‘Reimagining Recognition’ is a capacity building project between 7 partner organisations from Armenia, Finland, Georgia, Ireland, Lithuania, Moldova and Ukraine.General aim of this project:Develop capacity of youth work organisation to use, promote and mainstream digital Open Badges for recognition and validation of non-formal learning in participating countries.Specific objectives expected to be achieved:1. Increase understanding of good practices and tools for validation and recognition of non-formal learning in participating countries and at European level through research, study visit and impact evaluation activities.2. Develop capacity of youth work organisations to promote and use innovative technology of digital Open Badges for validation and recognitions of non-formal learning through local and international badge training activities.2. Create country-specific prototypes of badge-based online recognition solutions by involving young people and youth workers in design and testing activities.3. Increase awareness of benefits and value of digital Open Badges for validation and recognition of learning by implementing online and offline communication campaign activities.4. Produce recommendations for policy and practice of validation and recognition of non-formal learning through implementing future search conferences with youth leaders, youth workers and youth policy decision makers.Target groups, directly involved in activities of this project:- Youth leaders and youth workers- Decision makers- Young peopleDuration of the project:2 years, starting from the 1st of October 2018 and finishing 30th of September 2020Capacity building activities:- Partners kick-off meeting in Moldova- Partners progress meeting in Ukraine- Research of good practices of validation and recognition of non-formal learning (review report)- Developing and implementing awareness raising campaign (campaign materials and activities)- Creating and testing prototypes with young people and youth workers (focus groups and local badge inception workshops)- Recommendations for policy and practice of recognition (future search conferences with youth leaders and decision makers)Mobility activities of this project:- Study visit about recognition policies and practices in Lithuania- Training activity about digital youth work and badge system design in Finland- Impact evaluation seminar in GeorgiaExpected impact:Developed competence of youth leaders and youth workers to implement and promote badge-based recognition practices leading to young people’s increased opportunities for career and further education ; Awareness raising about benefits and potential of digital Open Badges. Increased capacity to influence policy and implement practice of validation and recognition of non-formal learning by using innovative technology of digital Open Badges; Created and tested prototypes of digital tools for validation and recognition of non-formal learning

"<< Background >>If Europe does have a certain identity, it lacks a solid affirmation of a common culture and in particular the sharing of ethical and aesthetic values, the only ones capable of bringing people together around mobilizing objectives. There is therefore a need, thanks to cooperation between European countries, to bring about the emergence of ""European culture"" allowing in the long term, following the introduction of this culture into educational programs, that European citizenship is more significant among young Europeans. This will strengthen among European citizens a strong common sense of belonging conferring on the European Union a new impetus.<< Objectives >>The object of the project is that, thanks to the cooperation between a dozen European partners belonging to the world of education, we can contribute to ""the emergence of"" European culture ""as it is currently perceived, allowing in the long term, following the introduction of this culture in educational programs, European citizenship should be more prevalent among young Europeans.<< Implementation >>To achieve this objective four steps will be necessary: ​​1. Determine, for each partner, the method enabling them to reveal the nature and content of European culture as they perceive it. 2. Bring together all these results in order to bring about the emergence of a European culture common to all. 3. Realize how European culture can be integrated into school curricula and thus enable pupils to become more aware of their European citizenship, by implementing experiments in primary or secondary schools. 4. Analyze and compare the results of the experiments to identify the most effective practices and draw lessons for the European Union.<< Results >>The expected results are of several types: first, the emergence of what constitutes in each of the ten partner countries European culture as it is perceived there; then emergence of European culture as perceived this time by the 10 partners together; then the development in each partner country of an experiment allowing teachers and pupils (primary or secondary) who will participate to become familiar with European culture and to better discern and understand the importance of European citizenship which results from it . Ultimately, this will have a lasting impact on practices within European schools. In addition, the project will develop five major intellectual outputs: a framework of knowledge and skills in European culture; then three comparative analyzes: that of the methods of teaching culture in the partner countries; that of the methods used to reveal European culture in each partner country; that of the methods of teaching European culture in the schools where the experiments will take place. And last intellectual production, a series of videos on what, in all the partner countries, think the pupils and the teachers participating in the experiments, of European culture. All of these activities will result in a better knowledge of European culture allowing Union citizens to become more aware of the values ​​and legacies that they share together, leading them to feel more European citizens and to 'Union to grow stronger."