"<< Background >>Since 1992 and the Earth Summit in Rio, scientists have continued to warn about the state of our planet and, despite this absolute emergency, we are in 2021 and we still do not see the change of behaviors adequate to the emergency to achieve planetary goals.All over the world, people in precarious situations are and will be the most exposed to climate and environmental changes and their consequences. In priority neighborhoods, many organisations are working on these issues and progressing along the inhabitants, but most often these efforts are one-off actions affecting a small number of people. The ecological issue in the broad sense seems difficult to tackle with audiences whose priority is obviously socio-economic.The transition is often seen as a matter of engineers, industrial innovations and relationships. However, calibrated and formal speeches are not enough to bring about a socio-cultural evolution. We absolutely need to explore new paths, to enchant the ecological transition, to build new stories by involving all inhabitants in their cultural and social diversity.<< Objectives >>We wish to adapt a methodology for narrating transitions, specifically adapted to the constraints of priority neighborhoods. This project should enable all residents and stakeholders in those neighborhoods, in Europe and around the world, to rely on tools developed, adapted and tested thanks to a partnership between 4 countries, France, Italy, Spain. and Portugal.We want to be at the service of those who are the most exposed, so that they can find ways, collectively, to organize their resilience in the face of climate and environmental emergencies.This project is intended to promote the inclusion of all audiences on the issues of ecological transition, by equipping the educators and trainers who work with them on a daily basis. The choice of the ""storytelling tool"" is a way to address all residents in all their cultural and social diversity to invite the broadest participation without specific preconditions. Our project is aimed directly at adults who, themselves, are involved in adult education in the neighborhoods. One of the main objectives is to increase their skills and participate in the co-construction of results.Our project aims to accelerate the ecological transition in priority neighborhoods of the European Union and contribute to the sustainable improvement of the living conditions of vulnerable populations.<< Implementation >>The project consists of two main phases. The first is a study phase, which will lead to a better understanding of the relationship that inhabitants of priority neighbourhoods have with the challenges of ecological transition. This is a sociological survey, conducted in conjunction with stakeholders and residents, that will be carried out in Italy, Spain and France. This cross-survey should highlight the levers and brakes that characterize these territories, whatever the country, to accelerate the ecological transition thanks to the storytelling tool. The second phase involves the construction of a methodological guide, based on the work of the Fabrique des Transitions, in France, and adapted to the dynamics of the priority neighborhoods identified in the study phase. It is the actors of these neighbourhoods who will co-construct and evaluate these tools.<< Results >>The project must provide all communities, stakeholders and residents of priority neighbourhoods in Europe with a complete methodological guide, with variations depending on the particuliarities of the territories. This guide, combined with a toolbox, will be the result of work deeply rooted in the field and carried out by the people who work in those neighbourhoods on a daily basis. Beyond the methodology, the project will create or strengthen a collective and transversal dynamic in the heart of the neighbourhoods, a desire to act with new perspectives and shared and friendly objectives. There is a strong demand across Europe to see new solutions of social transformation emerge, so that territories can finally take hold of these urgent issues, and see in the ecological transition a real opportunity to reinvent themselves collectively and positively."

“FABLABs – new technologies in adult education” project is a Strategic Partnership that involves 6 organisations from Finland, France, Iceland, Poland and Portugal acting as fablabs and makerspaces. The objective of the project is to share good practices on teaching methodologies used in fablab work and targeted at adult learners. Fablabs (laboratories of digital fabrication) are a new type of learning environments and a network of learning communities. They are community-based spaces focused on technological innovation, do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others production and make-to-learn approach, and they provide their users with introduction to new technologies. The project aims at: exchanging experiences and good practices between the participating organisations, exchanging education methods and practices, professional development of people working in fablabs as educators and managers, comparative research on teaching new technologies in non-formal education in various European countries and, finally, at strengthening cooperation and networking between fablabs in Europe. The final result of the project will be the project guidelines on educational activities and methods used in fablab work. The main project activities will be six transnational project meetings, gathering fablab managers and educators, local workshops for adult learners in each country and a collaborative work of partners on the final result (the guidelines). With this project we aim at spreading knowledge about fablab idea and approach and having an impact on other fablabs and educational institutions in our respective countries. Project results will be directly implemented into our educational practices, as well as shared with fablab community around the world. With this project we would like fablabs to be recognized as a new type of modern learning environments that support adult learners in gaining basic skills and key competences, using science and technology. The impact of the project will also refer to recognition of fablab movement as a network of powerful learning communities, that are able to collaborate on local, national and global levels.