A Community of Practice (CoP) is a dynamic space established by a group of people who share an interest, problem or passion for a specific topic to collaborate on an ongoing basis in order to learn and improve their knowledge, skills or practices in that field. This concept was developed by social theorists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger in the 1990s.
Most important benefits of a CoP:
- Professional and personal development: Members improve their skills and competences.
- Innovation: New ideas are generated by sharing and combining knowledge.
- Problem solving: Allows members to find collective solutions to common challenges.
- Strengthening relationships: Facilitates the establishment of valuable connections between members.
- Knowledge retention: Helps document and share important knowledge within an organisation or field.
The ENNEPlus Community of Practice (CoP) brings together all those passionate about environmental sustainability and social innovation to find digital solutions to real problems in local communities.
The main objective of the space offered here to the CoP is to facilitate the exchange of information, ideas and practices between the selected European VET schools and their local communities as well as with other national and international stakeholders in the field of education and digitisation with a focus on eco-innovation.
Therefore, the CoP aims to connect these educational actors with a wider community of experts, innovators, policy makers, activists and other stakeholders who may be interested in sharing their experience and results in the field of eco-innovation, thus supporting the process of co-creation of innovative solutions to the environmental and sustainability challenges that the local communities represented by the VET schools face.
The CoP will also serve as a connection and a way to establish networks and partnerships between the different actors involved in the CoP, beyond the solutions and projects developed in Erasmus ENNE+.
Structure of the CoP on this platform
In terms of collaborative areas dedicated to the CoP, registered members have the opportunity to interact and cooperate through 4 different categories of collaborative areas:
- VET Teams
These are collaborative spaces, one for each VET team, where only the teacher(s) and their students will be able to work directly on their projects privately, having at their disposal different tools to achieve this.
- Challenge Based Learning Scenarios (CBLS)
There are 10 different CBLS. Within each Challenge-Based Learning Scenario, there is a collaborative space where VET Teams working on that scenario can interact and communicate with each other and with the different stakeholders interested in the scenario, whether they are from their local community or not, and have access to different tools, Open Educational Resources and tutorials provided by experts in order to develop their projects.
- National Chapters
There are 4 collaborative spaces that represent the countries participating in the ENNEPlus project and provide a space for exchange and coordination at the national level between community managers, VET agents, external experts and representatives of local communities interested by the solutions designed with the Eco-Digithon Methodology.
- International Cooperation
A unique collaborative space where all members of the platform, regardless of the environmental scenario they are linked to, the working group they belong to or the country they come from, will have the opportunity to interact and exchange ideas, concerns and interests. This is the group intended for members to establish connections and alliances with a global reach, so it can be the perfect breeding ground for future project collaborations between stakeholders.
CoP Governance
The Governance of the CoP is shared among the partners of the ENNEPlus project, being coordinated by the Spanish organization Innogestiona Ambiental and each of them taking a leading role according to their respective profile.
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