Project Description

INTREP – Fostering social innovation and entrepreneurship in intercultural and interreligious contexts

Project Nr.: 2021-1-BE01-KA220-ADU-000033680

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Living in intercultural and interreligious communities is at the same time fascinating and demanding. The need to empower the present and future generations with the appropriate knowledge, competences, skills, and tools necessary to exchange, communicate and cooperate across cultural, religious and national boundaries is greater than ever since we are gradually acquiring the role of global citizens seeking to live in a safer world.

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The European Erasmus+ KA2 Project “INTREP” has gathered a multi-stakeholder partnership of eight organizations experts in social innovation and entrepreneurship, interculturality and inter-religious dialogue and Adult Community Education (ACE), from Belgium, Spain, Austria, Turkey, Greece, Romania and Ireland, in order to analyze the main needs that intercultural and interreligious communities are facing.

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The objectives of the project are:

  • Promote social inclusion and diversity in intercultural and interreligious communities though Adult Community Education
  • Support adult and community teachers and educators to foster social innovation and entrepreneurship in these communities, accessing to tools and methods for professionalization and professional development
  • Apply the Adult Community Education (ACE) approach encouraging intercultural and inter-religious dialogue and peer and collaborative learning.
  • Design, test, adapt and apply new methodologies and ICT-based tools to train Adult and community teachers and educators to co-create online courses on social innovation and entrepreneurship, and tailor-made mobile learning activities to be used by adult students in intercultural and interreligious communities

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The Consortium consists of the following organizations:

  1. IASIS
  2. Asociación La Bien Pagá Espacio Escénico
  3. INNOQUALITY SYSTEMS LIMITED
  4. INSTITUTO PARA EL FOMENTO DEL DESARROLLO Y LA FORMACION SL
  5. ISTANBUL VALILIGI
  6. LE MONDE DES POSSIBLES ASBL
  7. CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE TIMISOARA ASOCIATIA
  8. KIST Consult e.U.

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The target users are adult and community teachers and educators and the final beneficiaries are adult students

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Outputs

 

  1. Training curriculum in social innovation and entrepreneurship in intercultural and interreligious contexts through ACE
  2. A Learning Units Plan of learning experiences, activities and types of learning addressed to adult and community teachers and educators
  3. E-Learning Campus, an ICT-based educative instrument to upskill adult and community teachers and educators allowing them to create their own e-learning courses
  4. Instructional Web App, an innovative ICT-based tool for adult and community teachers and educators, allowing them to develop customized online Learning Activities
  5. Recommendations for skills validation, certification and accreditation on social innovation and entrepreneurship in intercultural and interreligious contexts through ACE.

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