Cultural Social Innovation Europe
COVID-19 has exposed the vulnerabilities of lower skilled adults and young people by exacerbating the digital divide. Strategically, the pandemic has impacted career opportunities and mental health, accelerating the imperative need to provide adults and young people with “skills to improve and adapt” in a rapidly changing environment.
To meet these challenges will require huge creativity and collaboration from education providers. But traditionally, adult education services are resource intensive, slow, top-down and lack use of digital pedagogies. However, social innovation offers a new pathway and has been advanced intensively by the creative and cultural industries. Recognizing the cultural sector as a place where “social, community and digital innovations take place” highlights the need to involve small scale creative actors to share and adopt the diverse innovation being developed in their environment.
For this reason, CSI:EU project brings together specialists in adult learning with leaders of outstanding arts and culture institutions to work together to develop social innovation projects with young adults in cultural and creative spaces to tackle current and local issues presented by the pandemic.
The objective of CSI:EU is clear: to empower adults and young people most affected by COVID to become confident cultural social innovators and design innovative (digital) solutions to challenges posed by the crisis. In so doing they will develop valuable transversal, digital and employment related skills and improve their own mental health.
Project Outputs:
Cultural Social Innovation Guide: to map various case studies of cultural social innovation in Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, and the UK, with the aim to:
raise awareness and commitment to introducing Cultural Social Innovation (CSI) into the education of adults and young people, and
to inspire and cultivate the creativity skills that are essential in the culture-based social innovation process, aided with the use of digital tools.
2. Digital Transformation Toolkit: The toolkit follows on from the in-depth research undertaken in the aforementioned guide. While the Guide to cultural social innovation is research based, the Toolkit is centred on practical guidance and tools for adult and youth educators wishing to incorporate cultural social innovation activities into their training and teaching strategies, with a particular focus on increasing their confidence in using digital tools.
CSI EU Toolbox.pdfOur toolkit is designed to teach you OUR TOP 20 TOOLS in under an hour each. It follows a simple four step process and our hope and aim is to encourage you to try one or two tools initially, gauge the impact for yourself then learn some more!
3. Cultural Social Innovation Hackaton and Guide - Intensive 1- or 2-day cultural social innovation trainings for both adult/youth educators and a Hackathon with youngsters on how to carry out/develop CSI projects - HU national events planned to hold in March 2023.
Partners
Denmark
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action type: Strategic Partnerships in the field of adult education
ID: 2020-1-UK01-KA227-ADU-094497
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