It has become easier to engage European citizens with finding health and welfare solutions catered for the future.
The Erasmus+ project Co-Creating Welfare has developed a profound toolbox for co-creation in nursing homes and hospitals, in municipalities and schools. It provides tools to challenges such as aging populations, obesity among children, climate change and social integration of refugees.
The project has developed models, tools, education, and training courses that helps municipalities and other public and private welfare actors in their implementation of co-creation projects with citizens and other end users.
Odense Municipality and the British National Health Service (NHS) are among the organisations that have received training in the project and have subsequently carried out co-creation processes.
“We experienced how important an organization’s commitment to the project can be. In the NHS there was support from the beginning and they now have co-creation processes running at all levels, local as well as regional and national. It’s really impressive, they have a strong momentum,” says Joe Askew from Coventry University in England.
“The most important thing is the many new experiences we have gained. We have learned and demonstrated various interesting methods that we can now use in our daily teaching,” says Frants Christensen from University College Lillebælt, who as lead partner in the project collaborated with universities in England, France, and Portugal.
Get the tools as well! You can experiment with:
CUbe – or a similar square game where participants can share ideas and kick-start discussions.
Photo and poster activities – where the participants put issues in context, work to define and communicate themes and unite external and internal viewpoints.
Story Cubes – a cube game with icons and illustrations that help tell stories from your own and other people’s perspectives.
Fishbowl – a two-circle group exercise where the inner circle discusses an issue while the outer circle observes the debate. The two circles then switch places, and finally, everyone discusses the basic issue. On Co-Creating Welfare’s new website, you can also get inspiration to start your own co-creation project – and hear from the project partners themselves on what they have experienced and learned. Click here!
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