THE PROJECT
Living Rivers is a project co-funded by the European Commission, through the Erasmus+ Programme (KA220 – Cooperation partnership in Adult education), aiming to reinforce people’s sense of appropriation of water and highlighting the importance of this precious resource as a common good and human right. Furthermore, the project addresses citizens’ participation to the protection of rivers, taking into account the modifications of environment due to climate change.
It lasts 36 months, from 01/02/2022 to 01/02/2025.
The project involves four partners from three different countries: Rosto Solidário (Portugal), Rede Inducar CRL (Portugal), Fundación ASPAYM Castilla y León (Spain) and CEIPES (Italy).
Objectives
- Developing adults’ – especially those with fewer opportunities – knowledge and competencies on sustainability
- Designing and implementing activities to make adult learning while experiecing rivers, thanks to an innovative methodology based on gamification
- Reducing the digital gap among people with fewer opportunities, following the European Framework of key-competencies and the notion of lifelong learning
- Supporting citizens’ empowerment through their participation to the environment protection
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Activities
- Designing project activities taking into account the need for accessibility, in order to include all citizens (people with disability, migrants, people with fewer opportunities) and empower them
- Providing adult educators new instruments on non-formal education through the implementation of an e-learning platform, a mobile app and a toolkit
- Arrange a “training for trainers” in order to enhance project sustainability and dissemination
- Involving local stakeholders to the project activities, in order to improve their participation to the protection of water resources
Results
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App to enjoy, learn and protect the river
A tool supporting people to enjoy and experience rivers, as well as nature, in a playful and pedagogical way. The app will guide the users – both individual and groups – during their river exploration through a gamified and non-formal method.
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“Enviroment and participation” – Educational Toolkit
The educational toolkit will foster citizens to appreciate and discover natural environments and rivers, involving them into an educational experience whose enjoyability is enhanced through non-formal methodologies. The toolkit will contain: a conceptual framework on four different thematic dimensions on sustainability, a collaborative board game, a set of four escape rooms and four workshops.
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“Rivers for all” – Participatory Web Platform
A digital participatory tool supporting the creation and improvement of a community of people sharing the same values and interested to protect rivers and environments.
NEWS
Empowering Communities: The Project Training of Trainers in Cubillos del Sil
From September 17th to 21th, 2024, the village of Cubillos del Sil in the Castile and León region of Spain hosted a significant event for the Living Rivers project: the "Training of Trainers”, bringing together partner organizations and participants committed…
A Successful Testing Phase at Serra Guarneri, Italy
On 14 June, our Italian partner, CEIPES, held a Living Rivers project testing phase in a beautiful location for environmental education activities: Serra Guarneri, on a mountain overlooking Cefalù. In this setting the project met a group of educators from…
In Palermo to set the stage for the Testing Phase
The Living Rivers TPM, held in Palermo on 12-13 January, was an important moment for the collaborative initiative. The meeting provided a comprehensive overview of the project’s progress and laid the groundwork for the upcoming testing activities. One of the key highlights of the…
Charting Progress in the Project Online meeting
On the 17th of November, the partners of the Living Rivers project met for an online meeting, a significant moment in the initiative’s journey! This virtual gathering was an important moment for partners to take stock of the current situation,…
The third transnational partner meeting is hosted in Palermo!
On April the 12th and the 13th, the consortium of the LIVING RIVERS project (2021-1-PT01-KA220-ADU-000033405), co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme – Cooperation partnerships in adult education, met to keep on the project’s activities. The partners discussed the current activities as well…
Steps forward on the project’s implementation in Spain
On the 10th and the 11th of November, all the partners of the LIVING RIVERS project (2021-1-PT01-KA220-ADU-000033405), co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme - Cooperation partnerships in adult education, met for a transnational meeting in Valladolid (Spain) where the marvellous river…
The first learning and teaching activity for the team has been done!
From the 30th of August to the 2nd of September 202, the consortium of the LIVING RIVERS project (2021-1-PT01-KA220-ADU-000033405), co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, has met for the first training activity to brainstorm on all the variables of the project, to include…
The project starts!
On the 7th and 8th of April 2022 the consortium of the LIVING RIVERS project, (2021-1-PT01-KA220-ADU-000033405), co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, has met for the first time to start discussing the earliest step of implementation activities. The project consortium gathers organisations based…