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KA2 Youth EXCH. “Ucelab”

Urban Civic Education LAB (UCE LAB)

Urban Civic Education LAB” is a 24-month strategic partnership involving 3 NGOs from Austria, Germany and Italy. The aim of the project is to enhance the critical thinking of young people living in cities and foster the development of their social, civic and intercultural competences so that these skills can be capitalized in the field of Social Entrepreneurship.

Start: 01-06-2020 – End: 31-05-2022 
Project Reference: 2020-1-AT02-KA205-002653
EU Grant: 54.328,00 EUR
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action Type: Strategic partnership for youth


Applicant Organization                 
WONDERLAND – PLATFORM FOR EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE (Austria)

Project Partners:
1)COMPARATIVE RESEARCH NETWORK EV (DE)
2)MINE VAGANTI NGO (IT)

Project TOPICs:         
Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education.

PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES
Enhance the critical thinking of young people living in cities and foster the development of their social, civic and intercultural competences so that these skills can be capitalized in the field of Social Entrepreneurship.

TARGET GROUPs
The Urban Civic Education LAB project will design comprehensive educational approaches aiming to develop social entrepreneurship capacities in youngsters living in the urban areas while enhancing the social clout of youngsters as providers of added social value to their communities.

APPROACH / METHODOLOGY
The methodology that will be used will be a combination of non-formal education, civic education, and social and entrepreneurship education. These will be utilized instruments to enhance components of a comprehensive and progressive approach to entrepreneurial empowerment, projected on the social issues and civic ethics of urban areas.

Project ACTIVITIES
Specifying, the partnership will provide a comprehensive pattern of social entrepreneurial empowerment for youngsters living in cities, focusing on the mains challenges affect the urban area’s context, though the following activities:

– Collection and exchange of good practices
– Specific Blended Motilities
– Dissemination events

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