Blended Montessori-Creative Technologies approach for successful inclusion in Multicultural Schools (MonTech) project will foster social inclusion and equity in multicultural schools across Europe through highly innovative and engaging activities based on a new approach that blends the Montessori method with cutting-edge Maker Education learning experiences.

The main objective of MonTech is to foster the social inclusion of children with refugee, migrant, or minority backgrounds in their school environment. The first specific objective is to support educators that are teaching in multicultural schools to effectively increase their educational performance by implementing activities inspired by a new approach (Montessori + Creative Technologies). The second specific objective is the measurable increase of the educational performance of these children.

PARTNERS

Seville Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation- Spain

Lapland University of Applied Sciences- Finland

Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Vratsa- Bulgaria

Marche Region- Italy

North Aegean Region- Greece

Experience Bremerhaven, Tourism, Marketing and Events Company- Germany

Carlow County Council- Ireland

PORA Regional Development agency of Koprivnica Križevci County- Croatia

Young people aged 15-24 represent 20% of the African population but over 40% of the total unemployed people in Africa. There arises the need to encourage young people in Africa to pursue vocational education, and to better connect the existing vocational education structures with the private sector, and the labour market in general. Therefore, the aim of this project is to upskill VET in African countries (Cape Verde, Senegal, Kenya) in order to increase employability of young people and to connect VET with the rising sectors of the labour market in the private sector. A sector that can be targeted for this initiative is the cultural tourism sector. African countries have a wealth of local assets that can serve as a motivation for cultural, green, and responsible tourists to visit the continent. In this project, we aim to create channels of communication between VET centres and the private sector, to create a joint vocational education curriculum on green, cultural, circular, responsible tourism among the partner countries of Europe and Africa, to strengthen the connection between vocational education and work, by introducing the concept of micro-credentials and to provide opportunities to students for Green Apprenticeships/Mentoring with private sector professionals The following steps will be taken in order to achieve the objective: creation of local and international networks, focus groups with the created networks (first local, then international) in order to assess the educational needs associated with employment in the touristic sector, and to create the learning objectives and micro-credentials, development of a joint qualification profile and joint curriculum, organisation of blended courses on the issue, organisation of e-apprenticeships (digital exchange) of students to private institutions from other partner countries and assessment of students, and awarding of micro-credentials in a digital portfolio.

The vision of MOVE2CCAM is to:

Explore the multisystems impact of CCAM passenger and freight solutions; define use cases, business models and Key Performance Indicators through co-creation activities with the “MOVE2CCAM Satellites”, & develop a practical system dynamics-based impact assessment tool that will enable the evaluation of CCAM interventions’ impact on mobility-, socio-economic-, public health- and environmental-related aspects considering diverse European region specifics and different actors’ needs, objectives and perceptions.

GreenHeritage aims at developing a holistic, innovative and inclusive approach toward direct and indirect climate change (CC) impact on intangible cultural heritage (ICH), a topic which has received little or no attention at all.

The project seeks innovative tools and methodologies able to promote adaptive and systemic approaches to better manage CC. The GreenHeritage proposal aspires to function as an urgent reminder that climate change is present, affecting both directly and indirectly all aspects of Europe’s cultural heritage. It is also an urgent call to stir up collective action.

The project’s main objective is to improve the employability skills and work opportunities for Culture and Creative Young Professionals (CCYPs) working and/or living in rural areas and to reduce the existing gap between the educational world and labour market by diversification of career paths and skills recognition. Essentially with this improvement CCYPs will have the opportunity to have increased access to national and EU funding programmes which will enable them to start their own company, or share their artistic know-how in projects for fostering arts and culture in education or even using art and culture as a means to achieve the objectives of several EU programmes, for example the AMIF or CERV programmes. In addition, the project aims to provide the CCYPs with the opportunity to exchange best-practises and know-how and at the same time connect with business partners and cultural and artistic institutions on a national or European level.

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DESCRIPTION

Cinematopedia is a project which aims to empower cinemas in the local communities and enhance local cultural life and social inclusion through the creation of innovative cultural hubs around cinema. The target areas are locations, rich in cultural heritage but very week cinema offer, especially when it refers to European quality content. In order to achieve these objectives the project is going to organise a variety of cinema events including:

OBJECTIVES

The general objective of the project is to empower cinemas in the local communities and enhance local cultural life and social inclusion through the creation of innovative cultural hubs around cinema.

The specific objectives of the project are the following:

1. To develop the cinema audience and offer increased quality cinema opportunities to local communities with small cinema infrastructure
2. To raise awareness to the local audience in relation with the European cinema
3. To increase the audiovisual and cinema literacy among members of the local communities involved
4. To increase the networking between cinema operators and other cultural actors active in the community (such as libraries, museums etc)