time at school, giving teachers the opportunity to address those issues.
While some subjects provide more opportunities to address those topics, with the necessary motivation, the whole school community can find the opportunity to do it. The second axis will thus aim to raise awareness and provide staff with knowledge and skills to realise the interest of engaging in this approach.

PRODUCTION 2
Implementation of a teacher awareness/training tool based on different resources and activities supported by an e-learning platform created for this purpose.
This production will include expert conferences on those topics, enhanced with more interactive tools such as webinars and a hybrid on-site/digital training session.

AXIS 3
Once the teacher awareness/training has been carried out, they will need tools and resources to make work with students easier and more optimal.

PRODUCTION 3
Availability of a toolbox with supports and work methods, using the e-learning platform further, to accompany young people towards:
– awareness of their and humanity’s future
– exploration of modalities of action, counter, alternative approaches.

Those educational scenarios will be based on experiments and role-plays to let students discover by themselves the challenges in:
-the environment
-the categorisation of human beings in data in relation to the principle of fundamental freedom
-real/virtual (in)differentiation and risks

We will favour:
-interdisciplinary project-based learning to reach widespread involvement and highlight points of agreement
-cooperative group works to prepare for collaborative dynamics that will be necessary in the low carbon society.

In the end, we want to show young people that technologies carry the worst and the best, and that they have the power to choose solutions that will help them develop, making them freer and closer to founding European values.

Project Website

https://anthropocene.pixel-online.org/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 285904,1 Eur

Project Coordinator

RESEAU NATIONAL D’ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR PROFESSIONNEL PRIVE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Haute Ecole Libre Mosane
• Centre National de Formation de l’Enseignement Technique Privé
• FUNDATIA EUROED
• CIPAT
• INITIATIVES POUR UNE FORMATION EFFICACE ASBL
• PIXEL – ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE
• UNIVERSITATEA ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA DIN IASI