Tomorrow´s Land
Start date: Nov 1, 2016,
End date: Dec 31, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
Social innovation has been defined as "New ideas that resolve existing challenges for the benefit of people and planet (Center for Social Innovation) or as "New ideas that work to meet pressing unmet needs and improve people´s lives (The Young Foundation).Never as much as today, is there a the need for social innovators so demanding. The challenges posed to our societies, the profound inequalities within the societies, the climate changes, the unemployment rates among many other factors demand for a new socio-economic model and innovative solutions.“To thrive in today’s innovation-driven economy, workers need a different mix of skills than in the past” (New Vision for Education, WEF). The 21st century skills at the core of the lifelong learning strategy of the EU will be critical to ensure a new generation of citizens equipped with competencies such as collaboration, creativity and problem-solving and personal skills such as initiative, curiosity and resilience.“Innovation only flourishes when businesses, governments and citizens are prepared to take risks, to think big and to invest in the future. We now need leaders with the courage to take the long view – but we also need better ways to involve Europe’s people in the task of shaping the future” (Plan I(nnovation) for Europe, Nesta).When one looks to the challenges posed by the emerging collaborative economy and the social innovation paradigm, two major issues arise: how to enhance society´s capacity for action and how to deploy new models of learning and doing business. The ambition to boost a new economic model – the collaborative economy – and nurture social innovation as pathways to economic growth and societal development requires a new learning approach. Tomorrow´s Land will therefore set the foundations and prepare citizens to tackle future challenges by delivering a social innovation competences framework and a MOOC to empower Europe´s social innovators through the development of key knowledge and competences required for the future social innovators to succeed..The project is developed by a consortium of 6 organizations from 6 different European countries and combines different organizational profiles - Universities, Businesses and NGO´s willing to co-develop social innovation of Europe.Tomorrow´s Land will include 4 key outputs: a Tomorrow´s Land strategic foresight highlighting the key future drivers of social innovation in Europe; the Tomorrow´s Land Learning Academy, an online learning platform and a MOOC to support the development of the future social innovators; the Tomorrow´s Land Champions of Change, a facilitators training designed to empower educators as change makers and eqquipe them with the knowledge and tools to support the growth of the social innovators; and the Tomorrow´s Land Bootcamp, an international training activity to deliver the project learning resources and prepare a first generation of future social innovators.As a result of the project’s activities mentioned above, the project should have an impact at several levels.• Educators/Teachers/trainers will have access to innovative learning resources and support materials for approaching Social Innovation and Collaborative Economy that can be used in various settings• Adults will have access to an online learning offer that enables learning high value topics as well as essential transversal competences (e.g. critical thinking, creativity, entrepreneurship, language skills, etc.)• Organisations active in Social Innovation and Adult Education will have a new tool and knowledge to improve key competences and employability of adults• In general terms, Social Innovation will find an easier pathway to enter adult learning curricula’s• In the future, as adults become more aware and equipped with key knowledge and competences to act as active European social innovators, the European economy and society will be positively impacted