Third Party Funds Group - Overall project
Acronym: NEMESIS
Start date : 01.10.2017
End date : 31.07.2021
Website: https://nemesis-edu.eu/
NEMESIS stands for the English acronym "New educational model for training social innovation skills in the social field". This is a European project that brings together topics such as education and social innovation. It aims to help educators develop teaching materials that enable their students to improve their skills in social responsibility and innovation. These skills are intended to encourage students to become carriers of social change.
The project started in October 2017 and is expected to run until March 2021. It combines innovative learning models, open technologies, and participation-based relationships and processes. Over the duration of the project, the project partners (a mix of researchers, social innovators, teachers and mediators) will develop an open, pedagogical framework for education in the field of social innovation and devise an immediately applicable method for schools and other educational institutions.
NEMESIS wants to connect learners and social innovators to create a community of social entrepreneurs willing to interact with students. But the project sees itself as more than a mere mentoring program: here the active participation of the social entrepreneurs is the main focus in the area of the development of educational resources. An online learning platform is being developed through which these resources are shared and the learners are networked with the entrepreneurs.
The NEMESIS model will be tested in seven schools in four European countries (Spain, Portugal, Greece and France) from January to June 2019 so that the resulting feedback can be incorporated. This is intended to improve the model. A second pilot project will run from December 2019 to June 2020, to which other schools will be invited.
NEMESIS stands for Novel Educational Model Enabling Social Innovation Skills development. The project's vision is to serve as a catalyst for innovative, engaging and interdisciplinary learning.
NEMESIS presents a new approach towards the attainment of Social Innovation (SI) skills by combining innovative learning models, open technologies and participatory relations and processes. NEMESIS designs develops and tests an educational model for equipping students of primary and secondary education with Social Innovation Skills, values and tools. This process will enable students to become creative social thinkers, develop entrepreneurial mindsets, and become social change makers into a world where inequality, poverty and social exclusion are still quite evident.
The NEMESIS model builds on a combination of innovative pedagogies and learning models, open technologies and participatory relations and processes. It also creates bridges between the learning communities and real world social innovation experiences by creating a Europe-wide community of social innovation practitioners eager to interact with students, facilitating interdisciplinary and intergenerational learning.
To foster its potential to scale and be adopted by educational institutions around Europe, the project develops a Social Innovation Open Learning Platform to grant access to the specific educational model and resources to all with emphasis on those from disadvantaged environments. This platform also facilitates the creation of a Community of Practice (CoP) of teachers, school leaders and relevant stakeholders willing to break silos, engage in dialogue, drive organizational change and experience the value of the NEMESIS educational model.
NEMESIS will be piloted in 4 European countries, Greece, Spain, UK, and Portugal engaging stakeholders into co-creation of educational resources, collective learning through the development of projects and digital storytelling as well as into online learning and knowledge sharing communities of peers. In that way, the project builds a contemporary educational model that will act as a catalyst in innovative skills-based education in Europe that is expected to improve current teaching and learning practices and drive students' passion for sustainable social change.