We see educators in the social field as Change Agents and we empowered change agents to become drivers for social change. Change Agents need support to be able to empower disadvantaged people. The vision of the CAN DO Democracy is to deepen the understanding of the value of democracy with a focus on accepting conflict and diversity. The project offers spaces and materials for change agents to deepen discourses and adopt new educational approaches for learning and practicing democracy and in order to foster de-radicalization.
The project will produce films, brochures and social media content. The focuses on the CAN DO meetings and products will be "Manifesto on democracy", "Democracy and mental health", "Democracy and value conflicts" and "Democracy and appreciation".
In our CAN DO project, its meetings and activities we are following an holistic approach. We want to "practice what we preach" and we try to do it with "head, heard ad hands". How we do this, which principles and preconditions we are based on you can find in this article about our approach:
The current project is based on previous E+/ KA2 projects, we run since 2014:
In "Can DO CARDs" (2022 – 2024) we empowered change agents to become drivers for social change. In the CAN DO meetings we focused on innovative methods like inter-cultural learning with improvisational theater, democracy learning, participatory methods e.g.. Results of this project were captured and disseminated in brochures and films. Partners of the project came from Spain (Progestion), Sweden (Kista Folghögskola) and Turkey (Young Lives Foundation). Here the Blog of the CAN DO CARDs project.
In "CAN DO Refugees" (2018 – 2021) change agents were professionalized and empowered, who work with refugees on a professional and voluntary basis. Therefore the project combined the experience of practitioners in NGOs VIA Bayern (Germany), Progestión (Spain), Euro Circle (France)) and the knowledge of universities (University of Thessaly (Greece), American University of Cairo (Egypt)). In this project meetings were held, compilations were produced as well as films. Here the Blog of the CAN DO Refugee project.
In "CAN DO Empowerment for social change" (2014 – 2017) intercultural and antidiscrimination trainers were empowered to be change agents within their own local context to deal with discrimination and to share and develop an educational, conceptional and methodological basis. Meetings with these trainers were held in each partner country and videos, a manual and a booklet were produced. Partners in this project came from Spain, Austria, Great Britain, the Netherlands and South Africa. Here the Blog of the CAN DO Empowerment for social change project.
