Do you need a guide to create your international mobility project, while coordinating on its writing together with your partners?

S.A.L.T.O. Youth provides the QualityMobility.app, a tool to use on your mobiles to create your own project and apply for funding, with 16 easy questions and tons of resources.

QualityMobility.app

The QualityMobility.app is a mobile application developed by JINT/SALTO with the goal of serving associations and organisers as a guide to write European mobility projects.

Within the app you can write a project in collaboration with partners, assess its quality following the EPLM principles for learning mobility, and download it in view of a funding application.

The App features insights by project organisers with experience in the field, as well as a dynamic library where you can add ever-changing tips, references, and resources. The application is multilingual and accessible from any device (PC, smartphone, tablet).

How to create a project on QualityMobility.app

Here are a few step to follow:

1. Click on “Create Q!” in QualityMobility.app, give a name to your Q! and specify what kind of project it is (exchange, volunteering, seminar…);
2. Invite your partner organisations on Q! and write your mobility project with them by answering 16 simple questions;
3. If you run out of ideas click on the light bulb icon and access over 200 useful resources for your project (tips, checklists, videos…);

You can also rate the quality of your project:

1. Click on “Rate Q!” in QualityMobility.app and think about any mobility project you’ve organised in the past;
2. Rate the project according to the 20 Quality Principles for Learning Mobility;
3. Click “submit” to see the results and get helpful resources to make your next mobility projects flawless;
4. Send your partners to rate the same project and compare your ratings on “Q! Evaluations.”

Access the MobilityQuality.app.

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For this reason, Open Space Foundation, an organisation based in Bulgaria supporting youth initiatives, has released a book on short-term volunteering as a door for development. The aim is sharing good practices on the basis of their gathered experience over the last eight years.

The purpose of the book, called “Short-term volunteering as a door for development“, is to give useful information. The target is any organisation that wants to know more about what dealing with international volunteers means. In fact there are not-written challenges they may face, in terms of reputation and also on the human side. It focuses also on how to get prepared and to be able to make the best out of the program’s provisional accomplishments. The beneficial effect of hosting international volunteers is indeed achievable but it does not have to be taken for granted.

It is important to point out that the book covers several and detailed topics. They concern both Short-term and Long-term projects, including:

• The accreditation process step by step (now called Quality Check)
• The further steps in terms of partnerships, applications and selection process;
• Any aspect concerning the preparation of hosting volunteers (the agreement, the infopack, living basics);
• What must be considered upon arrival, the scheduling, the mentor;
• How to boost motivation;
• What comes next: the effects on the organisation after the conclusion of the projects.

The book is available both in English and Bulgarian and it is free to download.

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The #ErasmusDays are three days of events to celebrate the Erasmus+ Programme, discover more the worlds of international mobility and promote European citizenship.

On one side exhibitions, concerts, contests, seminars, partner networking, open days, distribution of Europass Mobility documents, digital events… On the other side, they provide an important platform to share about your personal experience within Erasmus. Many countries are organizing a multitude of actions for the #Erasmusdays. So, what will be your action?

How can I partecipate?

There are a lot of possible ways to take part in the #ErasmusDays!

For example, you have the possibility to:

The #ErasmusDays are a bottom-up event – their success is based on the collaboration and participation of us all! Don’t miss this opportunity to be actively part of the Erasmus community!

For the Official Website click here.
For more info, have a look at the FAQ.

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Responding to the impact of COVID-19 on International Youth Work Mobility
the IYWTG calls all the trainers, training organizations and supporters
to sign the petition!

The petition is a call for continued support of international youth work training, as well as recognition of online learning as a valid form of youth work training, while not as a replacement of residential, face-to-face work.

International Youth Work Trainers Guild (IYWTG) is an Independent supportive community of experts in the youth work sector that advocates on behalf of and contributes to each other’s professional development.

The youth work training field, like many other sectors, is feeling the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. The safety restrictions, in particular the physical meeting restrictions, have a direct impact on the international youth work training field. In the face of the restrain of face-to-face contact carrying out different activities is extremely difficult.

The IYWTG, on behalf of its members, professionals in the youth work training field, and youth work organisations, calls on stakeholders in the European youth work and training to more concretely restructure training and support services for the international youth work. The restructuring  and proposed changes include for example:
– recognizing online training and support services as beneficial and valid formats for learners personal growth and youth workers professional development; 
– including and more openly supporting online and blended learning, virtual exchanges, and digital tools and platforms, in order to continue the efforts of international youth work and international youth work training in positively impacting the lives of young people across Europe;
– continuing to contract trainers and training organisations to design, deliver and evaluate international youth work training activities using opportunities of online technology.

Click HERE to sign and find the full text of the petition.

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