Project title: Social and Cultural Innovation Labs
Supported by: Erasmus+
Total project budget: 193.445,00 EUR
Project implementation period: 01.03.2021.-28.02.2023.
Lead Beneficiary: FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG, Germany
Project partners:
STIMMULI FOR SOCIAL CHANGE, Greece
Open University Subotica Ltd., Serbia
ASOCIACION CULTURAL COMENZEMOS EMPEZEMOS, Spain
Social Cooperative Enterprise Cinesthesia, Greece

Project summary:
The mission of the project is to bring Schools and Culture and Creative Sector (CCS) into a Partnership for Creativity that will be based upon the educational philosophy of Social Innovation Education (SIE). To accomplish this mission, the project is setting the following objectives:
- Reinforce the development of creativity at school by creating a framework and a curriculum for establishing cross-sectoral partnerships among schools and CCS, whereby creative professionals will interact with teachers and students, apply co-creation methods and support the development of creativity and social innovation skills such as critical thinking, problem solving and advocacy.
- Train teachers of secondary education on applying arts-based educational tools, such as digital art and augmented reality, on a new collaborative, learner-centered, challenge based and purpose driven approach capable of triggering creativity and active citizenship.
- Equip students with the necessary arts-based tools and competences to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and develop creative and innovative solutions around societal challenges that were exacerbated in covid times.