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IMPLEMENTATION OF SCALE ACTIVITIES (ACLs)

 

GEINNOVA organised through the SCALE funded Erasmus+ project a piloting activity at the ‘Colegio San Vicente de Paúl’ on 15/03/2023. The activity plan was developed and implemented by Geinnova’s staff, consisting of Micol Petrone, Michela Orrù and Alessandro Marconi. The target group was a class of 20 students aged around 12, supported by their English teacher Carmen Pinilla.

The program of activities was developed by combining the principles of ACLs and the theme of climate change. Applied Creativity Labs (ACLs) equip children and young people with the creative behaviors and thinking skills needed in order to develop innovative solutions to real world challenges. Young people are presented with an overview of a real world ‘challenge’ (ie. Climate change) and then receive bespoke creativity training, which builds their creative capacity to generate solutions.

Creative skills are essential for life, learning and future work: they are highly valued by employers and international organizations such as the World Economic Forum, as they develop positive attitudes, flexibility and openness to new challenges. Additional employability skills are developed such as teamwork, communication, leadership, critical thinking and problem solving. These skills enable young people to be successful in their learning and future careers.

During the ACL implementation in SPAIN, Geinnova’s team worked with young students aged 12 starting with an icebreaker activity called “bish, bosh, what are you doing?”

Then, GEINNOVA staff showed a presentation on climate change, its effects and consequences; supplemented by an overview of ACLs methodologies. The games supplied as ACLs activity combined to the climate change topic were:

– Quiz about climate change

– If climate change was an animal

– If climate change’s solution was an animal

– I don’t like your idea

– Recycling

The recycling activity consisted of using empty plastic bottles in order to create plant pots. To stimulate students’ creativity, they were also provided with materials to decorate the pots. The plants chosen to be grown were lentils, grown in cotton balls. The choice is justified by the fact that these seedlings will need daily care, so as to empower the students.

The main objective of ACLs is the creative problem-solving process, following some steps: 

– Clarify the task

– Think divergently

– Choose an idea

– Think convergently

– Do it in practice

– Refine and improve

– Present

– Review the process

Students embraced the project and activities with enthusiasm, actively participating and practicing the methodologies administered. The result was a good 3-hour lesson on climate change, which allowed the class to think actively and critically about the topic.

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Projects

WE Project

2022-1-LV01-KA220-ADU-000087786

Real-World Education to foster environmental awareness

Objectives:

Produce a series of tools to support the introduction of the skills of ESD and Environmental Awareness in Adult Education, contributing to the creation of a learning path for both:

The adult educators;

Adults NEETs and especially those coming from socially or economically vulnerable communities.

The specific objectives:

Increase the knowledge of AE trainers and low skilled Adults in regards to available learning opportunities and good practices in the field of Environmental Awareness and SDGs, and ESD

Provide an up to date analysis of the development of Environmental Adult Education in the partner countries, and a needs analysis of the adult educators and low-skilled adults in the field of sustainable development. This analysis could be also used as a useful tool for policy adoptions, especially on the local–regional level with a bottom-up approach.

Implementation:

The WE project to produce its envisaged results will implement the following categories of activities:

Project Management and Implementation Activities,

7 Multiplier events in each partner country,

3 Transnational project meetings,

Work packages production activities.

Partners:

Latvia, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Denmark and Spain.

Acronym: WE

Start Date: 31-12-2022

End Date: 30-12-2024

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