Tag: Fondazione Flaminia

Italian kick-off event of Eulections´19, Lugo, Italy, June, 3, 2019

This event took place on the June, 3, 2019 in one of the high schools of Lugo and we counted on 72 participants (71 participants from the city of Lugo, Italy, 1 participant from the city of Lisbon, Portugal), mainly students, teachers, and staff of the school interested in the method and to the project. The participants were from two different high school courses: humanistic and technical, and students of the last two years of high school.

This was the first event of the Emilia-Romagna tour and all of us were excited: Flaminia staff, students, teachers, and trainers. The introduction of the workshop was dedicated to the White Paper of the Future of Europe 2025, the methods, and the goals of the project.

Each student had his own bag with his own Lego pieces. Throughout the event, with the help and instructions of the expert trainers, they went through all the points that we wanted. Gradually, the students showed their commitment to the activities, showing to be more and more willing to build “complex” models whit the LEGO, giving a 3D representation to their ideas and points of view.

After the introduction activities, a sort of ice breaking activities aimed at facilitating the student to get into the objective of the workshop, the 5th scenarios were introduced and they started to work on them divided into groups. Each group worked on one single scenario, using the same approach adopted during the introduction activities: own personal thought, 3D representation, and sharing with the rest of the team.

At the end of the project the participants photographed their 3D models, they wrote a brief summary of the experience, complete a questionnaire to collect key messages and suggestions and to assess the impact of the activity.

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“Il Futuro Dell´Europa È Nelle Nostre Mani” – Ravenna, Italy, June, 21, 2019

On 21st June, Fondazione Flaminia organized the second E(u)Lections´19 event held at the Open lab of Ravenna within the Classis Museo.

The event was open to every citizen of Ravenna city and we were able to involve 51 Italian participants, with ages ranging between 20 and 67 years old, in a multi-generational debate about the European Union’s present and future. Thanks to a diverse audience of participants in the Emilia-Romagna events tour, we will have the opportunity to collect diverse suggestions for the future of Europe 2025.

The workshop started with an introduction about of the project aims and the methodology of Lego Serious Play methods provided by the trainers.

Subsequently, we started with games and activities designed to make people more accustomed to Lego pieces and, in some way, light on the creativity in each one, so that it became more simple to pass to concrete concepts to 3D constructions later on. In this part of the introduction to the game of Lego Serious Play, the trainers asked, in first place, participants to close their eyes and think to a wished super power. Than, they asked to create their own super power with LEGO.

After the participants have gained more confidence with the methods we moved on to the E(u)lections ’19 project aims and we used the same approach one of the 5 possible scenarios of the White Paper on the future of Europe. Each group worked on one of the five scenarios, giving a 3D shape to their opinion and suggestions.

At the end of each new construction, each participant had 2 minutes to explain to the group personal thoughts, doubts and suggestions about the scenario. This stage of the 5 scenarios was very curious because the groups were heterogeneous by gender and age, so we collected diverse points of view.

At the end of the activity, they wrote a summary of the experience and completed a questionnaire to collect key messages for the solutions for the main problems identified.

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E(U) Lections’19 Kickoff Meeting – Lisbon, Portugal, January, 24, 2019

The kick-off meeting of EULECTIONS’19 took place at Iscte- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, on January, 24, 2019.

It was the first time that the representatives from the four organizations, CEI-Iscte and EAYE (Portugal), Fondazione Flaminia (Italy) and CAAT Projects (The Netherlands) had the chance to meet in person, discuss general ideas about the project and set common outputs.

This full day preparatory activity involved 8 participants (5 from Portugal, 2 from Italy, 1 from The Netherlands) in brainstorming and planning sessions to prepare the project’s activities, develop the communication strategy, reflect about methods and evaluation.

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3D models and Europe’s future scenarios – Fusignano, Italy, December, 13, 2019

On the 13th December, at Fusignano, Fondazione Flaminia and Comitato Gemellaggio Fusignano organized a workshop to debate the future of Europe. Using the LEGO Serious Play methodology, the participants shared their ideas through 3D models.

This event took place at the museum and involved the world of local associations, with the twinning committee. The event involved 28 citizens from the city of Fusignano, Italy. This workshop got participants to simulate the European Commission’s 5 Scenarios for The Future of Europe so that they can perceive and express their ideas about the current and future role of the European Union and understand how they can #changEU.

Using Lego Serious Play to think, communicate and present solutions to European problems and challenges

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Online workshop – Il futuro dell’Europa é nelle nostre mani, Italy, May, 25, 2020

The project ChangEU has been promoting workshops in Portugal, Italy and The Netherlands to collect citizens’ perspectives about the future of Europe, focusing on the 5 scenarios put forward by the European Commission. Throughout the project, partners have used non-formal education methods to debate and develop creative ideas about the EU we want. During this period of social distancing, we’ve explored online platforms to develop new and creative ways to promote participation in the discussion about Europe.

Fondazione Flaminia promoted on May, 25, 2020, an online workshop facilitated by Alessandro Bonaccorsi, using the Ugly Design2 methodology, that aimed to use drawing as a way to express ideas and concepts. The event involved 40 citizens, including 37 participants from the city of Ravenna, Italy, 3 from the city of Lisbon, Portugal.

The workshop was expected to be held in the classroom with a class
from the Ravenna art high school, but the lockdown and social isolation did not make it possible to organize a workshop in person.

In a moment of emergency and structural, economic and social crisis that has affected the whole world, we considered fundamental to continue to talk about Europe and the future of the EU.
We have therefore remodelled the workshop to make it usable online,
through the platforms we learned to use during the lockdown period, and we opened it to all citizens, without age limits.

During the workshop, the participants were invited to imagine and convey messages about Europe using drawing, express their opinions about the future, namely which of the 5 scenarios they consider the best option for Europe, and reflect about the fundamental conditions to turn it to reality.

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