CENTAUR Multiplier Event

Erasmus+ European Project

Supporting, mobilizing and empowering creative and cultural industry entrepreneurs and educators towards social change!

Wisefour Innovative Company, in the framework of the project Supporting, mobilizing and empowering creative and cultural industry entrepreneurs and educators towards social change – CENTAUR, successfully organized the Project’s Multiplier Event which took place in Cyprus, January 28, 2023.

About the project

The innovative project CENTAUR is being implemented in Cyprus through the ERASMUS+ Programme and the collaboration of of Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart, Blickpunkt Identität (Austria), Wisefour Innovation and Development Organisation Ltd (Cyprus), LISTAHASKOLI ISLANDS (Iceland), and AKADIMAIKO DIADIKTYO (Greece). Multiplier Event Cyprus

CENTAUR (Supporting, mobilizing and empowering creative and cultural industry entrepreneurs and educators towards social change) is a project aiming to support, mobilize and empower entrepreneurs (organisations and individuals) as well as educators and adults active in the creative sector and in the EU cultural tradition, to develop online collaboration and sustainable networks for sharing their knowledge with trainers and adult learners.

The project, is innovative, first and foremost, for making use of the gamification approach and the multiple benefits for groups especially challenged by the present pandemics-related situation. By introducing attractive features of the gaming industry (badges, achievements, avatars, anime) the project will be attractive for its target groups, giving a sense of purpose, progress, achievement, and finality. It will make it easier for all target groups to “come back” to the platform (created in the context of the project’s implementation) and complete the training.

This platform will be innovative for targeting two intertwined target groups at the same time:

a. offer new horizons of opportunity for those in the creative professions and arts in the difficult time of the COVID,

b. train trainers in adult education on how to collaborate with these groups, effectively and efficiently raise creativity in their adults-clients, and contribute to inclusion and integration in the EU culture and at the same time enhance a very broad and critical ability of adult learners.

The purpose of the CENTAUR is to raise interest and offer skills in professionals and adults in order to develop their creativity in constructive ways and in support of inclusion, especially of migrants and other marginalized groups.

Multiplier Event in Cyprus

On Saturday, January 28th 2023, Wisefour had the opportunity to present the CENTAUR Project to a room of professionals, educators and students who represent the Creative and Cultural Sectors in Cyprus. This multiplier event was well attended and took place in the heart of the Old Town of Limassol, which is the home of the Cyprus University of Technology, Department of Fine Arts.

During the presentation, Wisefour highlighted the value that the CENTAUR project has to offer to each different target group. Wisefour’s representative, Mrs Sotira Couvaras, presented the functions offered by the e-Learning Platform for artists, teachers, social workers, employees of NGOs, etc., such as the artist’s database, the self-assessment tool (SAT), the networking hub, and the collection of practices and exercises.

The event closed with a roundtable discussion on the CENTAUR project, where all participants had the opportunity to experience first hand the functions and provisions of the platform and further explore its impact on the CCS community.