OLA – Democratic Landscape Transformation: towards an Open Landscape Academy

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OLA

Democratic Landscape Transformation: towards an Open Landscape Academ

Funding Programme

ERASMUS + , AZIONE: KA220-HED – COOPERATION PARTNERSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Duration

DECEMBER 2022 – NOVEMBER 2025

Theme

SOCIAL INNOVATION

Project Description

OLA is an Erasmus+ project working in the field of democratic landscape transformation, aiming to contribute to the European priorities of participation, local environmental action and the fight against climate change.

The programme involves setting up Living Labs as an interface between universities and local communities within a transdisciplinary context, alongside the launch of the Open Landscape Academy: an openly accessible online learning network connecting community activism and academic knowledge with public engagement practices.

Within the project, CIFLA runs a Romagna Living Lab, an open innovation ecosystem designed to transfer the project’s content and tools to the Romagna community through open knowledge and community-based design approaches. The overall aim is to share a genuine democratic culture of participatory design.

Objectives

OLA has three main objectives:

  • Contributing to the priority of “Common values, civic engagement and participation” through the training of qualified personnel in democratic landscape transformation. These individuals will act as multipliers, extending these skills to others
  • Contributing to participation, local environmental action and the fight against climate change by addressing these themes and their systemic context within local Living Labs
  • Promoting interconnected higher education systems by developing OLA – The Open Landscape Academy

Project Implementation

  • Creating Living Labs that act as an interface between universities and their local communities. Delivering learning activities within this transdisciplinary context, partly through blended Erasmus intensive programmes
  • Developing multilingual teaching materials and facilitation guides for democratic landscape transformation, and delivering training activities aimed at multipliers
  • Developing the Open Landscape Academy as an open learning platform, including two transnational pilot courses

 

Expected Results

  • An Open Landscape Academy established as a transnational platform for advancing knowledge in democratic landscape transformation
  • A community of practice with advanced knowledge of methods and approaches to democratic landscape transformation
  • A series of multilingual teaching and training materials
  • Local landscape democracy laboratories at all participating university sites

 

Modalità di implementazione del progetto

Sono stati selezionati 20 utenti, in base ai criteri elencati nel bando, ad essi è stato proposto un percorso così declinato:

Orientamento specialistico individuale e di piccolo gruppo ( 7 ore)
formazione sulle competenze trasversali volte a favorire l’inserimento e la permanenza nel mercato del lavoro (32 ore)
formazione obbligatoria sulla “Sicurezza nei luoghi di lavoro – alto rischio” (16 ore)
tirocinio formativo e di orientamento ( da 3 a 6 mesi).
Al termine del progetto i partecipanti hanno ricevuto un attestato che certificava le competenze acquisite.

 

Destinatari

Laureandi e neolaureati (laureati da meno di 12 mesi) dell’Ateneo di Bologna – Campus di Ravenna, domiciliati o residenti in Emilia-Romagna, non occupati.

 

Role of CIFLA and Partners

  • Participation in regional, national, and European calls for proposals
  • Project communication
  • Dissemination of technical and scientific culture
  • Training design
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Community on line

 

THE COOPERATION NETWORK:

The partnership comprises CIFLA (Fondazione Flaminia), the University of Bologna, Stichting Le:Notre Institute, the University of Nürtingen-Geislingen (HfWU), the University of Maryland at College Park, the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Agricultural University of Athens, the Greek association Sineterismos Ergazomenon COMMONSPACE, and the Hungarian association kultúrAktív Egyesület

 

Resources

https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/

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