KAUZ – Werkstatt für Klima, Arbeit und Zukunft Erasmus Project

Project Title

KAUZ – Werkstatt für Klima, Arbeit und Zukunft

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The ecological limits of our planet make major changes in our European way of life inevitable. In their well-established work, “The imperial mode of living”, university professors Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen have shown how our mode of living leads to global unsustainable development and causes rapid climate crisis. The choice our society has to make is whether prospective social changes will be by design or by disaster. In the project KAUZ we provide education for adults to empower them to take action for a Just Transition towards a solidary mode of living, that secures workers’ rights and livelihoods during the shift towards an ecologically sustainable mode of production that counteracts climate crisis and protects biodiversity.

The main OBJECTIVE of the project is to create a high quality blended educational package on the imperial and solidary mode of living, and Just Transition which promotes active citizenship, for which as underlying METHODOLOGY we will apply the Global Citizenship Education and Education for Sustainable Development concepts.

For this purpose we will create four different intellectual outputs that can be used by NGOs and adult educators to raise awareness for these issues:
(1) We will create 4 workshop programs including teaching and learning material providing profound education on the project’s topics.
(2) We will create a coherent educational series of microlearnings to be shared via social media and reach a broad audience. It will comprise images, infographics, comics and short videos together with short text that can be consumed within three minutes inciting light bulb moments.
(3) We will shoot educational videos comprising whiteboard animation clips explaining key terms, and thought-provoking talks with leading field experts. They will be included as content for discussion in our workshop series, while at the same time being (re)usable as standalone learning content.
(4) By creating a podcast-series, we want to reach out to people on their way to work, while doing chores, doing sports etc. In two distinct programs, on one hand, interviews will be held with everyday-role models – from farmers and employees to activists – about their strategies to defy a resource consuming lifestyle; on the other hand, experts will discuss project related topics such as sustainable development, ecological and fair production and consumption.

The test-workshops will include a total of 240 PARTICIPANTS, the multiplier events 220 multipliers and the project’s online learning will reach up to several 1000s.
Our target group divides into two sub-groups: firstly, adult education professionals, particularly those working in the field of sustainability; secondly and as final beneficiaries, persons of employable age between 18 and 65 open to explore alternative, solidary ways of living and production. We chose this group because our intellectual outputs lay a focus on the topic of work and production.

To ensure the LONG-TERM BENEFITS of the project, all content will be made available for download on a newly created website. Further, a database will be established, containing institutions, organizations, networks and dedicated individual multipliers which can be approached to hold workshops and disseminate the educational package.
Through a distinct future plan and the active search for sustainable sources of financing to conduct the workshops and create even more microlearnings, videos and podcasts will guarantee sustainability of the project’s outcomes, even after the project’s funding period has ended. Therefore we intend to gain a certain degree of prominence and to raise interest for participation in additional countries.

ACTIVITIES
Two TRAININGS will be held:
1) Train-the-trainer for two workshops and an expert training on framing and moderation skills
2) Train-the-trainer for two workshops, peer-learning via the exchange of experiences, expert training on organizing and funding activities beyond the project’s lifetime to ensure long lasting success.
Four MULTIPLIER EVENTS events are planned as a travelling exhibition “On the unstoppable path to a solidary way of living” with stopovers in all the partner countries.

RESULTS AND IMPACT
A network will be established between four different institutions, which have experience with the concept of the imperial mode of living, the solidary mode of living, an ecologically sustainable Just Transition, with designing digital and face-to-face teaching material for adults and teachers, and with implementing trainings for adults and teachers in AT, DE, I and HR.

The project promotes active citizenship via interactive tools and the creation of lasting networks among the target audience.
The intended impact of the project is the empowerment of adult learners to take part in a Just Transition that aims at transforming European societies towards ecological and sustainable development as promoted in the New Green Deal of the European Union.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 309278 Eur

Project Coordinator

Common Future e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• LIBERA UNIVERSITA DI BOLZANO
• Periskop – Kollektiv für solidarischen und ökologischen Wandel
• Ustanova za obrazovanje odraslih Dante
• Universität Siegen