Build your FCH as a learning ecosystem
Fab City Hubs as learning ecosystems where different actors, resources, interests and knowledges are exchanged
Fab City Hubs are places of confluences of different actors, resources, interests and knowledges. They are in-between spaces where academia, institutional actors and citizen can collaborates and exchange for building new forms of knowledge. They allow to promote activities and partnership with educational institutions - as for vocational schools - and to bridge the gap between the learning and the socioeconomic milieu of a city.
Why does it matter ?
A learning ecosystem encompasses people, culture, content, technologies, data, strategies, governance and spaces. All of these components should interact in complex and transversal ways to shape and maintain learning, both formal and informal within the same ecosystem.
Innovative spaces, fostering multi-stakeholders and cross-disciplinary collaborations for education projects are engine for driving the development of new economic models in ways that revitalise historic urban industrial sites and create wider-ranging opportunities for local communities and entrepreneurs.
Establishing learning ecosystems help transform the transmission of traditional crafts knowledge to achieve an enhanced societal and economic valuation of crafts and to align them with a future-oriented approach of heritage in Europe.
New skills - technical and transversal - need to be acquired to transform the way we produce in a circular and sustainable way. Formal education cannot answer alone the multiple challenges connected to this complex process and innovative multi-stakeholders approaches as well as innovative spaces to learning and teaching shall be developed.
What is the CENTRINNO SCHOOL ?
The CENTRINNO School focuses on building programmes and activities for developing 21st century skills and lifelong learning to create a better fit for vocational and post-vocational training with the needs of 21st century urban manufacturing and circular economy based on local needs where it is implemented. It fills the gap between formal and informal learning, as well as existing and upcoming skills and jobs.
The objective is to enable people to make better career choices, find quality jobs and improve their life chances by creating spaces where the boundaries between learning, working, making, and sharing are blurred.
The CENTRINNO School supports new economic models based on a circular economy that will only be able to develop and grow if workers can meet the skills demanded of this new economy. By doing this, it accompanies the shift towards a circular economy and trains the local population in new technical and transversal skills such as circular design, product repair, remanufacturing, circular demolition, and sustainable urban farming, system thinking.
The CENTRINNO School also promotes business and working models that revitalise European historic urban industrial sites and create wider-ranging opportunities to local communities and entrepreneurs; they foster social inclusion and economic growth in cities through re-appreciation of craftsmanship culture and inclusion of heritage aspects as drivers for innovation.
The CENTRINNO School includes programmes and activities that are inspired by the Open Schooling framework and developed in close relation with vocational schools, networks, maker spaces and local industry and specific target groups such residents from different socio-economic backgrounds, women in traditional crafts and vocational professionals. They include network events, one day workshops, longer training programmes for target groups, but also blueprints and documentation.
A collaborative process involving the 9 Fab City Hub Network members led to the following CENTRINNO school definition, that encompasses all aspects of the CENTRINNO school programme:
“ We are professionals trying to link education and urban challenges who want to develop and disseminate the tools needed to support the craftsmen of the future and think circularly. For that we design training programs to acquire practical skills and a “maker” mindset for vocational students, adult professionals and citizens in order to address skills, environmental and knowledge issues. CENTRINNO School programs emerge from local needs that are identified, explored and addressed in Fab City Hubs. “
Key aspects of the CENTRINNO School
Find here a selection of key aspects related to the CENTRINNO School that could be relevant for your Fab City Hub.
page1. The CENTRINNO School programspage2. The CENTRINNO School Participantspage3.The CENTRINNO School social inclusive aspectspage4.The CENTRINNO School 21st century skillspage5. The CENTRINNO School Roadmappage6. Toward CERTIFICATION for the CENTRINNO SchoolTools/Stories
Find here a curated selection of Tools and Stories from the 9 members of Fab City Hub Network that could inspire you to set up your CENTRINNO School for you local Fab City Hub
👥pageCentrinno School Implementation Roadmap👥pageSurvey for craftsmen👥pageProfessional Reintegration Programs🛠️pageFab Academy🛠️pageOpen schooling🏭pageKumu for learning ecosystems🏭pageHackathon School🏭pageMaker FaireOther Resources
Find here a list of other resources selected for you to know more about learning ecosystems.
→ Read this BLOG POST if you want to know more about building FCH as Places of Learnings
→ Find here a synthetic analysis from the Cities of making project if you want to better understand the context, problems, forces and solutions about learning and urban manufacturing
→ look at this Open schooling navigator, a tool to help you setting up an Open Schooling programme (what, where, who, with)
→ Read this report that explain why vocational and educational training is a key mechanism to secure a skilled workforce that can thrive in circular economy
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