Process of reappropriation and transformation of the public space carried out with the children of the Ulenspiegel school in St-Gilles, in the form of workshops in situ, animations and participative building sites, with the main objectives of bringing more safety, nature and playfulness to the surroundings of their school, generating a strong feeling of belonging to their neighbourhood, of ownership and pride among the children.
How do you turn students in upper secondary education into entrepreneurs in the fight against plastic pollution?
2 years of active STEM based entrepreneurial curriculum building in the field a plastic pollution of the oceans with 4 very diverse upper secondary schools could be the answer. Partners from Denmark, Greece, French Polynesia, and Spain have teamed up via Erasmus+ to create motivating and innovative teaching materials on this very complex topic, and our European students bloom.
Today, many education systems foster the development and training of various skills like citizenship, critical thinking, problem solving and social skills. Many policy makers, scientists and teachers however disagree about how to develop and practise these skills. Cross-curricular teaching, in which lesson contents are often intertwined, is one of the ways to do so. Tracknteach wants to facilitate this search by providing proper analysis and insight in the structure of teaching activities.
SuperSibs are support groups for minors aged between 5 to 11 years of age who have siblings with disability. Through interactive games that are facilitated by experienced social workers within the disability sector siblings of persons with disability have the possibility to connect with others who are going through their same experience, share their difficulties, share their grief of not having their parents' full attention, but most important to build a sense of belonging and not excluded.
MLO was an international action-research project that aimed at promoting the practice of outdoor education through a play-based and physical activity approach in preschools. The motivation behind the project was to design a set of practical tools that could be useful to change this paradigm so that children in pre-schools use the outdoors as a place where they can learn and develop through outdoor play, autonomy, independent movement, contact with nature and their communities.
Sharing Lives offers opportunities where volunteers and persons with disabilities, from 18yrs and over, especially those who have little or no support, to
share experiences, create social interactions and befriend persons with disabilities. The service's befriending aspect will help initiate dialogue and collaboration between persons with disability and mainstream society.
Help local merchants with design strategies to be resilient against the competition of large businesses and online marketplace, so as not to lose the history and identity of the neighborhood. Make consumers aware of the importance of neighborhood businesses by humanizing businesses with personal stories.
Accessibility Seminars aim to provide comprehensive and understandable training for students, practitioners and anyone interested in creating more inclusive societies with people of different ages and abilities, such as people with disabilities, seniors, or children. Although it originated in the Architecture Degree and Master's, it has expanded through the years through different collaborations to address communication, videogames or even literature inclusive practices.
“Yourb. Innovatori Urbani” aims to innovate the communication and the exchange between citizens by intervening on the scarcity of educational paths in schools steered to promote a conscious attitude on individual and collective rights amongst younger generations. A format that responds to the need to activate citizenship with a bottom-up approach, through the training and dissemination of Design Thinking and Social Innovation, Design methodologies, turning students into real “urban innovators”.
A practical, curriculum linked programme which provides a unique opportunity to engage, educate, and empower primary school students to take a systems-based approach to closing material and energy loops when it comes to food and resource choices, and to simultaneously embed tangible, and positive, climate action at every stage of the process.
