The project was created in response to the difficult situation of single parents (SP) and the all-European need to support this target group. It reacts as well to a consistent need for training of professionals working with SP families and fragile families.The project also addresses parents/families in general, with the aim of streghtening functional models, helping families at risk and preventing further problems in societies.The project aims to increase public awareness of the situation of SP and believes that the dissemination will lead to a less biased view of SP and their needs. It also points at fragility and demanding nature of parenting in today’s quickly changing European societies.Specific objectives:1. Provide accredited, accessible and high-quality L&D opportunities for SP and fragile families as well as those who work with them. Providing courses to these families as well as to professionals will help to achieve sustainability of the outcomes and their repeated use.2. Implement new technologies in a meaningful way so as to foster involvement of all types of learners and facilitate efficient and long-lasting learning.3. Prevent or decrease poverty and exhaustion, and thus prevent further social risks and behavioural disturbances in SP and fragile families, including negative outcomes of children growing up in these families.4. Prevent family conflict or break up by stressing family resilienceThe project exploits results of previous projects on SP and adult education and additionaly develops educational modules both for parents and professionals from a wide variety of organizations. We plan to involve both types of learners more intensively in the online learning and maximise the long-term outcomes of the learning for them.The four outputs are open online courses/blended learning courses focused on the four groups to provide holistic, sustainable support to SP and parents:O1. disadvantaged SP aiming to succeed at the labour market (long-term course New Horizons)O2. professionals working with disadvantaged SP (course for New Horizons facilitators Professional Development Award in Family Support)O3. single parents in need of specialized support and parents from families at risk (Parenting, Relationships and Life Skills for Stronger Families, a series of short online courses collateral to New Horizons)O4. professionals providing parental or family support to parents/families at risk (extensive online course Family RESILIENCE)MULTIPLIER EVENT “Stronger Parents, Stronger Families: Towards Stronger Community”1 day seminar for stakeholders, held in Prague and available on-line.TRAINING ACTIVITIESShort-term joint staff training events:- Staff training on long-term course for single parents- Staff training on online course for facilitators- Staff training on online courses for families- Staff training on online course for professionalsMETHODOLOGY- Developing online or blended courses on Moodle platform, using self-assessment tools, text, graphics, examples- Qualitative and quantitative surveys of participants’ experience- Collaboration in transnational teams to ensure intercultural relevance and experience transfer- Mutual experience exchange and evaluationRESULTSThe project will also produce:- Cooperation contract and other documents specifying the project activities in more detail (plan and policy for dissemination)- Updated database of contacts of relevant stakeholders- Database of resources (publications, methods, tools) for developing L&D activities for the target groups- Collection of different approaches and methodologies in L&D activities for single parents and parents, and for professionals working with them- Database of tools for monitoring the quality of outputs- Results and methodology of a qualitative research describing the situation of single parents and parents in the partners' countries- Web pages with the project outputs and shared experience in each partner's websitesIMPACT:1. Single parents: prevention of or progress out of social exclusion, poverty and exhaustion2. Children of single parents: prevention of long-term detrimental effects on school outcomes and well-being3. Fragile families: avoidance or resolution of stressful situations/conflict through increased competence and resilience4. Professionals: increased confidence and ability to serve diverse types of families5. Stakeholders: new tools for target groups and a ground for new measures for SP6. Society as a whole: increased awareness of needs of single parents and fragile families via dissemination activities

The ways in which we regulate for engagement need a radical re-design. When businesses, professionals and policy-makers set up forums to 'allow' communities to participate in decision-making all too frequently community members' voices are not heard. Academic approaches to regulation are stuck in a cul-de-sac of co-regulation, which only enables relatively powerful actors to be engaged. We start from a different place. We ask: How can we harness the expertise, knowledge and passions of communities to design more effective systems for community engagement? In doing so, we aim to turn the academic and policy-maker dialogue around, from regulation of engagement to regulating for engagement. This programme will bring together a wide range of experts to investigate and challenge how and where community engagement takes place. The experts are drawn from - People working within communities - Academic researchers Researchers and communities will work together to co-produce the research programme. Together they will decide what is to be researched and