The INITIATION project aims to cultivate the social innovation and social entrepreneurship mind-set of high schools and their motivation to become more community oriented and be actively involved in designing solutions for environmental problems that their local societies are facing. Thus, high school students and teachers are the main beneficiaries of the project.

We jokingly call them “geeks”, sometimes “nerds”. In the popular “Big Bang Theory” TV show they are portraited as super-smart scientists who possess technical and scientific knowledge and skills to ride the digital and technological revolution, but lack social and communication skills to transfer their knowledge. In real life, these professionals, working in education, or in innovation hubs such as FabLabs, are a great knowledge asset to capitalize if we want to increase the number and variety of learners to become aware, acquainted and proficient in STEM and digital skills, as key skills for future occupations but more generally social and life purposes.

IDEA project is a two-year Erasmus+ project, running from October 2019 to September 2021, aimed to address underachievement in the basic skills of maths, covering maths material of the first 3 grades of primary school. The project will be based on cartoon 3D environments representing selected cultural routes, one in each participating country. In these environments, with the help of different math puzzles the students will be able to interact with the 3D objects solving these puzzles and getting points, rewards and badges.