MOOC
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.
ToBeOf
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.
Digital books and new hypermedia systems
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
E.C.E.c.J.
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?
