"Wake Up! Cities" is a two and a half years European project which is aimed at strengthening cooperation between the urban experts and youth workers through exploring potential synergies of their competencies and working methods
Project's objectives
Empower Community Voices
Enable residents to share their personal narratives, fostering a sense of belonging and community pride
Preserve Local History
Document and preserve the diverse histories and experiences of city inhabitants for future generations
Promote Cultural Understanding
Enhance cross-cultural understanding and appreciation by highlighting the rich tapestry of stories within the city
Influence Urban Development
Inform urban planning and policy decisions with grassroots insights, ensuring that development reflects the needs and aspirations of the community
Rules
Age
Must be 18 years old or above
Citizenship
Nationals of all countries are welcome
Language
Must be proven English, other languages are welcome
Application deadline
By 13. June 23:59
Timeline
Mai 2021
Kick-Off in Tscheljabinsk mit Koordinator*innen und Projektexpert*innen aus Jekaterinburg, Tscheljabinsk, St. Petersburg und Berlin.
Description
Juni 2021
Ausschreibungsverfahren und Auswahl von 50 Multiplikator*innen - Vertreter*innen der städtischen Initiativen.
Description
27.-28. November 2021
Medienwerkstatt „Act Out Loud" in Jekaterinburg mit praktischen
Medienworkshops und öffentlicher Vorstellung der entwickelten Projektideen der Multiplikator*innen
Our team
Lead manager
Dr. Elena Stein
This is a generic paragraph. Urban participation methods have become influential for practitioners in numerous fields, including the arts, community development, and education. In these settings, place-based initiatives often seek to improve the well-being of local communities through creative, collaborative responses to local issues.
Assistant
Vlad Mikhel
This is a generic paragraph. Urban participation methods have become influential for practitioners in numerous fields, including the arts, community development, and education. In these settings, place-based initiatives often seek to improve the well-being of local communities through creative, collaborative responses to local issues.
This is a generic paragraph. Urban participation methods have become influential for practitioners in numerous fields, including the arts, community development, and education. In these settings, place-based initiatives often seek to improve the well-being of local communities through creative, collaborative responses to local issues. Such engagement with place can support adult education services and is especially transformative for socially marginalised groups. Yet, few adult education services have implemented these pedagogies in practice and little is known about the perspectives and experiences of forced migrants within adult education services utilizing these approaches. How can we help newcomers feel the cities "their own" and become visible in them? How can they find their place? How can cities benefit from interaction with newcomers? Cities often become havens of human stories and potential. Despite the existence of integration programs and centers, and non-profit organizations that help newcomers integrate, migrants' voices often go unnoticed, resulting in misunderstanding, fear, and rejection in the host community. The city rejects newcomers who do not know how to fit into existing infrastructures, how to find themselves, and tell others about themselves. Our project aims to help establish communication with forced migrants, refugees, and other categories of people coming to European cities in difficult life situations. Given the scope enabled by a small-scale partnership, we see this project as an exploration, in collaboration with the target group and institutions, for those who deal with the integration of young people among migrants, who study and develop new methods of outreach in the form of urban participation methods. Through connecting grassroots migrant organizations, urban science researchers/practitioners (CISR e.V., Berlin), European project management & migrant-led NGO (CGE, Erfurt) and urban participation & education providers (Urban Foxes, Brussels), the consortium aims to bring a new and innovative set of actors to KA2 and Erasmus + Program and support each field of urban science and adult education out work to learn mutually from one another, while supporting the outgrowth of innovations in Adult Education, more inclusive cities, and responsive urban environments which reflect needs and rights. Partners learning during mobilities will be documented within an Urban Casebook, enabling other institutions to have access to a series of innovative cases of outreach and participation in the context of adult education with target groups.
