The project trans-making aims to establish a multilateral network of research and innovation staff active in the fields of placemaking/place-based art activities as a space to create alternative narratives for social, economic and democratic renewal. It will investigate and experiment with placemaking to contribute actively to the democratization/well-being of society, educating and empowering individuals and disadvantaged minorities through research and production in the connection between art and new technologies. The objective is to strengthen research capacities, through exchange of knowledge and expertise between academic and non-academic partners from Europe and Third Countries in a shared research programme focused on: collecting, documenting / Exploring, experimenting / Performing / Designing. Trough those work programme of Research and Innovation, the consortium, academic and non-academics partners, aims to foster links between art and culture, economy, democracy and innovation at EU level and beyond. To foster entrepreneurial skills, risk taking adaptability, innovation capacity (economic, social and democratic). And it will contribute actively to education and empowerment of individuals and disadvantaged minorities trough research and production between art and new technologies. The project through its consortium will be to foster a better understanding and knowledge sharing between scientific community, stakeholders and policy-makers. Which will be achieved with the respective networks of the involved partners. The final aim of trans-making will be to establish a long term collaboration among the partners in order to have a scientific and innovative worldwide community devoted to the research, (including art-based research), innovation, education activity in the matters concerned by the project. Moreover, the proposed measures of the project will be conceived in order to have the widest possible impact of the society.

“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.

Regarding the access to cultural and heritage resources and sites, this is the current situation:* museums and other cultural sites have an important attendance gap. People with a high socio- economical and educational level are the majority of their public while those in disadvantage or with difficulties of inclusion (such as disabled people, migrants, elderly, people with low qualifications...) don’t even consider cultural sites and heritage as a real valuable alternative in formal, non-formal and informal education; not even as a leisure resource.* access to so—called high culture of all citizenship is vital to guarantee inclusion, cohesion, sense of purpose, social participation and, in general, quatily of democracy in all the different countries as well as the European project.* adult education, vocational and second opportunity centres have a great proportion of this target groups among their students. They need resources not only in literacy but also resources in terms of socio-cultural inclusion, active citizenship and, of course, digital competence which implies an added gap in itself.* the mentioned lifelong learning centres do not have a stable cooperation scheme and set methodology with museums, cultural and heritage sites of their community and scarcely make use of on-line resources such as virtual visits or projects such as Google Arts&Culture, among many others.* technological development allows to foster cooperation processes and the creation of resources for all (universal accessibility and design) catering for diversity in an easy and useful way.* cooperative european projects such us Erasmus+ allows design, development and testing of work flows that meet those detected necessities.* in 2021 Europe will celebrate a Jacobean Year, a special celebrations of the Way of St. James, the first European Cultural Itinerary declared in 1987 in recognition to its contribution to the shared culture and values of Europe. No European citizen should be left behind of this event and it is a fantastic opportunity for field tests.* Design Thinking has shown itself as a powerful tool to develop and implement by means of multidisciplinary approaches, resources of value in mixed fields.Thus this project is aimed to:* a strategic association in innovation that works towards the full and inclusive participation of groups at risk of exclusion by means of technological, on-line and universal accessibility resources, taking advantage of shared work with adult education centres to provide resources for this teachers and pupils to consider cultural and heritage resources a valuable means of inclusion and active social participation. We will also work closely with relevant user groups in the different phases of the work (design, testing, etc).All this will result in 4 intellectual outputs:* Accessible Info App for Museums (AIAM)- A web app meant to provide accessible information for all.* Best practices and improvement areas Report: on Cultural and heritage sites as adult education resources.* Design, proof of concept and, if possible, full development of tech products resulting from the former report, as well as their user's guides.* Report on methodologies, procedures and resources in cultural-adult education cooperation.As well as the intellectual outputs a capacity building 3-day course will take place:* Cognitive and communicative accessibility in cultural sites course – for cultural workers and adult teachers together, although mainly for the former as the latter are expected to have better competences on that area.