The Preparatory Phase is where shared vision and relational trust begin. These virtual sessions establish a common language and framework for the project and ensure that participants across Europe are aligned around the principles of Awareness-Based Design (ABD) and transformative pedagogy. Through guided dialogues, collaborative mapping and embodied exercises, educators explore their role as co-creators of inclusive learning ecosystems.
Structure & Methodology
Relational onboarding: Using interactive tools such as Social Presencing Theatre (SPT), participants reflect on their motivations and challenges, uncovering unconscious biases and systemic barriers in their contexts.
Co-Design Basics: Introduction to ABD methodologies, enabling educators to 'prototype' ideas for the blended mobility phase.
Community Building: Small-group exchanges foster connections across borders, ensuring that a diversity of perspectives informs the direction of the project.
Expected outcomes
A shared understanding of transformative learning as an individual and collective journey.
Preliminary prototypes that address site-specific challenges (e.g. gaps in inclusive curricula).
A committed network of educators ready to engage deeply in blended mobility.
The blended mobilities phase merges hands-on training, job shadowing, and collaborative courses to translate theory into practice. Hosted in partner AMLE organisation, these activities immerse educators in real-world applications of ABD and relational pedagogies.
1. Job shadowing: Participants immerse themselves in host organisations to observe and analyse
Case studies & best practices: Community outreach initiatives, flexible programme design (e.g. adapting vocational training for displaced communities).
Network building: Strategies for building partnerships with NGOs, policy makers and marginalised groups.
Scalability and adaptability: Technology integration (e.g. AI tools for personalised learning) and adaptive design for changing demographics.
Resilience strategies: Crisis management frameworks (e.g. sustaining programmes during economic downturns).
2. Training assignments
With a focus on intersectionality, this module covers
How ethnicity, gender, disability and socio-economic status affect access to education.
Co-creating curricula that address power dynamics and focus on social justice.
Techniques to reduce prejudice and promote empathy
3. Transformative Learning Modules
Module 1: Foundations of Transformative Learning
Focus: Principles of critical reflection, holistic growth and learner agency.
Module 2: Designing Transformative Experiences
Focus: Integrating ABD (Awareness-Based Design) to make emotional and systemic barriers visible.
Module 3: Facilitating Transformative Learning
Focus: Mindfulness techniques for conflict mediation and safe space facilitation.
Module 4: Sharing & Networking
Focus: Peer-led workshops to share challenges and co-design scalable solutions.
Dissemination and follow-up activities are essential to ensure the long-term impact of the project and to prevent it from becoming an isolated initiative. The 'Empowering Educators: Improving Lifelong Learning in Europe through Transformative Pedagogies' extends its influence beyond the project itself, reaching schools, organisations, communities and research contexts. By promoting the 'language of togetherness' as a transformative pedagogy, the project inspires new ways of learning, working together and fostering social cohesion. Participants will design prototypes and interventions formats tailored to their specific audiences, ensuring adaptability and relevance in different educational and social settings.
Dissemination strategy
The dissemination plan focuses on two key audiences:
- Stakeholders & Practitioners - These include educators, institutions and professionals who can integrate the project's methodology into their own practice or develop future initiatives based on its principles.
- Wider communities - The project's impact extends to students, teachers, communities and organisations connected to the participants, ensuring that the impact of its findings is felt beyond the direct beneficiaries.
This inclusive and participatory approach ensures that the project's innovations are not confined to a single network, but contribute to wider systemic change in education and beyond throgh site specific labs created as a result of the participants activities.
Sustainability & future development
Beyond immediate dissemination, the project opens avenues for scalability and sustainability by encouraging partner institutions and indirectly involved organisations to explore new funding opportunities and replicate the model in future initiatives.
By translating the concept of 'togetherness' into actionable strategies, the project serves as a catalyst for bridging divides, promoting inclusive pedagogical practices and amplifying their impact across Europe.
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