design the ways in which research is carried out. Community members will be involved in doing the research and getting the research ideas out to other communities, policy-makers, service providers and businesses. We will interact through - A Programme Website and other digital social media to generate research ideas that meet community needs and discussion concerning the nature of engagement - The Productive Communities Research Forum which will decide on the research agenda and design projects - Half-yearly Festivals to get our ideas out to a wider audience of communities, policy-makers and business. The strength of the partnership between Bristol and Cardiff universities lies in the diversity of communities we work with, from de-industrialised south Wales' valleys, to inner-city ethnic minority communities and social enterprises experimenting with alternative ways of organising. Research projects co-produced by those working in communities and academic researchers will be focused around three themes which reflect the expertise of the academic researchers: - Mobilising neighbourhoods: examining how law, geography and the social make-up of neighbourhoods offer bridges and / or create barriers to communities engaging with policy-makers, government and business - Harnessing digital space: experimentation with websites, social media and mobile phone technologies to create digital spaces that allow communities to harness existing expertise and develop new skills to engage in policy-making and politics - Spaces of dissent: working in collaboration with key organisations and activists, we will identify how new understandings and practices are developed when groups offer resistance, exploring if and how these practices create new ways of engaging Our 'cross-border' collaboration between communities and academics in southwest England and south Wales will enable us to contrast the different ways that community engagement is enabled and controlled in two nations of the devolved UK. These insights will allow us, together, to create new bottom-up experiments in community engagement.

Place is fixed, but people move. Bristol's peoples move through life and across the city; they move to it and out of it; they move across the globe, and - sometimes - back again. This fluidity runs along and around fixity: ties to people and places elsewhere, which link individuals and the city itself to other points around the world, as well as the immobilities of 'marginalised' communities. This project explores strategies and tools - digital and otherwise - to trace and link the fluid and the fixed. Know Your Bristol On The Move builds on a track record of community co-production initiatives and the 2012-13 AHRC 'Know Your Bristol' and 'Know Your Bristol Stories' projects, collaborations with Bristol City Council's Know Your Place (KYP) team and community partners, which developed a heritage research co-production toolkit. This helped partners develop community archives to support their own research, and showcased how they could be used in the KYP web resource www.bristol.gov.uk/knowyourplace. This award-winning resource, launched in March 2011, provides greater access to archives, encourages community interaction with and reuse of this material, informs neighbourhood planning exercises, and enhances Bristol City Council records through direct community, or crowd-sourced contributions to the Historic Environment Record (HER). Our project asks key questions: 1) how does the collection, interconnection and presentation of contemporary, crowdsourced digital materials created and shaped through community partnerships generate new understandings of history on the move? 2) how do mobility and longer histories of dwelling affect people's senses of place and how might this be visualised with digital mapping tools? 3) what are the conceptual and technical challenges involved creating digital networks across different archival sources, existing tools and institutional structures? 4) how might the intellectual property inherent in cultural heritage be shared across communities, research institutions and the public sector and what questions about ownership and data management might be generated by different approaches to web-based tools and mobile applications? 5) how might communities co-develop archival frameworks to include domestic and informal materials that produce new understandings and experiences of place? 6) as one size will not fit all and given the diversities of (and within) communities concerned, what repertoires of complementary tools and approaches might best support and enable different 'types' of group? To answer these questions, the project will create: a mobile view of the existing KYP site, a new platform for community digital mapping, as well as two new apps for it. A 'Know Your Bus' will form a different kind of sustainable mobile platform: a space for digital creation and co-production of research and learning, an equipped space that can travel to sites & communities. We will augment an archive at the heart of the Council's infrastructure, and we will explore the creation of mobile archives, treasure chests for family history. We will work with 8 different communities, co-developing and assessing different portfolios of tools for community research, deploying high-, low- and no-tech, working with makers, artists, software developers, the old, the young, communities of interest and communities of place. We will build on the City Council & University of Bristol collaboration, as well as related activity more widely within the university and city.