New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Initiative category

Identify the award category for which this initiative is being submitted
Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

Email user
muzeuifemijeve@gmail.com

Basic information
Initiative title
Science and Craftsmanship Mobile Museum

Full initiative Title
Science and Craftsmanship Mobile Museum, travelling threw Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia.

Please provide a short, catchy description of your initiative to be used in communication towards the public.
This mobile museum is a traveling program (like Museum on Wheels), bringing Hands-On Interactive Activities to any city or remote area in Albania, Kosovo (also to North Macedonia shortly). It consists of Education based on Science, Experimental Learning, and Craftsmanship Skills. Adapted Exhibits and Garage tool-station Workbenches are transported with a vehicle that stops in different areas and turns back periodically to the same places, with new surprises and programs training skills.

What was the geographical scope of your intiative?
Cross-border/international

Where was your intiative implemented?
Location 1
Albania

Location 2
Kosovo

Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries
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If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
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Does your initiative address mainly urban or rural issues?
Mainly urban

Does your initiative refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your initiative benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your initiative won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Does your initiative has a minimum level of maturity? The minimum level of maturity is exemplified by stakeholder/ initiative promoter commitment to implement the initiative in practice and a clear methodology /approach.
Yes

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As a representative of an organisation
Please provide the contact details for the project promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the project)
- Name of the organisation(s): Muzeu i Femijeve
  Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation
  First name of representative: Helidon
  Last name of representative: Nauni
  Gender: Male
  Nationality: Albania
  Function: Chairman
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Mihal Grameno 11/2
  Town: Tirane
  Postal code: 1000
  Country: Albania
  Direct Tel: +355 69 352 4991
  E-mail: muzeuifemijeve@gmail.com
  Website: https://rdchipstar.wixsite.com/muzeu
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: https://linktr.ee/Muzeu_i_Femijeve_Pluto
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): #steamclubalbania #steamAlbania
- URL: https://www.instagram.com/steam_club_albania/
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): https://linktr.ee/STEAM_Club_Albania
In case my initiative is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my initiative in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
New European Bauhaus or European Commission websites

Description of the initiative
Please provide a summary of your initiative
The project has scientific, educational, and entertaining programs specially adapted for children aged 8-13 through various demonstrations, exhibits, and experimental lab stands. After the road vehicle arrives at the designated location, the tables and tools are taken out and arranged according to the available space. Panels and banners provide relevant explanations or information, but the staff is also available with the necessary clarifications. Participants are individual or small group visitors who are encouraged to touch or use the equipment and tools, interacting with them or each other. There are many topics, so everyone finds something they like and are attracted to. The museum panels are attractive and colorful, inspiring the next generations of technicians and inventors. The program continues for 1-2 days (depending on the participation), and the vehicle travels to the next destination at the end of the activity. Currently, our programs join festive events organized in different cities, with various indoor and outdoor activities. A van transports all materials to the destination and then adapts them to the space designated for our program.
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The project's final goal is the mechanical adaptation of a truck trailer (now under construction), which opens and expands with folding panels (Like a Folding Container) which carry more scientific equipment and bench tools. As a result, the organization is more efficient and straightforward, reaching more children in a shorter time. We are looking for funds and grant for these steps now.

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with 5 key words.
Interactive education

