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PROJECT TITLE

Minorities as opportunity and occasion for chrysalis

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Project aimed to develop online and offline tools for intercultural education in multicultural professional environments. Trainings, seminar and job shadowings. The problem we see is related not only to migrants and intercultural-ethnic reality of Europe, but to the development of “fear of difference” and “refusal of difference” raising in different context in Europe. We want develop such a material with the characteristic of a Massive Open Online Course gathering together materials from different sources (video, books, training material) and to be made available for different kind of workers.

PROJECT WEBSITE

https://www.salto-youth.net/tools/otlas-partner-finding/project/mooc-minorities-as-opportunity-and-occasion-for-chrysalis.6640/

DATES

January 2017 – December 2018

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant: Public International – ERASMUS+ (KA2 – Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices Strategic Partnerships for youth

Funding Value: 210.000 €

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

MCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Massimiliano Greco (Project coordinator)

Vania Baldi (Main Researcher)

PARTNERS

 

PROJECT TITLE

To be or not to be… formal

SHORT DESCRIPTION

The project “To be or not to be… formal” develops links between the non-formal education activities run by Youth NGOs in different geographic and cultural contexts and the formal educational system. Furthermore it aims to produce an handbook to be used by youth workers in preparing international youth mobility and volunteering activities, focusing on educational aspects.

The project involves participants from 6 countries from European Union, candidate countries, Asia and Africa, mixing together non-governmental organizations, public institutions and educational institutions, thus promoting a cross-sectorial cooperation and the development of cross-sectorial tools.

DATES

January 2015 – December 2016

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant – Public International – ERASMUS+  KA2 “Capacity building in the field of youth with ACP countries”

Funding Value: 170.000. €

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

MCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Pietro Galluccio (Project coordinator )

Vania Baldi (Main Researcher)

PROJECT TITLE

Introduction of digital books and new hypermedia systems in encouraging reading, creating, sharing and literary expression

SHORT DESCRIPTION

One of the biggest challenges of contemporary times is understanding, decoding the new generations, increasingly immersed in the digital world, and especially to encourage and develop in children and adolescents reading and production skills. In this sense, the said project aims to analyze the introduction of digital books and new hypermedia systems in encouraging reading, creating, sharing and literary expression, as enhancers of learning processes, learning and knowledge creation for elementary school students.  The team consists of doctors professors from the Federal University of Maranhão – UFMA, the Department of Library Science – DEBIB and the Graduate Program in Design – PPGDG in partnership with teachers at the University of Aveiro – UA, Portugal, Department of Communication and Art – DeCA

DATES

January 2014 – December 2015

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant – FAPEMA – Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão.

Funding Value: Public International: 29181,63 €

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

MCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Cassia Furtado (Project coordinator)

Lidia Oliveira (Main Researcher)

PARTNERS

PROJECT TITLE

Emergence d’une Conscience Européenne chez les Jeunes

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Young people today are constantly immersed in the dynamics of consumption of media content, from television to the Internet, which puts them in a privileged position of access to cultural content and the establishment of cross-border relationships.  In this context the experience power media should increase awareness that young Europeans (and the young Portuguese in particular) have each other and be an opportunity to develop respect, mutual recognition and curiosity, pluralism, freedom and cooperation. Does the language of media language shared by young people across Europe that enhances their approach despite the linguistic and sociocultural diversity of each country, especially the young Portuguese?

PROJECT WEBSITE

http://cms.ua.pt/ecejjg/

DATES

January 2011 – December 2013

FUNDING SOURCE

Project Grant: Private – Centre Edgar Morin – EHESS/CNRS, Paris + Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Funding Value: 54.426€

DIGIMEDIA MAIN AREA

MCC

RESEARCH TEAM

Vania Baldi (Project coordinator of the Portuguese Team)

Lídia Oliveira (Team Member)

Alfredo Pena-Vega (Project coordinator of the France Team)

PARTNERS
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