Project plan l4 c en

L4C: 23/09/2015

Project plan

A European project

«Europe 2020 is the European Union’s ten-year jobs and growth strategy. It was launched in 2010 to create the conditions for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. »

Extract from European Commission website: http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/europe-2020-in-a-nutshell/index_en.htm

« Smart growth means improving the EU's performance in three areas: education (encouraging people to learn, study and update their skills);

research/innovation (creating new products/services that generate growth and jobs and help address social challenges);

digital society (using information and communication technologies to the best advantage).

Extract from European Commission website: http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/europe-2020-in-a-nutshell/priorities/smart-growth/index_en.htm

Education

Research and innovation

Digital society

are the 3 fundamentals of Learn for Change;

are the 3 direct aims of Learn for Change.

Indirect aims (through developed projects) of Learn for Change

« Learn for Change's ambition is to become a tool for the

implementation of European Union strategy by promoting projects in the service of a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. »

Learn for Change fits the European strategy and it is for this reason that it could qualify for European finance.

Direct aims:

Education Research and innovation Digital society

Indirect aims :

Fostering projects in the interests of growth

smart, sustainable,

inclusive

« Learn for Change's mission is to become

an instrument of European strategyThe European Commission will adopt this instrument

by financing and creating a dedicated programme »

« In order to convince the European Commission to create a dedicated programme,

we'll need time and arguments: the feasibility and relevance of the project have to be demonstrated »

Extract from « Conjectures and Refutations » Karl Popper (1963)

Demonstrate feasibility of the project

« If I were asked : How do you know ? How do you know what you know ? How do you know what you say ? / ... / I would reply : I do not know / ... / But, if the problem I was trying to solve with this hypothesis, is of interest to you, you can help me by criticizing it as severely as you can, and if you can designate an experimental test that you think could refute it, it is with joy that I 'll help you with it. »

Learn for Change's project is based on 3 assumptions:Union of knowledge

It's possible to produce and conduct courses, lectures, etc. in different languages and in different countries throughout Europe.

Union of innovation

Technologies and methodologies of collaborative innovation will help us to enhance resources presented by the participants

Com-Union

Users play the game

« We need to set up a test- we need to produce a MOOC

in several countries; and including with it an innovative project; that users will co-develop. »

In order to demonstrate feasibility of the project, we need to prove these 3 assumptions:

« A scale model of the project in the form of a MOOC - A development tool of Learn for Change»

MOOC « -Start to learn- Start to Change -»


« The MOOC "Start to learn - Start to change" will be about "use of collaborative innovation tools in project management"

it will be publicized and promoted locally in France, Germany, Poland and in Ukraine »

Co-Production of a MOOC


« The community formed around the MOOC may participate in a collaborative project during and after the MOOC:

the collaborative project in question is none other than the Learn for Change project itself. »

Co-Construction


« The intelligent use of community, of the resources that it represents, by tools and methologies of collaborative innovation,

will provide the resources for the project Learn for Change. »

Collaborative Innovation


« Thousands of those people registered as part of the MOOC will turn out to be only minimally involved, but even so their number is their strength. The are a community that is not highly qualified, varied in nature but initially interested in the subjects.

It's an ideal resource for researching views, for support and for relaying communication campaigns or co-funding campaigns. »


Crowd…


« Hundreds of involved users will participate in workshops solving problems and developing solutions, related to the Learn for Change project.

Establishment of a project plan: specifications, general design, rules of governance… Preparation of a viral marketing campaign Preparation of financing campaign …


Intelligence collective


« Dozens of users with unique skills will be identified and would be recruited or co-opted.

They will constitute the project team in charge of its global development as well as its local development by forming a specific country team.


