On November 24 and 25 we met in Barcelona for the sixth transnational meeting of the SAVE Project (the fifth in attendance). In the afternoon of the 24th, the Multiplier Event organized by partner CRIA took place. The meeting was held at the Orpheus Cultural Center, Choral and Music School located in the Gracia neighbourhood. The meeting was attended by 30 people including teachers and project workers engaged in cultural and social promotion activities. During the meeting, all partners explained the experimentation done on the modules and illustrated the results that emerged, contributing to an active and participatory discussion focused on the innovative methods brought by the project. The audience interacted with interest, actively participating in the discussion. After the event, the partners visited the Orpheus Center and learned about the activities it promotes.

In the morning of November 25, the partners met to discuss and debate the content and text produced that will form the Final Manual. The chapters of the Final Handbook were written in October, and the meeting in Barcelona was an opportunity to discuss the texts and content. The Handbook will be an innovative tool and a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate in the various nations on the topic of Global Citizenship. The partners also discussed the different channels for disseminating the results obtained from the fruitful research done in the previous months and worked towards the imminent closure of the project. The Handbook will be published on the SAVE website.

Final straight for the Erasmus + SAVE project. During the meeting between the coordinators in Rome 🇨🇮😎🤩 the partners were able to exchange around the SAVE "handbook" with methods and activities on global citizenship training in adult education. A theme more important than ever 🤓👍 - protecting the environment, accepting diversity and fighting for social inclusion, having a critical mind in relation to information on the internet, knowing our history to better build the future ... One of the SAVE results is a toolbox with 5 modules for about 45 hours of training in global citizenship - The toolbox can be found here. The final handbook comes soon ... to be followed!

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The partners of the Erasmus+ SAVE project met in Dingden, Germany for a third transnational meeting. Michael from Akademie Klausenhof welcomed them in their training center (discover Akademie Klausenhof here)

SAVE aims at increasing civic and citizenship skills for adult learners in integration during language courses (FLE), digital courses and basic skills. The results of the SAVE project are a methodological vademcum for teachers and trainers to become familiar with non-formal methods and the themes of global citizenship education.

Then the partners developed a toolbox with concrete activities for teachers/trainers to work on global citizenship during their classes. It also contains questionnaires to analyse the competences developed on global citizenship and civic and citizenship skills.

The toolkit contains 5 andragogical modules with several activities on the following topics:

My role in a sustainable society (DE)

Cultural diversity and intercultural communication (F)

Civic participation, historical memory, politics (IT)

Digital training (E )

Equal opportunities (SLO)

In total, you will find 24 activities for about 45 hours of global citizenship training. All of it is accessible here.

In a very productive meeting in Dingden, the team took stock of the experimentation phase and planned the next steps for the project. The SAVE manual will soon be published and will combine the methodological vademecum and the toolbox and will be enhanced by feedback from the experimentation phase. Feel free to test the toolbox in your courses and give us feedback!

Focus on AK: The Akademie Klausenhof exists since 60 years. It is an international training center for young people and adults. The teams offer vocational and further training as well as adult education.

The main focus of AK is on vocational training and job placement for the unemployed and young people with disabilities. The training center also offers a second chance school, language and integration courses for migrants/refugees, a youth support service. They work on pedagogical contents in citizenship education, digital skills and basic skills according to the European reference frame.

AK can provide about 550 boarding places and has 325 employees. The Academy has two main locations with full board, classrooms and recreation centers in Dingden and Rhede. There are approximately 750-800 participants per day, over 800 courses/seminars and about 150 different courses per year with a total of over 7,000 guests from all over the world each year.

Ak's mission is more than just knowledge transfer. The concept is based on the conviction that learning also offers opportunities for the development of an autonomous personality and the driving force of its own destiny.

Fifteen adult learners already had the chance to test some activities on intercultural communication and active citizenship of the toolkit on global citizenship of SAVE. They actively participated in the interactive activities with a non formal approach and used the time to exchange on topics like identity, stereotypes, citizenship here and there, my role in my society, etc. The experimentations will be continued until the end of June in order to validate the toolkit ! All results (the toolkit with 5 modules and over 25 activities) are available in the result section above.

Presentation of the first results of the project

Methodology and Toolkit on how to integrate education on global citizenship in adult education !

8th April 2022 - 3 PM - 4PM CET - ONLINE

ZOOM LINK ->https://arnes-si.zoom.us/j/97837755340

On Thursday, March 3, 2022, the Cap Ulysse team presented the second outcome of the Erasmus+ SAVE project to local partners - a toolkit with pedagogical modules around global citizenship for adult learners. The European partners have collaboratively developed this toolkit with modules that can be integrated into language courses, training on digital literacy and workshops on transversal skills. In the toolkit, adult trainers can find 24 activities for a total of 45 hours of intervention on the following 5 topics: Digital Module - Fake News, Internet Consumption and Radicalization; Cultural Diversity Module - Intercultural Communication; Environment Module - Ecogestures and my role in a sustainable environment, Citizenship Module - Citizen Participation and Historical Memory; Equality Module - Equal Opportunities and Gender Equality.

The participants of the presentation, all adult trainers with learners with migration background and/or low educational qualification, have discovered the toolkit, tested some activities and will now be able to experiment the toolkit with their learners. Once the toolkit on global citizenship in adult education is validated - you can download all the results for free on the project website - here. The SAVE project is funded by the Erasmus+ program.

Last Friday on 17. 12. 2021, the Slovenian partner LUC had a virtual workshop with trainers on the methodological Vademecum - IO1 . 17 stakeholders participated and the team from LUC got very positive feedback. Participants mentioned that the content of the Vademecum is really useful, and that they see opportunities in using the future manual SAVE when working with young adults.

The French partner had the chance to present the project SAVE on a local radio station specialised in European initiatives - EUREKA. For all the French listeners here the link to the little presentation.

On the 31st of March 2021, Cap Ulysse led an online focus group on the SAVE project's topics: the global citizenship in adult education. Several local trainers and facilitators shared their professional reflections and ideas on the possibilities to integrate this concept in the existing educational offers. They also explained some of their activities and practices so the whole partnership will benefit from their experiences.

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