Methodology
As Europe builds towards “active inclusion”, with the purpose of boosting “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth” (European Strategy 2020), how can we all be inspired by UNESCO’s SDG 3 (health and wellbeing), SDG 4 (‘towards inclusive and equitable education and lifelong learning for all) and SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities)?
The LIDA project develops and disseminates examples of cultures of learning inclusion and active citizenship. It has targeted distant, online, and blended delivery modes in its workshops, talks, and other forms of education and training.
The project has been inspired by UNESCO’s Global Network of Learning Cities and the 4th Global Report on Adult Learning and Education: Leave no one Behind: Participation, Equity and Inclusion’ (UNESCO, 2019).
The LIDA project has aimed to develops participatory methodologies and validated indicators of quality to understand cultures of learning inclusion and active citizenship in a digitally joined up eco-system. This involved multiplier events/focus groups on learning inclusion and active citizenship in each partner country. As many as 60 people took part from across the three levels and they considered: “What do you think is important to support learning inclusion and citizenship policies?”.
After the project team members had undertaken training on digital storytelling, digital storytelling workshops with 95 people in situations of vulnerability and professionals/ educators were held resulting in 83 digital stories.
The digital stories created during the above-mentioned workshops were translated into English, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese and used as educational resources in Projects’ webinars, seminars, training sessions and higher education courses.
The Project also developed the website lidastories.net, for immigrants and refugees who are learning the language of one of the LIDA countries (English/ Italian/ Norwegian/ Portuguese), which provides 30 stories in the language of each host country as well as 36 (and still counting) major immigrant and refugee languages in Europe.