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The Origin of Spaces - innovative practices for su..
The Origin of Spaces - innovative practices for sustainable multidisciplinary clusters
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
As the current socio-economic and ecological challenges might be more than a temporary situation, innovative, positive action must be taken now to address this and create new solutions. We believe that sustainable multidisciplinary clusters and their orientation towards ecological transition, are one important approach for a responsible answer to the present needs of our society. In our experience, they are innovation labs, incubators of new ways of working, living and acting for the co-creation of sustainable communities. Therefore, the main aim of this project is to work in partnership for development and implementation of innovative practices in the field of creation and management of sustainable multidisciplinary clusters.
Partners are 4 organisations that manage innovative clusters – Association Les Darwiniens for Darwin Eco-system (Bordeaux, France), hACERIA Ateak for ZAWP (Bilbao, Spain), LX Factory for LX Factory (Lisbon, Portugal), Rojc Alliance for Social Centre Rojc (Pula, Croatia) The London Borough of Lewisham and Capture Art and Creative projects Ltd. 2 partners that represent cooperation between local stakeholders and enterprises willing to develop similar cluster in London, based on knowledge and experience gained during partnership
At the present time all of the clusters operate in isolation from each other, so this projects core objective is to bring all of their knowledge, skills and experience together in an innovative way, fostering a concrete network between them and enabling all of this information to be freely shared with others.
During the project period different co-creation methods and approaches will be made to present innovative models in the following 4 project scopes: 1.ecological know-how, 2.participatory governance, 3.co-working, 4.social entrepreneurship skills. Concrete results of the project are the intellectual outputs: Applied research and Online Educational Toolbox - 'hands on' tool based on tried and tested methods and experience that can be used by the public who want to create similar clusters or improve work of present one. For the creation of both intellectual outputs, we will use a collaborative framework for the gathering of information and as a continuous process we will include peer to peer learning. For the creation of our applied research we will combine both academics and creative professionals to work together in an international team, this will create the base for a different more innovative dynamic within the research team. During the creation of the toolbox we will use learner generated approach to its content with internal testing (alpha testing) by a small team of individuals from the partnership to measure and test the content (build, measure, learn or build measure, change) and external testing (beta testing) with new learners from outside of the clusters. The toolbox will utilise as many new digital methods and open source resources as possible. Both our intellectual outputs can be built upon and added to after the projects conclusion (our innovative intellectual outputs will be open source).
There are 3 main target groups for our project: a) internal users, members from the partner organisations, b) external users, persons or organisations that need know how, with the primary aim of creating a cluster or participating in an existing one, c) local stakeholders who are the most capable of driving this kind of initiative into existence and need research and a broader inside view for the actions they want to support or develop.
Our participants are staff members of partner organisations that will provide and participate in peer to peer learning with co-creation of intellectual outputs – participating in mobility and local activities leaded by Research and Toolbox teams.
Different project activities will be used to reach final project results: six transnational meetings attended by 105 participants, 3 types of joint staff events that will be attended in total by 45 participants: 5 study visits that will support creation of Research, 5 bilateral & 1 multilateral training course and 5 assistantship periods with discussion workshops that will support creation of Toolbox. Intellectual outputs will be created by 2 international teams: Research team with 11 members and Toolbox team with 21 members . For dissemination of project results we will organize 6 multiplier events: 5 local dissemination events - one in each country and one Final Conference, on which we expect minimum 290 attendants in total.
We expect that our project will bring together local actors within a common framework that will result in social cohesion, improving social entrepreneurship and gaining support from stakeholders, with an impact on local policy towards ecological transition.
The longer term benefits our project aims at creating are trainings based on concrete methods of working, recognised through a certification process, approved by responsible national authorities.