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Welcome to the learning platform of the European BASICC program. We’ll soon be adding content on common spaces in Europe. In the meantime, here’s a brief description of the work we’re doing.
BASICC (Building Alternative Skills to Implement Creativities and Commons) is a European program for training in common spaces. The work is coordinated by Coop’Eskemm, in partnership with 14 other organizations.
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The first area of work is coordinated by the European and Vocational Training Association (EVTA) and concerns links between actors in the organization of common spaces and transitional urbanism and European training organizations. To work on our common issues and values, we have organized seminars to build new knowledge on common spaces. The first event took place in January 2024 in Padua, at the headquarters of the Italian organization ENAIP NET. We also set up a European meeting of learners in Naples, with the aim of identifying and building skills to continue occupying common spaces, notably in Latvia (with Free Riga and Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences) and France (in Rennes with the space called “the Bâtiment à Modeler”).
The second area of work concerns community organization skills, through the implementation of new lifelong learning programs in Europe. Yes We Camp (France), in partnership with Agence Ancoats and Université Gustave Eiffel, is piloting the organization of three European sessions of the French University Certification “Common Spaces” in Brussels, Riga and Naples. A pilot project to create a university certification in Latvia is also planned for 2025. A European roadmap for the ongoing organization of European training programs on the organization of common spaces will be delivered in the second half of 2025.
The third area of work concerns reflexive skills. It is led by members of Asilo (Naples, Italy). Research is being carried out in 5 cities: Naples, Paris (with Plateau Urbain and EHESP), Kiel (with Alte Mu), Istanbul (with Yeditepe University) and Brussels (with Communa). The aim of the action-research is to build new knowledge on common spaces and identify the research capacities of the actors who occupy the spaces left vacant by urban change. The creation of a training program for the acquisition of reflexive skills on common spaces is planned for 2025.
Our fourth axis focuses on place management skills for people in need of new qualifications, drawing on a training program run by AFPA (France). The aim of the project is to enable learners to complete their training in third places, using a work-based learning system.
By setting up new training courses or adapting existing ones, our program should help to continue the process of structuring and professionalizing common spaces in Europe.
To give a wider public access to our work, we are also setting up a digital learning platform and video documentation of the program. These creations are produced by SMK Factory.
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