Gorm Media is an award-winning social enterprise on a mission to unify across differences and advance belonging for marginalised communities. Gorm's vision is to spark a movement of unity and shared understanding through innovative intercultural education, creative media, and events that captures the stories, nuances, and experiences of different and diverse people to advance social cohesion and belonging in society.
Our initiative is called "KOMPOSTO", taken from the literally translated word "Compost". The aim is to create a new culture through education, on the importance of composting food waste instead of throwing nutritious material away. It promotes waste-free circulation and awareness & it reinforces new habits in waste management. Composting in schools helps keep food waste out of landfills, which is acknowledged as one of the best and easiest ways to combat the climate crisis.
Uciber is a learning platform specialized in cybersecurity claiming to be accessible and easy to use for all the people to acquire the knowledge needed in the digital world.
The platform includes different materials starting from the initial topics about cybersecurity to more advance knowledge to allow students to develop their own cybersecurity solutions and to protect then in their activities in the digital transformation. The aims is to promote cybersecurity in the real world.
The inmaterial cultural heritage (ICH) education model developed by Ponte...nas ondas! (PNO!, Bridge on the waves) has been implemented for 27 years in 300 schools on both sides of the Portuguese-Galician border (see: http://opatrimonio.org). The PNO! model has been recenttly selected and awarded by UNESCO for the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices ICH (see: https://ich.unesco.org/en/BSP/portuguese-galician-border-ich-a-safeguarding-model-created-by-pontenas-ondas-01848 Selected).
This project promotes a multidisciplinary approach and aims at strengthening the connection between the fields of art, design and technology. Students of Design were introduced to newest technologies, approaches and concepts of Responsible design thus directing and mentoring them to design school projects principles of responsible production, consumerism and the environment. The results were presented at Budapest Design Week and at Mediterranean University in Podgorica
This is a project dedicated to developing an innovative methodology of teaching through experience - an edu - experiments for students, created through a series of trainings with teachers, will lead to a permanent change in the attitudes of recipients in respect for environment and shrinking natural resources. The education part is complemented by the investment element - green school yards, create with students to teach the value of cooperation and shared responsibility for surroundings.
The metropolitan park learning programme Aprenem a la Xarxa aims to foster links between the public and their parks, raising awareness of socio-environmental values and creating spaces for participation and experiential learning.
The parks are a perfect laboratory to grow through experiences and learn through interaction with the environment while improving it, with actions promoted by networking. This is a programme for discovering and experiencing the values of the metropolitan parks.
To generate critical and new insights into our value system in human-centred societal challenges the experimental approach of Research through Design (RtD) and the power of critical disability studies explores philosophical and strategic possibilities to identifying how design helps to improve the experience of being human, and not
necessarily the user experience of a disabled person in prosthesis design development
’Sounding the Underworld’ engages with the invertebrates and microorganisms that inhabit the world under our feet, a world that we take for granted, abuse and generally know very little about.
Interweaving an installation, citizen science workshops focused on local soils and a pilot study, the project will make audible the creatures that metabolize leaves, wood, grass and other carbon sources to create a healthy soil matrix, and forges a path towards understanding soil health.
Change Clothes Crumlin is a new, creative clothing reuse hub in Dublin, Ireland. We're creating a social community space for swapping, upcycling, mending, borrowing, learning, and meeting like-minded people. Everyone is welcome to take part in our events.
Our work in Crumlin includes:
- Running clothing swap shops
- Holding creative clothing upcycling and mending workshops
- Building a borrowing solution
- Creating accessible social space for learning more
www.changeclothes.org
