Presentation of the DOIT project at DOIT's first expert meeting in Vienna (2019-02-21)

1. This project has received funding from
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 77006
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H2020-770063
The maker movement, social
innovation and the DOIT
Programme: Pilot experiences and
first policy recommendations
Vienna, 2019-02-21
Dr. Sandra Schön, Salzburg Research
Dr. Veronika Hornung-Prähauser
1

2. I. DOIT –
A EUROPEAN INITIATIVE

3. Innovates
entrepreneurial
education in
makerspaces

4. DOIT – A European Initiative
DOIT develops, tests, evaluates and disseminate
• a new learning approach for early
entrepreneurial education with social
innovation in makerspace settings (DOIT
programme) and
• open licensed materials (DOIT toolbox).
Duration: 10/2017-09/2020
Grant: EC Horizon 2020 Research &
Innovation Action 770063 (2,4 million)
Webpage: http://DOIT-Europe.net

5. “Most of what you hear about
entrepreneurship is all wrong.
It’s not magic;
it’s not mysterious;
and it has nothing to do with genes.
It’s a discipline and, like any
discipline, it can be learned.”
Peter F. Drucker

6. 3 strands
of DOIT‘s
learning
approach
ENTRE-
PRENEURIAL
EDUCATION
MAKERSPACE
& DIGITAL
FABRICATION
TOOLS
SOCIAL
INNOVATION

7. SocialInnovation
Social innovation meets social
needs and solves burning
societal challenges.
Schön, Ebner & Hornung-Prähauser (2017) -
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32
4313817

8. Entrepreneurial
Education
Developing the skills and mind-
set, which allows people to turn
creative ideas into
entrepreneurial action.
European Commission’s Thematic Working
Group on Entrepreneurship Education

9. Makerspace
Learning room with
digital fabrication tools
for co-design and
prototyping

10. Makerspaces
inEurope
Source: DOIT‘s first policy brief
September 2018
Fab Labs >1.300 550 (estimate)
(digital design
and fabrication)
Hackerspaces >1.400 300 (estimate)
(coding, open
source)
Other unknown 300 (estimate)
makerspaces
(creative & social)

11. Objective of the DOIT programme
Support skills development for all steps in an innovation project
journey: identify the social need, create together, prototype and
sharing the idea of a new solution at young age.

12. DOIT programme:
7 steps for young social innovators in digital world
EXPLORE
Do it because
you can
SENSITISE
Do what
matters
WORKTOGETHER
Do it together
CREATE
Do it now
REFLECT
Do it better
SCALE-UP
Do more
of it
SHARE
Do inspire
others

13. DOIT supports children and facilitators
Online end of February 2019
DOIT‘s toolbox and materials

14. Some more (future) DOIT results
Policy recommendation
and memorandum
Facilitator trainings
and open online course
(MOOC in 2020)
More than 100 success
stories of young social
innovators

15. II. FIRST EUROPEAN
PILOT EXPERIENCES

16. DOIT‘s evaluation approach
We develop and evaluate
„DOIT actions“
A DOIT action addresses children from 6-16
years, builds upon the DOIT programme
and is at least 15 hours long
Diverse settings:
• Span of action from 2,5 days to 4 months
• 6-10, 11-16 years
• in schools, outside schools
• in fablabs and mobile makerspaces
• Diverse topics (UN SDG)
• urban/rural etc.
10 countries and 1.000 children
AT, BE, DE, DK, ES, FI, HR, NL, SI, SR
Skills of children
Self-efficacy, creativy, teamwork and others

17. Process and result example: A personal fan
Belgium pilot – in school – 10-11 years
The children created a solution for hot summers in classroom

18. Process and result example: The safe stage
Austria pilot –in school – 25 children – 5-10 years
The children decided to address accident prevention in their school
Social detective: The stage as problem! Idea sketch Prototype (already partly realised)

19. Result example: Sensor-based
laundry room dehydrator
Austria
8-11 years olds

20. First experiences …. self-efficacy
Facilitators observed how proud
children were of what they were
able to do, when they presented
their prototypes during the final
event to the invited people.
Source: DOIT partner ZSI

21. First experiences …. teamwork
“They all learnt to collaborate
with children of different
ages - from 6 to 11 years,
which is quite an age
difference” (FI)
Source: DOIT partner ZSI

22. III. FIRST POLICY
RECOMMENDATIONS
Please provide us your feedback
in the roundtable discussion!

23. III. DOIT‘S first EC Policy Brief

24. Recommendation1
Raise awareness of the
potential of makerspaces as
learning environments for
practice-based development
of digital, social and
entrepreneurial skilled young
people.

25. Recommendation2
Expand the number of pilot
makerspaces (infrastructure)
in schools and increase the
number of social
entrepreneurial programmes
in makerspaces.

26. Recommendation3
Promote maker education
with a focus on social and
entrepreneurial mind-sets
and skills.

27. Recommendation4
Support collaboration of teacher
trainings with local maker
communities and vice versa.

28. Sharing is caring!
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29. III. FIRST POLICY
RECOMMENDATIONS
Please provide us your feedback
in the roundtable discussion!

30. Contact
Dr. Sandra Schön (co-ordinator)
Sandra.schoen@salzburgresearch.at
Dr. Veronika Hornung-Prähauser (Lead Innovation Lab at Salzburg Research)
Veronika.hornung@salzburgresearch.at

31. This project has received funding from
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 77006

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