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Project overview

Responsible Smart Citizenship against Poverty & Social Exclusion (RSC against P & SE) is an Erasmus+ Key Action 2 project that runs for 30 months, between November 2021 and May 2024. The RSC project aims to promote active, intelligent and responsible citizenship to combat poverty and social exclusion, in line with the EU commitment to the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable development goals. The project is aimed at capacity building for social inclusion, participation and cohesion, the design of a unique educational program against Poverty and Social Exclusion, and the empowerment of an active and responsible European citizenship at the policy level.

The general objective of the project is to contribute to the reduction of poverty and social exclusion in the EU through the design, testing and systematisation of an innovative and effective European Strategy for Education and Social Participation against Poverty and Social Exclusion, based on the construction of an “inclusive and collaborative learning ecosystem”, and in the networking of Local Communities of Inclusive and Collaborative Learning, aimed at: building capacities and acquiring key skills for promoting inclusion, participation and social cohesion; the design and evaluation of Inclusive and Collaborative Learning Projects against Poverty and Social Exclusion; and the empowerment and involvement of an active, intelligent and responsible European citizenship.

Objectives

The specific objectives of the project are:

A) Design, develop and keep updated a Digital Toolbox of innovative educational methodologies with the aim to promote social inclusion and favour the exercise of active citizenship.
B) Design, build and boost a Virtual Environment for Inclusive and Collaborative Learning for the proper functioning, transferability and sustainability of the “RSC Strategy against P&SE”.
C) Design, test and validate an Education and Social Participation Program aimed at: improving the technical qualification and acquisition of key skills against Poverty and Social Exclusion; Promoting the creation of Collaborative Learning Communities in local learning environments (workers and volunteers, political decision-makers and social leaders, people in a situation and/or at risk of exclusion, citizenship).
D) Develop a policy advocacy toolkit (White Paper) which describes our projects’ procedures and encourages its use by other organisations at a local, national and European level.

Results

R1

Digital Toolbox of pedagogical material, national state-of-play and resources on Poverty & Social Exclusion

R2

Virtual Environment for Inclusive and Collaborative Learning against Poverty and Social Exclusion

R3

Education and Social Participation Program for the creation of Inclusive and Participatory Learning Communities against Poverty and Social Exclusion

R4

Toolkit for Advocacy (White Paper), Transfer and Sustainability

Target groups

  • Adult educators/counsellors in the field of social exclusion and poverty
  • Organisations and institutions promoting social inclusion
  • Partner organisations and their respective network
  • Volunteers and other stakeholders
  • Decision and policymakers
  • People at risk of poverty and social exclusion
  • Wider public at the local, regional, national, and european level