Imagine a toolkit that uses theater and storytelling to help young people feel they actually have a say in how society works. It's like a gym for citizenship where kids practice solving real-world problems through creative arts. The goal is to stop young people from feeling disconnected or angry and instead give them a way to build a fairer future.
Educational institutions struggle to engage youth in democratic processes due to rising polarization and declining trust. There is a lack of measurable tools to assess the 'democratic health' of learning environments.
A Democracy Health Questionnaire (DHQ) and a Democracy Health Index (DHI) for institutional self-assessment. A scalable Model of Democratic Pedagogy using creative arts and storytelling.
If you are an EdTech platform provider dealing with low student engagement in civic courses — this project developed a Model of Democratic Pedagogy that uses transmedia storytelling to make learning active. This allows you to offer interactive, justice-oriented modules to schools.
If you are an enterprise dealing with the need to prove the impact of your youth empowerment programs — this project developed the Democracy Health Index (DHI). You can use this tool to measure the actual 'democratic health' of the environments where your programs operate.
If you are a municipal provider dealing with political polarization among local youth — this project developed a scalable model using theatre of the oppressed. This helps you create safe spaces for diverse groups to envision and design local solutions.
Based on available project data, there is no specific pricing or cost mentioned for the tools; the project is funded by an EU contribution of EUR 2,999,050.
The project objective specifically mentions the design of a 'scalable and tailorable model' of democratic pedagogy for both formal and non-formal learning environments.
Based on available project data, specific IP or licensing terms are not provided, though the tools were delivered to support education institutions in self-assessment.
The project generates an evidence base to support democratic curriculum development using participatory and creative approaches.
The project runs from 2023-04-01 to 2026-03-31, with the first year already focused on developing and piloting assessment instruments.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward research and academia, with 4 universities and 4 research organizations. However, there is a practical edge with 3 SMEs and 1 industry partner (9% industry ratio), suggesting the project is moving from theoretical pedagogy toward a deliverable product or service that can be adopted by smaller specialized firms.
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