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Mobile museum

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Hands-On learning

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Science exhibits

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Craftmanship Skills

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of sustainability and how these have been/will be met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The main objective is children's education through experiential learning, awakening the desire to work by improving their skills and ability to use tools. Although the required actions are simplified, especially for children's abilities, their result creates functional, valuable objects or creations. These achievements inspire confidence and a desire for other works in the future. Other objectives also emerge here, such as encouraging imagination, critical thinking, and creativity through hands-on exhibits.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The project provides colorful, pleasant, and entertaining access to science and experimentation. The program is exciting and attractive. Full of curiosities and surprises of experiments. The participants are involved and act individually or with the help of each other, cooperating efficiently. The feeling of active learning and acquiring a new skill gives them self-confidence and courage to continue further towards more profound knowledge in any favorite field. Furthermore, various equipment and exhibits provide enlightening programs for a better understanding and a greater appreciation of craftmanship, science subjects, and after-school Micro-Learning.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
As it travels on wheels, the program is accessible to everyone in every city. This Mobile Museum is an active part of the learning and teaching ecosystem. It will act in cooperation with schools, partner organizations, or other actors in the field of education, including local government or private institutions.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the initiative and civil society have been/will be involved in the initiative and what has been/will be the impact of this involvement on the initiative
This initiative's primary beneficiaries are children, who gain new skills, inspiration, and experiences that will serve them in the future. In addition, they are encouraged and stimulated to discover talents and passions that will accompany and help them when they grow up. But also Parents, Educators, Teachers, and Students benefits from this initiative. Indirectly, they are inspired to create a better environment in the service of Learning, Training, and Teaching.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the initiative.
As our project moves and travels everywhere, we are provided with necessary local permits and facilities at the stations we stop, as in public or private spaces. Different city festivals invite us where children or family entertainment is required. Various partners collaborate with our project and share opportunities and responsibilities in cases of city activities or festive organizations.

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your initiative. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was
This project includes and integrates both scientific education knowledge and basic craftsmanship skills. These are closely related because science concepts find direct and practical applications in many professions and craftsman skills. So, through these programs, children receive first impressions of how things are done or why it happens. This will serve them later in many future initiatives.

Please highlight the innovative character of the initiative, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the initiative
There are different innovations behind the project. Mobility sends the initiative everywhere (traveling on wheels). Concepts are acquired through fun activities, which help to memorize easier. Science exhibits simple ideas, nurturing children's creativity and curiosity, gaining Skills with tools and equipment that encourage Making and Creating things — sharing Experiences with Parents and Educators - which help the Teaching environment around us.

Please describe which elements of your initiative could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and contexts. This may involve, for example, aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings, etc.
This project works as a Mobile Museum, traveling everywhere these programs are required. So, this initiative's best and most valuable feature is that it can be transferred easily to many places, reaching more people and bigger groups of participants.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your initiative.
Curiosity is the first step to Learning. But children are also Learning and Playing at the same time. So the project encourages Hands-On activities and takes action with interactive panels to touch, manipulate, use, and perform other functions. Indirectly visitors will learn science concepts and acquire or gain basic skills in different craftsmanship specialties.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the initiative addresses by providing local solutions
The challenges and changes in society today require rapid training with the latest industrial developments that emerge every day, as well as the result of Skills according to the sectors that the future needs. The first step toward this new path is Encouraging the Desire to Learn and the Creativity to Create.
Our initiative helps the Teaching and Learning environment adapt to the times and in this function.

Please detail the scope of progress in the implementation of the initiative. This can include already demonstrated results/outputs related to the chosen Prizes category, and the already achieved benefits from the initiative for direct and indirect beneficiaries. This can also include a development plan of the initiative, with a particular attention to the steps envisaged in the year following the application, and including envisaged results and benefits from the initiative
The project started in 2021, expanding and improving step by step. Currently, our programs join festive events organized in different cities, with various indoor and outdoor activities. A van transports all materials to the destination and then adapted to the space designated for our program.
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The final goal is the constructive adaptation of a truck with a trailer, which opens with folding panels (Like a Folding Container), which carry more scientific equipment and bench tools, and the organization is more efficient and straightforward, reaching more children in a shorter time.
We are looking for funds and grand for this.

Please provide documents that demonstrate the maturity level of the initiative and commitment to implement the initiative in practice (e.g.: evaluation report, final or mid-term initiative report, certification, publications, building permit, grant agreement, letter of support, partnership agreement, etc.)
Web link
Web link
If relevant, please describe how your initiative contributes to developing new competences, especially in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability.
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Yes

By submitting this application, I declare that I am not related to the entities subject to EU restricted measures under Article 29 of the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) and subject to Article 215 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU)1, and entities covered by Commission Guidelines No 2013/C 205/05), which are not eligible to participate in any capacity.
Yes

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By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you read and understand that the ‘Guide to Applicants’ of the NEB Prizes 2023, available online in the website of the NEB Prizes 2023, is an integral part of this application form and that it must therefore be observed when completing and submitting your application.
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