4° Meeting Luxemburg

Date: 02-06 November 2017
Language: English
Participants: European partners of NEST project
Responsible: Christiane Stein
Trainers: Marco Provenzale
Organizer: Amu Luxemburg
Sponsored: Erasmus+ Programme

Meeting Argoments:

INTRODUCTION TO EU PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Ice-breaking activity: sharing of the expectations of the participants

  • EU funding: policies – EU priority and 2020 strategy frame work
  • Find a topic on which to work to develop project proposals
  • Programs identified as areas of interest of the participating organizations: ERASMUS + (exchanges, educators mobility, capacity building, EVS, SPORT), Europe for citizens, REC Rights Equality and Citizenship (Intercultural Dialogue – Anti-Racism – Inter-religious Dialogue, minors, migrants).
  • For each project are briefly exposed: Reference agencies, goals, sites where to find the calls, an example of a form, an example of a project, recently selected project lists, compilation guidelines.

Work groups (3 groups are formed)

  • 1 (WHY, WHO?): association presentation (CV), analysis of needs, objectives, identification of potential stakeholders and their interest / contribution in the partnership
  • Plenary sharing and comments

BASIC ASPECTS FOR THE EU PROJECT MANAGEMENT

  • Access Criteria (portal inscription, PIC code and validation, legal / administrative aspects).
  • Summary of the project cycle, already discussed in previous sessions: focus on indicators, methodology, monitoring.
  • Strengths and weaknesses of the network with respect to the project management, through the presentation of external evaluations of some funded projects and others excluded
  • Comments and dialogue between the participants.
  • Working groups: work methodology, indicators, timeline, evaluation (how, when?) (1 h)
  • Plenary sharing and comments

 

PARTNERSHIPS AND MANAGEMENT

MORNING:

  • Approach and procedures with respect to the project management: Presentation of the preliminary project form shared among the partners as a working method of the network.
  • Working groups: to share the internal management of the project by identifying tasks / roles and distributing them among the different partners
  • Plenary and sharing: examples of European projects management will be presented.

AFTERNOON:

  • Sustainability of the projects: examples
  • SWOT analysis (weaknesses – risks – opportunities) and economic sustainability of the project(1 h)
  • Plenary sharing and comments

 

SPECIFIC SESSION DEDICATED TO SVE, EUROPEAN VOLUNTEER SERVICE

MORNING:

  • introduction to international volunteering
  • EVS charter and distinction between coordinating – sending – receiving organization
  • EVS accreditation guidelines
  • Dialogue: Questions and answers.

Pomeriggio:

  • Working groups: identification of training paths for the volunteer, modalities of accompaniment, post-experience.
  • Plenary and sharing

 

FUTURE PROSPECTS OF THE NETWORK

MORNING:

  • Evaluation of the training program
  • Identification of a shared work plan for 2018 (deadlines)
  • Presentation of the NEST platform