ACTIVATE Social Prescribing
Activate Social Prescribing for Community Learning promotes the principle of social prescribing to key adult education groups across the EU. As Europe emerges from Covid19, the wellbeing cost on our population is yet to be determined. Huge and overwhelming worries envelop our communities, sudden unemployment, weakened social institutions and eroded social capital. Social Prescribing is […]
Insites to Digital Cultural Heritage
Insites to Digital Cultural Heritage is reimaging how we create, protect and consume digital cultural heritage. It aims to upskill those cultural heritage custodians, VET providers and business mentors with immersive digital tourism skills. Cultural heritage tourism is a vital part of Europe’s economy with 8.4 million people employed in this sector and 4 out […]
INVOLVE
INVOLVE seeks to strengthen the visual literacy of entrepreneurs by introducing innovative visual literacy training into adult entrepreneurship education curriculum and courses. Visual literacy is about language, communication and interaction and as such is an increasingly crucial skill for today’s entrepreneurs. However, this importance has not yet led to its teaching being widely introduced […]
REVALORISE+
REVALORISE+ recognises that to date, policy-makers, research funders and university boards have prioritised pursuing the immediate returns of research valorisation through licencing and patenting of the so called ‘hard sciences’ (i.e STEM) over the more intangible, longer-term returns and social impact of activity in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). REVALORISE+ is a team of […]
Student Digital Civic Engagers
Students as Digital Civic Engagers is an exciting project that examines the best practices and benefits behind student civic engagement throughout the EU. Civic Engagement is any individual or group activity addressing issues of public concern. Active citizens form the backbone of a strong democracy, sustainable growth and an inclusive society. In addition, the process […]
Spanning Boundaries
Spanning Boundaries is an Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance project working to break down the barriers between academia and industry. It aims to empower university and business professionals to enhance their contribution in the regional economic and social development through closer engagement with each other and their environment. The need for individual ‘Boundary Spanners’ is increasingly deemed […]
Digital Social Impact
The Digital Social Impact project is inspired by the potential of technology and digital pedagogies (the ways we teach online) to create social impact. It will create a step change and future proof how European universities engage with and create impact in their wider communities. The social impact of a university is often aligned to […]
Include Me
The INCLUDE ME – Inclusion Through Mediation Project aims to empower learners, activists and migrants to become peer-to-peer mediators in their communities and their wider area. Mediation is a tool which is underutilised by many countries, communities and wider education and support groups, the main reason being a lack of understanding and education surrounding this […]
Include Her
INCLUDE HER is increasing the digital skills of HEI managers and academic staff to implement an innovative approach to empower female migrants in higher education to attain higher levels of digital skills, with the aim to redress the gender imbalance in the digital sphere. The digital gender gap is most acute among migrant/refugees who, as […]