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The disruptive digital transformations are challenging ways of participation, the feeling of trust and understanding between people. The digital divide is a threat to social and cultural participation for millions of Europeans. But the technology also has the potential to enhance social cohesion, inclusion and enlightenment. Digital literacy is becoming - as formal literacy is - indispensable to participate in society, and training needs to address real needs and be accessible to those who really need it.In the project, we will build a network of partners that will design learning activities by activating resources in the local community. In developing the activities the partners will use Design thinking to best meet the needs of the target group. The target groups vary from activity to activity and to partner to partner, but will mainly be seniors, young adults neither in education, employment, or training, refugees/immigrant or low-skill adults. By developing and offering social creative learning activities, 200-300 participants will build digital competencies and get help in joining their community by building relations both in the digital and physical world. This can have a huge impact on their potential for participation in society, and thus their quality of life.The goal of the strategic partnership is to develop and research practical learning activities for digital skills, and to understand how we best can collaborate in our communities to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. The Partners will develop an Open Digital Inclusion Network to build competencies and capacities to develop their role as public educators. The partners will work together in an online communication platform and in annual project meetings, where we will invite participants from other networks working with digital inclusion to build bridges across networks in Europe.Libraries have always had an objective of public education and enlightenment. In recent years, we have seen a development in the ways learning is facilitated and delivered. Learning centres, Makerspaces, Studios, and Labs have popped up around the bookshelves and has made creative activities possible. We also experience the need to work across organizations and disciplines to help users solve their real work problems, and we need to be more able to collaborate with our communities. There are very little literature and research on library didactic and on effects of this kind of social, creative, informal learning, and the project want to gain more knowledge to be able to successfully develop this social way of learning further. We will do research on how libraries work as connectors in local network building, that is how libraries develop intra-community ties and how do they link different community organizations together.Physical and digital meeting points are essential for participation in our society. The activities in the project will empower and strengthen participants through building digital competencies - to facilitate personal development, as well as participation in civic, social and political life. The project will contribute to social inclusion by fighting the digital divide and use information and data literacy as a means to build trust, understanding, and communities. The library owners will through the project get more knowledge about how their libraries function as a public educator and a facilitator for inclusion. Participating organizations will learn more about challenges and barriers for inclusion, and will learn a methodology of human-centred design, and get to know partners that are working in innovative ways.The project is following up on the “Paving the way for essential skill houses” (Erasmus+ 2017). The project will contribute to UNs Sustainable Development Goal 4 : Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning for all.
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