Reinventing the future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Reinventing the future

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: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Inclusion – equity; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation

Project Summary

This strategic partnership has been created to achieve the objective of equipping adult trainers and adults with new knowledge and tools for them to start developing innovative and sustainable projects in a collaborative way; this will also foment entrepreneurship and social inclusion among local citizens.

What causes a new project to fail, according to the investigation carried out by the Startegic Partnership members (Permacultura Cantabria, Crinnova, Learnmera) are insufficient confidence level and inadequate or non-existent tools and methodologies. This leads to the conclusion that as the Dragon Dreaming methodology clearly provides solutions to solve this problem, it is essential for this project. The strengths analysis conducted by the member organizations as well as their recent successful initiatives and actions will be beneficial for the project development; sharing their expertise and best practices combined with Dragon Dreaming methodology will intensify the impact of the project.

The participation of adult trainers and adults in developing new initiatives as well as designing, implementing and evaluating activities has been proven crucial by the organisations’ experience in the field of adult; it brings numerous benefits, such as higher self esteem, confidence, maturity and motivation levels and enriching the curriculum for future use.

MAIN OBJECTIVES:

To design a new and innovative Dragon Dreaming Methodology: This will be done by sharing the best practices.
To create didactic materials in which adult learners and adult people can acquire the Dragon Dreaming Methodology in an easy way.
To transfer to European countries the Dragon Dreaming Methodology through an effective dissemination campaign

MAIN ACTIVITIES:

A 3-day participatory visit in UK where CRINNOVA will share best practices in enterprenuership, gender equality and inclusion

A 3-day participatory visit in Finland where Sirius, new partner in Tuku Finland will share their good practices, initiatives and programmes of motivation and entrepreneurship witrh adults & youth training.

The best practices exchange was the basis for the creation of a new Dragon Dreaming Methodology with more inclusive, motivational and entrepreneurial features. Adult trainers and adult learners will have an easy way of learning this new methodology through an interactive book and a film (intellectual outputs) which will be created by our strategic partnership.

A 10-day course in Spain will be carried to test the effectiveness of the methodology and the interactive book. It will be attended by 10 participants of each entity, who will learn and experience a participatory and creative technique for project design and entrepreneurship called “Dragon Dreaming”.

The knowledge and tools acquired during the course will be further transferred onto other adult trainers and adult people through internal workshops, which will be organized by the direct participants of the training. This, along with the new methodology and intellectual outputs, will result helpful in the new project creation activities which will be carried out by local society members.
Implement a dissemination campaign involving the participation of main stakeholders to maximize the exploitation of the results and intellectual outputs (interactive book and film).

In order to review the working plan of the project, we will carry out 2 transnational meetings: Kick off in Spain and Evaluation Meeting in UK. 2 persons from each entity will attend.

IMPACT expected summary:

The participants will be more empowered and motivated; they will gain the ability of creating and managing sustainable projects putting into practice new Dragon Dreaming tools and skills; they will prove especially useful for working on topics such as inclusion of adults with fewer opportunities.

Strategic Alliance members will broaden their horizons regarding collaborating with other European entities and learned how to form a fruitful long term relationship with their members; they also will become more active in the European sustainable project field.

Enterpreneurship through Dragon Dreaming will become one of the Crinnovas´key elements for encouraging adults for creating projects with this methodology as a workframe.
Sirius from Turku, Finland will successfully gain attention and interest of more adult people in defining new projects and initiatives and also participating in them.

Permacultura Cantabria will get new techniques and points of view represented by partner organizations.

-Systemic

The interactive book and the film will bring more local adults together and empower them for searching for multilevel solutions for major issues in the modern society; a positive impact on their home countries has been noted.

Organisations and adults understand better that developing new sustainable initiatives and projects is important for creating an entrepreneur adult community.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 199729 Eur

Project Coordinator

CRINNOVA Solutions Ltd & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Learnmera Oy
• ASOCIACION CULTURAL Y MEDIOAMBIENTAL PERMACULTURA CANTABRIA
• SIRIUS, kansainvälinen nuorisoaloitteiden yhdistys ry