NIILS - New Approaches for Inclusive Informal Learning Spaces

The European Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 aims to foster a high-performing digital education ecosystem and enhance digital skills. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of digi...

The NIILS project targeted the following objectives: 1) Provide comprehensible information regarding the context situation and users’ perspectives related to inclusive and supportive informal learning spaces in higher education institutions in different European countries and regions, 2) Analyse and categorize digitally supported informal learning spaces for lifelong learning processes 3) Identify structural, contextual and individual barriers related to informal learning spaces for different student groups, depending on their socio-economic status, gender, age, disabilities and geographical location, as well as approaches and strategies for mitigation and empowerment 4) Create awareness among target groups and stakeholders and provide tools, methodological frameworks and practical guidance materials to promote inclusive and supportive technologically enhanced informal and non-conventional learning environments 5) Establish networks and enable knowledge transfer between participating institutions, involved target groups and stakeholders, to start a transdisciplinary and co-creative process and to build a foundation for further development and innovation regarding technologically enhanced inclusive informal learning spaces.