NICE: New Ways to Inclusion through Circular Economy

"<< Background >>Fighting against the climate change and leaving no one behind in our societies are the two main challenges in this day and age. Based on our organisations´ missions we already promote inclusion, solidarity, sustainability and the protection of the environment in our social circular economy businesses/projects for a long time. With the help of the project ""NICE"" we want to enhance the adult education potentialof these businesses/projects in their communities in order to make them ""flagship"" stores/projects for circular economy & inclusion and a nucleus for ""ambassadors"" for circular economy & inclusion. For adult education professionals we develop a training curriculum of 10 steps for the development of their businesses/projects and create awareness-raising material. For adult education learners we develop regardless their socio-economic backgrounds a training curriculum to become multipliers for issues of inclusion & circular economy. Through the project the local communities get inclusive learning places for adults with expertise in circular economy issues for the whole community. Other adult education organisations and communities can use the material of NICE to stimulate equivalent developments in their regions.<< Objectives >>We want to enhance the adult education professionals in our and other social circular economy businesses/projects. We want to train adult learners to be able to multiply knowledge and the vision of inclusion and circular economy. Doing this we intend to empower the adult learners for their professional and private future lifes. We want to make the social circular economy businesses/projects as inclusive, attractive and inspiring places for the whole community dedicated to lifelong learning, to sustainability and solidarity. We want to bridge the gap between community members of different socioeconomic backgrounds on the vision of circular economy and inclusion. We want to develop a role model for other NGOs and adult education organisations that can be followed and adapted.<< Implementation >>Beside activities linked to the project management and the steering of the project process the core activities of the project existed of the development, piloting, evaluating, adapting and finalizing of the project results ""10 Steps to become a Flagship S<< Results >>We produced two major project results: a training package for services, projects and stores on inclusion and circular economy ""10 Steps to become a Flagship Store/Project for Inclusion and CircularEconomy"" and an ""European Training Curriculum for Ambass"