SZKOLENIE: QUALITY IN ACTION, LITWA

Termin: 5-12 września
Miejsce: Kursenai, Litwa
Język roboczy: angielski
Kontakt: Piotrek Dobrosz, piotrek.dobrosz@unescocentre.pl

Dodatkowe informacje (w j. angielskim):

Context of the project
We (Kūrybinės Raiškos Centras) already collected quite rich experience in youth work and youth projects. However, these experiences remain often within the youth group or organisation. We do care of quality in projects and youth work, and we know our partners care too!
We would like to explore the best of our and partners’ practices of Youth exchanges, Youth Initiative or Youth democracy projects within Youth in Action programme by identifying core factors for ensuring quality of projects. Furthermore we would like to learn from each other how to make it better in the future for the sake of reaching objectives of the projects and the youth work in general.
We would like to share the outcomes of the training course with wider European community,
involved in youth work and non-formal learning by creating video(s) and educational report. We believe it will help ensuring quality of what we and our colleagues do in European youth work.

Overall objective:
• To ensure implementation of high quality of Action 1 (Youth for Europe) projects in the future within and outside the established partnership in Europe.

Specific Objectives:
1. To reach common understanding of quality demands for Action 1 projects: 1.1 Youth exchanges, 1.2 Youth initiatives and 1.3 Youth democracy projects. (Understanding of Quality)
2. To identify and exchange the greatest experiences and core success factors of ensuring high quality in formerly implemented Action 1 projects. (Best experiences)
3. To identify the extent to which a quality in projects helped to achieve its’ objectives and contributed to the quality and longer-term impact of youth work within the participating organisations. (meaningfulness of Quality)
4. To enable participants to create visions and strategies of implementing perfect qualitative youth exchanges/youth initiatives/youth democracy projects. (Visions and strategies for Quality)
5. To disseminate outcomes of the training course by:
a) inviting other organisations and groups to the open “Quality in Action Fair” during the training course
b) creating educational report and educational video about ensuring quality in Action 1 projects;
c) spreading these products to youth organisations, trainers, NA’s, SALTO RC’s for the use in their educational or information activities. (Dissemination)
6. To exploit the results by using the created products in activities (workshops, seminars, trainings, counselling, etc.) of organisations, participating in this project. (Exploitation of results)

Methodology
The methodology of the training course is based on several approaches, focusing on positive thinking, creativity, participants-led open and structured discussions, etc. The course will be a journey through identifying our successful and qualitative experiences from Youth in Action (Action 1), exploring meanings of quality aspects, identifying core success factors for reaching quality, creating visions and means for integrating quality aspects in the youth project. The idea is to share our insights, lessons and experiences to the broader world and that’s why we foreseen open fair afternoon as well as dissemination products like video and report on ensuring quality in youth exchanges, youth initiative and youth democracy projects.

Draft list of activities:
1. Preparatory meeting of trainers and organisers
2. Training course – 6 full working days. 24 participants from 6-8 partners:
a) getting to know participants and organisations;
b) identifying the best successful experiences from Action 1 projects;
c) exploring the meaning and of quality demands in project;
d) identifying core factors for ensuring quality aspects in Action 1 projects;
e) sharing best practices with other local organisations during open Quality in Action Fair;
f) exploring impact of quality on reaching objectives of projects and youth work, implemented by participating organisation
g) creating visions of ideal high quality projects;
h) developing strategies and practical approaches for ensuring quality aspect like: active participation of young people, equal partnership, non-formal learning and intercultural learning, involvement of communities, European dimension, etc.
i) evaluating the course
3. Creation of dissemination products: educational report and educational video. It will be created by the dissemination team specially formed for this project.
4. Dissemination and exploitation activities: uploading created products on various virtual spaces, sending it to various organisations and institutions