“Obstacles to cocreation... are firstly institutional and political, aren’t they? Do we really let people engage in decisions for their own well-being? This is a rich topic to discuss the day after the European elections!”
Linda, a school nurse, was bringing to light the core of the discussions during the workshop on the CUbe tool.

Democratic processes were one of the various topics which were discussed during the 3 day dissemination workshop for the Co-Creating Welfare Project on May 27-28-29th. The French team in Saint-Etienne offered a choice of 5 different workshops to over fifty professionals: school nurses, social workers, teachers and other stakeholders in the education and welfare sectors. Stakeholders and professionals were able to meet, exchange, discuss and discover co-creation in a friendly atmosphere, focusing on children and school settings. They were able to experiment some tools, such as the Cube, to discuss motivations and obstacles to co-creation, the Q-Sort to reflect on modes of collaboration, or the Story Cubes to think about how to integrate co-creation in project evaluation. They were also shown how to bring out representations through E-Photo Expression, and the subject of democratic education was introduced.

Andrés, a maths teacher who participated to the third day of “the Co-creation Workshops” stated: “It was really enjoyable to discuss with people who come from various professional sectors. I was surprised by the innovative (and funny) way to make people get to know each other with the “Human Bingo” - a different approach, which is the basis of cocreation, I think. I had the opportunity to learn more about how to use cocreation by discovering some interesting tools I’ll be able to use in my daily work.”

If you're keen to learn more about those tools and the Training Course proposed within the Co-Creating Welfare Project, you can get more information on the website.