Wikipedia Primary School/Partners

Partnerships with institutions working in education are established within the frame of Wikipedia Primary School SSAJRP programme. They are meant to contribute to Wikipedia Primary School start-up between 2014 and 2017 in the frame of the specific project Wikipedia Primary School SSAJRP programme. The partners contribute to Wikipedia Primary School beyond 2014-2017 but they have no control over the project and other people and institutions can promote Wikipedia Primary School without their involvement.

Partnerships with institutions working in education are established in order to strengthen the capacity of the education ecosystem to contribute to Wikipedia, and in general to open collaborative knowledge. More specifically the partnerships contribute to the project communication; they allow to invite a series of partners to implement to the project in particular in schools. Partners can promote the project by themselves and contribute to it with their content and knowledge. The establishment of partnerships is also the first step to collaborate with institutions and people who can verify and evaluate the use of Wikipedia as a source of information for primary education.
The partnerships with institutions working in education aim at:

1. Acknowledging the role and importance of institutions already working in the field of Open Educational Resources.
2. Using already existing Open Educational Resources to contribute to the project.
3. Fostering the use of open licenses on educational resources among institutions working in education.
4. Establishing the condition to support institutions and people who can autonomously promote, develop and adapt the project to different territories.

Partners are invited to join the project through digital communication tools (websites, news, mailing lists, e-mails) and by providing them with printed documentation.

Within the frame of the Wikipedia Primary School SSAJRP programme partnerships are established by the team members according to those criteria:

• Expertise (stakeholders). Making sure we rely on existing work and we address specific issues by involving the right people and networks.
• Content. Allowing the project to use existing content (in particular content related to education and relevant for the project goals).
• Network. Enhancing the project communication, its fall-outs and scalability.
• Geographic diversity. Making sure we involve a geographically diverse network (for expertise, communication, scalability).