<< Objectives >>The project leverages artivism (art + activism) to promote youth engagement via different media and modes of expression. It aims to:- spur innovation for addressing disadvantaged youth and provides new opportunities for their participation in democratic life;- create a cooperative platform for civic engagement that links disadvantaged youth with artists and scientists;- adopt an impact-based approach focused on youth and support them to explore how the whole learning path makes sense to them.<< Implementation >>- Open Labs with artists and climate scientists to deliver art-based works and interventions;- Platform enabling learning and contributing to creating a community of practice as a relevant response to the ongoing disempowerment of youth to assemble en-masse in public;- Self-reflection tools deployed through the creation of personalized zines (small narrative booklets), that allow learners and partners to understand how the empowerment and learning process unfolds for youth.<< Results >>CLICA will organize Youth Assemblies at the local and EU levels that will turn into permanent Local Change Labs at the end of the project. Partners will define a strategy for their sustainability and capacity of impacting on active participation and improved youth agency and policymaking in the long run.CLICA helps youth acquiring competences needed for employability and social inclusion, among creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, resilience in a time of rapid and profound change.

<< Objectives >>The main objective is to raise awareness about green skills and professions of the future that revolve around sustainability and target the sector of tourism, eventually boosting green economy. It benefits youth entering workforce by informing them, municipal employees by training them on how to approach the topic and organize capacity building events, and creates lasting synergies between stakeholders on national level by matching NGOs and local authorities, as well as transnational synergies.<< Implementation >>The activities will cover every aspect of the project: networking with local authorities, Universities, NGOs and industry; exchange of good practices, capacity building, co-creation between participants and mentoring, policy making, research, desk analysis and dissemination. Each partner and especially the newcomers will plan and organize the activities that better match their expertise and get additionally involved in other activities with the purpose of improving their own skillset.<< Results >>-One training program on environmental protection and link to tourism-One training program on capacity building and change management at workplace targeting green skills-A learning platform to host materials, methodology-Policy recommendations, case studies, audiovisual materials-A website to host the above-Annual progress reports and a final report-A complete online training program prior to the co-creation workshops promoting blended learning-High quality dissemination materials

Thirty years ago, the internet, social media and smartphones had not been invented. Yet a generation later, almost every facet of our individual, public and -now- online life are dominated by the fast-pacing digital transformation. Last year we saw the privacy and data of millions of social media users compromised with little to no accountability for those responsible, national elections influenced by users in different states, news outlets struggling to convince readers of facts, and the European Union taking proactive measure to protect the data privacy of its citizens in its first transnational regulatory action. Yet, the digital literacies and capabilities necessary for citizens to thrive in a digital society and act as responsible and effective participants, are unequally distributed across the European cultural, economic and social strata, with the public sphere consequently rapidly dissolving. ARTSFORMATION will respond through research, innovation and applied artistic practice to these societal challenges, by equitably developing the capacity of artists and citizens alike -including those from geographically remote, socio-economically excluded minority, refugee and migrant backgrounds- to respond cohesively in making their communities and groups resilient and adaptive in the 4th Industrial Revolution.

SySTEM 2020 will focus on science learning outside the classroom, mapping the field across Europe, evaluating a number of transdisciplinary programmes to design best principles for educators in this field, and also examining individual learning ecologies by piloting self-evaluation tools for learners which will document science learning outside of the classroom. This study will map practices in 19 EU countries, including in-depth studies in 8 of these countries, covering learners between 9 - 20 years from various backgrounds including those from geographically remote, socio-economically disadvantaged, minority and/or migrant communities.

Collaborative Collisions aims at harnessing the full potential of non-formal science education, culture and the arts, to equip diverse cross-generational learners between 15-30 years of age with a range of competences, among them creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving and resilience, as well as digital competence, which will empower them to address current and future large-scale societal and environmental challenges traversing our European community.This goal will be achieved through novel art-science virtual residencies, bringing together cohorts of learners and job seekers in direct collaboration with communities of practice in the arts, culture, science, and research, to create long-term creative partnerships as drivers for job creation, economic growth, improved social cohesion, as well as a means to experience, accept and engage European identity in all its diversity.The project leverages (i) informal job-shadowing, with young people allowed to go throughout the complete unedited creative process of artists and scientists, (ii) micro-mentoring by taking advantage of cross-generational mentoring as a powerful tool for inspiring youth with their transition from education to work and to better face uncertainties about their future, and (iii) self-reflection, where young learners will plunge into the creation of individualized handmade booklets of varying size and format (zines) to reflect upon the STEM subjects as intertwined by their own personal experiences, value and identities, and the whole process of creative thinking.Partners from Italy, Ireland, Greece and Hungary will explore the potential of new forms of cultural experiences and dissemination by enhancing the Science Gallery digital Rapid Residency model as pioneered by Trinity College Dublin - Science Gallery Dublin. They will challenge these well-grounded models and will undertake an experimental innovation process that will drill down to specific aspects of format and duration, interaction and collaboration modes and tools, content and strategies for audience development, finally enabling more collaborative and interactive creative art-science projects pursued in tandem with young beneficiaries.The project will ultimately test and evaluate if and how COVID-19 may act as a catalyst and accelerator for a digital value-adding transition to a virtual incarnation of artistic residencies, and if this digital migration is successful in terms of social inclusion and sustainability.