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The event started with the project coordinator Altheo Valentini who presented the BRIGHTS project giving general information about its purpose and objectives. The two national tutors, Alessandro Palazzetti and Luca Pagliaricci, gave then a presentation to introduce themselves, the MOOC and the face-to-face workshop, given that many of the participants present at the event will take part in both of the activities. The main structure of the online course and how to join it was explained and everyone showed interest in the Global Citizenship Education topic. The most attractive part of the presentation was the face-to face workshop and both the participants and the national tutors are looking forward to working together.

The participants were also invited to join the Unite-IT platform and were given the necessary support to register to it and to the MOOC. At the end of the event participants, coordinator and national tutors gathered together to discuss informally on how to tackle the GCE topic and digital storytelling with young people and how to guarantee an efficient collaboration among all stakeholders in the next months.

They will gather the representatives from the formal and informal education, and all the other stakeholders interested in the Global Citizenship Education.

On the event, they will present and promote the BRIGHTS Project and how to participate in the project. Also, they will present the examples of good practice, talk about the topics related to the Global Citizenship Education, and highlight why it is so important in the context of contemporary society.

Read here the program of the multiplier event in (English, Croatian).

If you are interested in participating in the event, please feel free to fill out the registration form on the bottom of the page here. The registration deadline is February 4^th 2018.

The event was held in the premises of the Hellenic Open University in Athens and the target group were stakeholders and trainers/teachers who have been contacted through HOU’s and HEPIS’s networks in Athens. The idea was to present the project (its objectives, ideas, Global Citizenship Education, online community, MOOC) to them as well as familiarise them with the technique of digital story telling and its importance for promoting the principles of Global Citizenship Education.

To make the whole event more interesting the HOU team invited Emeritus Professor Michalis Meimaris, who is a member of Unesco board and with his team has been working in the area of Digital Storytelling in Greece in the last decade or so.

The event started with a welcoming note from Prof Achilles Kameas and was followed by the overall presentation of the BRIGHTS project by Barbara Quatra who is running the project on behalf of the project’s leader, ALL DIGITAL. Importantly for the first dissemination event of the project in Greece Barbara focused both on the project’s idea, objectives and outcomes, as well as on the the concept of Global Citizenship Education and its embeddedness in European and global politics and policies.

Prof. Meimaris introduced the audience to the state of digital story telling in Greece providing illuminating examples of stories already created in the context of previous projects focusing mainly on how digital story telling can enrich the educational process in general. Moreover, he presented a short introduction of the history of the digital storytelling and its academic genealogy. In so doing he both familiarised the audience with digital storytelling and provided the necessary background for the engaging discussion that followed.

The third presentation by Sissie Theodosiou and Mara Aspioti focused on the outcomes of the research conducted in Greece both with trainers/trainees and experts on the presence and importance of Global Citizenship Education. The research outlined also the ways in which digital storytelling can enhance  the process of implementing GSE.

The following presentation by Prof Kameas concerned the content of the planned MOOC  entitled “Addressing Global Citizenship Education through Digital Storytelling”. In the introduction of his presentation Prof kameas outlined the characteristics of a MOOC.

Having  already gained an understanding of the BRIGHTS project, the audience furthered its knowledge about digital story telling and its importance for the promotion of GCE through a focused workshop led by Veronique de Leener from Maks vzw, Belgium,  a partner in BRIGHT’s project. Veronique’s tele- presentation  focused mainly on the story circle, the main methodology employed for creating a digital story. Importantly for such an event, a very interesting and  lively discussion followed.

The audience’s interest was high in both the blended course and the f2f workshops and a high number of the people present expressed their desire to participate.

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