MObilise!
Exploring the power of stories to inspire political and civic engagement
Mobilise! wants to enable active citizenship and increase people's confidence about engaging in political and civic life. It is a partnership between Global Link, a development education charity who work with asylum seekers and refugees in Lancashire, and the team at Lancaster University.
The project will explore historical and contemporary stories of activism collected by two Heritage Funded projects, Documenting Dissent and Remembering Resistance to create online resources and activities about active citizenship. To do this we're going to work with volunteers & local communities of asylum seekers and refugees, so everyone involved feels more confident about participating in political and community life.
The project will explore historical and contemporary stories of activism collected by two Heritage Funded projects, Documenting Dissent and Remembering Resistance to create online resources and activities about active citizenship. To do this we're going to work with volunteers & local communities of asylum seekers and refugees, so everyone involved feels more confident about participating in political and community life.
We're going to be sharing what comes from the project in a few ways
ONLINE RESOURCES
We're going to collaborate with volunteers to create a series of online modules. Drawing on our collections of stories of activism and community engagement, the modules will look at different aspects of active citizenship. These will be available for Global Link to use with the asylum seeker and refugee communities they work with to help inspire confidence and knowledge about how to engage in civic and political life.
mobilise! guide
To capture the learning from the project we're going to co-develop a guide to exploring active citizenship with asylum seeker & refugee communities through heritage, arts & story. It will include engagement & creative activities, resources for workshops & a model of how to work with activist stories to explore & support active citizenship.
The project is guided by a number of ideas
PARTICIPATionMobilise! is a partnership between the community, the charity sector & the university. It is collaborative & is committed to being positive, rewarding & ethical
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CREATIVityWe believe that creative methods, heritage & storytelling are great ways of supporting active citizenship & political engagement
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IMPACTThe project wants to create real change, for those involved in the project & for others interested in civic engagement. To enable this, we'll create resources to share our learning
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Mobilise! is funded by an Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account grant