TRIC – Towards resilient and innovative communities – Turning uncertainty into positive assets

Creating ways to make uncertainty productive together

Duration of the project

1.3.2024 – 28.2.2027

Source of funding

Erasmus+ Alliances for Innovation

Total funding

1 807 000 €

The TRIC project develops uncertainty competence, empowering individuals and communities to turn uncertainty into opportunities for growth and innovation. We support teachers, trainers, and young adults in facing the challenges of a rapidly changing world together. The project creates new pedagogical and digital solutions and strengthens collaboration across sectors. Our goal is to build inclusive, resilient, and innovative communities throughout Europe.

The TRIC project aims to develop uncertainty competence, enabling individuals to turn unpredictable situations into opportunities for growth and innovation. This approach goes beyond resilience by fostering positive change and creativity, collaborative problem-solving, and proactive engagement with uncertainty.

Uncertainty competence emphasizes the ability to navigate and manage unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous situations effectively. Professionals with uncertainty competence exercise agency, are powerful and productive, and view uncertainty as a rich source of opportunities. It is a prerequisite for developing the ability to deal with open-ended problems in the future.

The TRIC project identifies necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes, and strategies, and developing innovative, multidisciplinary learning methods to boost the uncertainty competence. It supports teachers (VET, HEIs) and trainers (workplaces, NGOs) to enhance their own and their learners’ uncertainty competence. It facilitates collaboration between young adults, educational institutions, research organizations, the public sector, and businesses to support and learn from each other, and to promote social responsibility and community learning.

Additionally, it develops a digital application to enable innovative and collaborative daily support for learners, teachers, trainers, and organizations, by making knowledge, methods, tools, and materials available to everyone and connecting the actors of communities regardless of time and place.

This three-year project promotes teaching innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and digital learning. The TRIC project brings together a consortium of change makers from five European countries. The 11 member institutions of the consortium are united by their innovativeness, non-traditional solutions, and have different focuses, which allows a comprehensive outlook on the social sphere of young adults.