The following objectives have been proposed: Objective 1: To exchange good practices on citizen participation and inclusion through co-creation as a process, in order to explore how we can encourage active participation, facilitate civic education and promote civic engagement. Objective 2: To create training events for educators and learners in different fields of education (formal, non-formal, adult, civic education) in order to experiment with the collected best practices and to test their performance in different (international) contexts. Objective 3: To publish and disseminate an online methodology (e-publication) that brings co-creation into the educational environment. Objective 4: To organise two public events in different European countries to bring our methodology to communities with fewer opportunities.
Koopkultur and its partner organisations applied for the MAXICO project as a result of the common need for an accessible methodology in community mapping practice, the need for clear guidelines for participation in the education sector with the help of community mapping, and to explore the possibility of creating a social feedback mechanism between and among citizens on the one hand and educators, (spatial) planners and scientists on the other.