Project Partners

PRISMA is an interdisciplinary planning and research consultancy founded in 1991 and has since built up a notable record of research, policy consulting, evaluation and education outcomes. PRISMA possesses extensive experience in lifelong learning research and action projects; local development; spatial/environmental planning; and the use of new technologies in learning and capacity building. PRISMA has undertaken several projects as an advisor to the Greek Government in policy-making for vocational education and training, regional planning, the introduction of new technologies in public administration, among other themes; and has also offered programme evaluation services, including the evaluation of operational programmes in Greece; and to the European Commission as a member of larger consortia. PRISMA’s experience combines lifelong learning, including IT-enhanced learning; actions and policy studies targeted to groups at risk of social exclusion, including the disabled, the poor, the unemployed, immigrants etc.; job creation and entrepreneurship development actions, including actions targeted at women’s cooperatives and micro-SMEs; integrated local development planning in rural and urban areas; public governance.

PRISMA has implemented a large number of transnational European projects, co-funded by the European Commission, in the field of lifelong learning, ecotourism, environmental conservation, cultural development and social inclusion, either as project coordinator or partner. Selected recent and past projects in the above fields include:

• INVOLEN: Intergenerational Learning for Nature Conservation Volunteers through the development of location-based games.
• WaterSTEAM: Landscape, water, and active citizenship: a nature-based STEAM teaching methodology
• DAYLIGHTING RIVERS: Science Education for Civic Ecology
• RAISE: Raising Environmental Awareness among Young People
• ASPIS: Auditing the Sustainability of Public Spaces, a learning methodology for schools, university students, and adults, based on the development of a serious game.
• ERURALNET: Network promoting e-learning for rural development-including the development of a serious game to familiarise adult students with e-learning.
• E-CLIC: Making European Policy Popular through Challenge, Learning, Innovation, Cooperation: An experiment on the Landscape Convention.