Smartsourcing

« The success of this MOOC will demonstrate the feasibility of the overall Learn for Change project

and will directly contribute to its development and its deployment »


Definition of needs Co-building of a solution

Recruitment of a project team

FinancingDevelopment of the Learn for Change

Platform

Beta-test

Launch of the Learn for Change platform


« Once the feasibility of the project is proven, its relevance has still to be demonstrated…

in order to justify European finance »

« Prospective study to evaluate the impact of the Learn for Change project»

PROSPECTIVE STUDY -Learn for Change-

-what does that change?-

« The relevance of a project can be evaluated by using the ratio between the level of commitment and its effects

this is why we should evaluate the resources needed, and estimate the benefits by means of a prospective study:

-Learn for Change- -what does that change?- »

Community of professionals

and supported by innovation technologies and methodologies, will be in charge of evaluating impacts on

College of experts limited in size

civil societypublics servicesprivate companies

A collaborative study

Entrep

on the forecast benefits of Learn

for Change in terms of growth

smart, sustainable and inclusive.

PROSPECTIVE STUDY -Learn for Change-

-what does that change?-

MOOC « -Start to learn- Start to Change -» +

will be the main elements of the dossier to be presented in order to obtain a European programme dedicated to the platform Learn for Change »

« PROSPECTIVE STUDY

-Learn for Change- -what does that change?-

« Proof and relevance are not enough to get a European budget, it takes time also…

in order to convince Europe to assume ownership of the project and create a dedicated programme »

« While waiting for agreement on a dedicated programme, Learn for Change may use already existing European programmes…

Erasmus + : « EU programme for

education, training, youth and sport »

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/index_en.htm

H2020 : « The EU framework

programme for research and innovation »

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/

Digital agenda for Europe :

« proposes to better exploit the potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in order to foster innovation, economic growth and progress.http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/digital-agenda-europe-2020-strategy

« These programmes will ensure the financing of the project from the launch of Lean for Change…

till the creation of a specific European programme»

Development plan

Step 1: Priming the pump

•MOOC: Start to Learn - Start to Change •Prospective study: Learn for Change - What does that

Step 2: Launch

•Creation of the platform •Co-producing of first

MOOCs in a few European countries •Management of the first

innovative projects

Step 3: Operation

•Platform improvement •Co-producing of scientific

and training contents in all European countries

•Management of innovative projects

Private financing

Private and European financing through existing European programmes

European financing through a programme dedicated to Learn for Change

Funding:Private companies who think that collaborative innovation may

be a source of growth, and that the Learn for Change project may be profitable for them.


Public aid to innovation from institutions who think that the Learn for Change project may have positive impact.

Self-financing. Get access to European finance over the medium to long term

Prepare European financing file

Prospective study : Learn for Change - What does

that change?

MOOC Start to Learn - Start to Change

Definition of needs

Design of innovative solutions

Recruitment of a project team

Develop the foundations of Learn for Change project

Aims

Means

Results

Financing of step N°2 Development of Learn for Change

platform


Step 2: Launch

Funding:European programmes which estimate that Learn for Change will help them to reach specific goals:

Education for Erasmus + Innovation for H2020 Digital society for Agenda digital for Europe

Private financing through raising capital from companies and individuals (crowdfunding)

Heritage from step N°1

Launch

of Learn for Change platform

Deployment

of the platform in the different European countries

X Country

Beta-Test

Launch of

Learn for Change

platform

Technical development

of the platform

Co-creation of MOOCs and other materials

Co-Design of innovating projects

$Project plan Project team Funding

Step 2: Launch

Step 3: Operation

Funding: European programme dedicated to Learn for Change project

Self-financing

Step 3: Operation

Development

+ contents + projects + users

Self-financing

Learn for Change’s Business model:

Selling accès

Heritage from step N°2

Continuation of deployment

X Country

« The main mission of Lean for Change platform… is to connect ideas, knowledge, people and project.

it's the added value of the platform. Its business model: the sale of services giving access to resources that communities and ideas represent. »

Self-financing

Direct incomes: « Sale of services to access communities and ideas will cover all or part of the running and developing costs of Learn for Change

Indirect incomes: « Taxes on the increase in growth and on other positive impacts of the

Learn for Change project, will be allocated (if necessary) to the operating budget, and will cover and exceed the initial investment»

Self-financing

Prepared by Emmanuel de Bettignies - CEO of ODAESS-Consulting