Ubatuba is a municipality sitting exactly where the eastern coast of Brazil is crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn. The city has a high record of nature conservation - 86% of its territory is composed of atlantic forest, one of the biggest biodiversities in the world. Despite attracting a number of people sensible to that context, though, the political imaginary of the city often regards preservation as an obstacle to development.

Prisma has the long-term goal of stressing the relevance of socio-environmental innovation by building local capacity, retaining and attracting talents and creating critical mass for sustainable alternatives to local development.

The first iteration of Prisma (called CISA), developed between July and December 2017, will be a hybrid course composed of three basic modules:

• How to learn what we need;
• Basic project language;
• Modes of organisation and work.

The first phase will be shaping the syllabus and either producing or selecting relevant contents for these three modules, in brazilian portuguese. All the content produced, as well as selections of playlists of available third-party materials, will be published under a CC-BY-SA license.

The course will be offered for free to a small test group, possibly six students coming from a partner project on social engagement in local communities. Other possilities for test groups are students or former students from the two technical high schools in Ubatuba, or else selected members of the collaborative incubator inc.ubalab.

The courses will simultaneously offer access to online content and discussions, and hold periodic face-to-face meetings with the test group, from august to november. Meanwhile, students will develop their own project(s) of socio-environmental innovation. They will create and document complementary learning paths relevant to their projects, and publish these paths also under a CC-BY-SA license. Depending on other funding sources of Prisma, they will also be hired to transform these learning paths into new course modules. Some examples of possible new modules: permaculture, design thinking, circular economy, fundraising, web and digital media, event production, project management, free/open hardware, prototyping, graphic design (among many others).

The expected results of the first iteration of Prisma are:

• a selection of online content already available on the themes of the three basic modules;
• a selection of online content produced by Prisma on the same themes, from a perspective of socio-environmental innovation;
• a small group of students trained on socio-environmental innovation, with their own project(s) started, and findings publicly documented;
• improved visibility for socio-environmental innovation within the local society and communities;
• improved national and international visibility for Ubatuba as a testbed of socio-environmental innovation.

The central outcome expected of Prisma is to ensure that people with good ideas for socio-economic development are given the instruments and methodologies to put those ideas into practice in an open and sustainable way.

The syllabus for the basic modules will be published under open licenses. The idea is then to ask the opinion of advisors such as professors Nelson Pretto (UFBA, Bahia), Sarita Albagli (IBICT, Rio de Janeiro) and Antonio Lafuente (CSIC, Spain); as well as the opinion of activists and researchers working with digital culture, sustainability and circular economy, appropriate technologies and other relevant areas. The commented syllabus will be published online as well, becoming very important material for future similar projects.

The perspective and opinion of students about course contents will be treated as another source of insight, as well as the concrete impacts and eventual obstacles of their own projects during Prisma.

Lastly, the acceptance and dissemination of online materials created for Prisma will offer important indicators. This is a pioneer project, at least in portuguese language. We expect to reach a good amount of visibility with it.

The first iteration of Prisma will benefit directly the small test group of about 6 or so students. It will also have indirect impact as the students choose their own projects to be developed along these six months. As the focus is on socio-environmental projects, there shall be positive impact.

Ubatuba has an abundant nature (with the highest proportion of preserved territory in the State of São Paulo), a diverse population and centuries of history. Its mentions in scientific publications are remarkable when compared to the region.

On the other hand, there are pressing challenges. Unlike similar localities, Ubatuba can not industrialize in the traditional way, due exactly to the predominance of its preserved areas. In the imaginary of most of its political and higher economic classes, preservation equals underdevelopment.

Building alternative paths for sustainable inclusive development is urgent, but the absence of a proper university makes it even harder

The biggest challenge we might face would be if talented young people, inventors and innovators from Ubatuba don't get interested in what Prisma has to offer. Becoming part of an international network of like-minded project is already a way to overcome the prejudice people often have against local initiatives. Prisma envisions a number of local partners that will not only help making the project known by potential participants, but also point to particularly talented individuals, creative projects or specific demands that could benefit from Prisma.

Prisma is one of the outcomes of Ciência Aberta Ubatuba a two-year research project on open science in Ubatuba, member of the OCSD network, coordinated by IBICT and funded by IDRC. I was responsible for the local activities of Ciência Aberta Ubatuba: mapping the institutions, researchers, activists and other actors involved with the production and circulation of knowledge, organising events putting them together with other social contexts from Ubatuba, Brazil and abroad. This experience made me sure of some assumptions I already have. In particular, the size of the gap created by the lack of any Universities here. The long-term plan to Prisma is to fill that gap by retaining and attracting talents as well as investments into socio-environmental innovation. Ciência Aberta Ubatuba was presented in the 4S/EASST conference in Barcelona 2016, as well as ESOCITE Curitiba 2016. Our experience will be shared as a chapter in an upcoming book on open science organised by OCSDNet.

I had also a number of other experiences in between arts, science, technology and society during the last 15 years: creating and producing four editions of the Tropixel international festival since 2013; teaching at a public technical school in Ubatuba; working for two years with identity and PR for two communities of traditional cultures in Ubatuba (a tribe of native brazilians and a quilombo, remaining settlement of former slaves); researching labs of experimental digital culture for the brazilian Ministry of Culture, the Spanish Agency of Cooperation AECID, and after that my MA at Unicamp University of Campinas; developing and implementing a digital culture based exclusively in free/open software and contents for the huge network of Pontos de Cultura in Brazil; creating and coordinating the MetaReciclagem and Bricolabs networks.

Prisma is conceived as a project of open education. It will make use of available open educational resources when possible, and always use open licensing (CC-BY-SA) for its own content - from playlists and lists of selected materials to multimedia content produced for the modules.

The students will be asked to document their learning, findings and experiments online under open licenses.

Prisma is being built with a sense of resilience. The recent years in Brazil have reminded us never to trust a single funding source, as budget cuts have hit culture and science even harder than other areas. The mid-term plan is to structure Prisma as a social business that generates revenue in many ways (seling certified courses, offering face-to-face immersions, in-house training and so on) and reinvests all the profit into itself. To reach that point, it will need to rely for now in a series of funding sources - donations, paid writing and speaking, establishing partnerships with organisations, possibly crowdfunding and other strategies.