During 2 days, on October 27-28, we’ve been part of the Innovation Camp 2018 organised by ARIES Transilvania at the Liberty Technology Park Cluj, and brought our contribution to the topic of Education for the Future.
The working group was comprised of 15 experts with various perspectives on Education: representatives of local schools, universities, NGOs, companies and of the public administration, a former Minister of Education and international guests from the European Network of Living Labs and FrankilinCovey | Education. Our colleague Ștefan Teișanu, executive director of the Centre, was the facilitator of the group.
The end product of the two days is a prototype for a Young Teachers Programme to be further detailed by the end of this year and implemented as a pilot programme in Cluj in 2019.
The programme’s mission is to adapt educational capabilities to the future needs of our children, by creating a community-driven, collaborative, and transparent context for voluntary and self-innovating education mechanisms.
Designed for young teachers, the programme offers them scholarships, training to develop coaching and community organising skills and access to an Open Education Ecosystem where they can connect with the local governance, companies, schools, universities, parents and believers and co-create educational programmes together. The project will be funded by the community and is build on a platform that uses tokenisation mechanisms to ensure transparency of budgets and recognitions.
The Young Teachers Programme is meant to be inclusive, to build human skills for the children and to provide a safe environment for teachers experimentation. With a STEAM based curriculum (Science, Technology, Education, Arts and Maths), the programme will be driven by the community, with the patronage and support of the local administration.
