The participants of the PAC workshop in JJI Lelystad have realized a cooking book together. This project is progressing really well, beyond expectations. Young offenders are not a very reliable group to work with, but all of the were present at almost every session, even though some session were early in the morning. (getting up early is not their strongest quality). Everybody was very proud on the final result of the workshop, a cooking book.
Kick-off PAC project
On February 8 we had the kick-off meeting in Antwerp of a new project. The PAC project, PAC stands for Prisoners and Active Citizenship. At the first sight an unlikely combination, but we’re looking forward to working on this project.
Two organizations from Belgium will play a leading role in this project “de Rode Antraciet” and “de Vrije Universiteit Brussel” The other partners come from Croatia, the UK and Italy. The next two years the,re will be a lot of pilots that will result in a toolkit, which will be the most important intellectual output of the project.
We spend three exiting and inspiring days filming for a game in Virtual Reality that we are developing with “wemakevr” a company based in Amsterdam http://wemakevr.com Almost 25 professionals are working on this exiting project that will be finished later this year. The ambition is to develop the game “Talk to me” that will help people at the edge of society to develop their soft skills
The year started with some teaching in Italian prisons The final version of the blended learning environment that we have developed for the Real Life project was tested during a very successful pilot in Padua. At the end of the week we visited the female prison in Venice. Boats of the prison police took us to parts of Venice where tourist seldom come.
C&C is very proud to be a member of the European Citizenslab.
Citizenslab is a participatory network of local actors of change from different sectors and context trying to generate systematic change from the root level and not just to tweak symptoms of what is not working. The underlying question is:
‘How can our diverse practices create a more meaningful quality of life in Europe’.
We use a so called Lab Approach to illuminate each other and let a new community intelligence emerge. The key elements of a Lab Approach are:
From 23 to 27 September, 140 members of the Tandem family, all participants of the three most recent Tandem programs, alumni like us and the Tandem team came together in Odessa.
With Tanztangente, our partner from Berlin, we shared our insights and experiences with the others during a very well received workshop.
SWAG (Share ideas, Work together, Act now, Get involved)
Within CitizensLab we work on a prototype to develop new models for education. We want to help children and young people to realise their full potential and to become active citizens. We address education by involving schools in the practices and integrating them in community life. We promote freedom in education and want to strengthen the rights of pupils to take responsibility for their learning processes as well as to advocate democratic participation to become part of decision-making processes in schools. With partners from Budapest, Sofia, Frankfurt, Barcelona and Athens we started preparing a project called SWAG, trying to combine learning and active citizenship.
The Valmopris project on validating informal learning in prisons is almost finished, so it is time to present the intellectual outputs. Have a look at the Guidebook, the Study and Policy Recommendations, the Training Outline and the Competence Framework.
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Our project Real Life on serious gaming in prisons is entering its third year, after successful pilots in Turkey and Lithuania. Some of the games that the partners in this project are developing are beginning to take shape. Time to show some screenshots.
Ed Santman and Monique Baan worked intensively in the first months of 2017, making a documentary with a group of inmates and prison staff at PI Sittard, a prison in the South of the Netherlands. The result is a very special portrait of the life behind the prison walls, it was filmed by the prisoners and the prison workers who collaborated as a team to produce this documentary. Later this year we will work with the same group on a magazine which will involve augmented reality as a tool to add some of the scenes of the documentary.
See the trailer at:
or see the whole video at:
