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The aim of the training is to help you easily write your first Erasmus+ Youth KA1 project and submit it for European funding, with the supervision of experts that guide you in the process.

Erasmus Plus Youth Project Writing Challenge

The challenge itself consists of:

• Daily videos: a short daily explanation video in the Erasmus+ Youth Academy Facebook community at 18.00 CET from 1st to 14th February 2022;
• Home tasks: every day, after each video, you will receive a small home task. You need around 30 minutes to complete it, and at the end of the challenge, you have a fully developed project idea ready for submission upon the next deadline;
• Supportive community: no need to do it alone. In the Erasmus+ Youth Academy you complete the challenge day-by-day with other participants (or your own team), as well as share your successes and ask questions to challenge facilitators;
• Mentorship session and feedback: complimentary mentorship sessions will be available to get feedback on project applications.

The Schedule

Day 0 | Motivation and preparation: Why do you want to carry out KA1 mobility? Organisation registration and OID. Drafting PIF both for your project and future partners.

Day 1 | Intro into Erasmus+ Youth KA1: Principles and priorities of Erasmus+ (2021-2027).
Project formats. Difference between youth exchanges and professional development activities. Tips on how to read the Guide.

Day 2 | Finding the problem: How to find the problem and check its relevance to Erasmus+. Reasoning your choice in the application form. Statistics and European Strategy.

Day 3 | Needs’ analysis: Define the target audience of your project – future participants. What are their needs, fears and desires? Ways to conduct needs’ analysis.

Day 4 | Project concept development: Project development tool – Circle of creativity. Making a reality check and defining the vision, goal (6W) and objectives of your project. Relation to Erasmus+ and European Strategy.

Day 5 | Participants’ profile: What’s the profile of your participants? (their background, age, life experiences, needs and issues, do they face fewer opportunities). How will they be included in the project? Participation ladder of Roger Hart.

Day 6 | Team and Partners: Who is in your team and what are their strong sides? How to search for partners? First email and basic project info. Partners’ agreements based on the project lifecycle and means of communication.

Day 7 | Practical arrangements: Logistics & practicalities: whose responsibility is this? Timeline of project preparation, implementation and follow-up. Common mistakes.

Day 8 | Preparation of participants and learning outcomes: Different types of preparation. Special preparation of participants with fewer opportunities. Introduction to Youthpass and key competencies.

Day 9 | Activity program: Intro into informal and non-formal learning methods. How to develop a well-balanced program? Tips&Tricks on designing activity program.

Day 10 | Project outcomes and their dissemination: Tangible and intangible results. Examples of good dissemination strategies. Dissemination of the outcomes and project visibility tips.

Day 11 | Expected impact: Impact on direct and indirect beneficiaries, as well as local, national and European levels. Ways to measure impact. Checking coherence with Erasmus+ KA1 expected impact.

Day 12 | Project monitoring and evaluation: Risk assessment: what can go wrong in the project and ways to predict and prevent risks. Developing a project monitoring plan. Designing criteria of project success.

Day 13 | Final project check-up: How to quickly check project coherence and clarity. Common mistakes.
Checklist based on project assessment criteria.

Day 14 | Application form: How to fill in the electronic form: sections and questions. Budget and annexes. Checking all formal criteria and documents before submission.

See full details and apply from S.A.L.T.O. Youth.

Additional Information

The Writing Challenge is open up to 200 participants (ideally Youth Project Managers) from Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme countries, other countries in the world, Partner Countries, Neighbouring the EU.

The coordinators are Life Zone Group and Synergy Bulgaria.

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• Italy (Stranaidea)
• Netherlands (Yes! Youth Exchange Service)
• Hungary (Galileo)
• Latvia (Jaunpils)

It started back in July 2019, with the very first event as a Transnational Training Course in Turin, Italy. During such event, teachers and youth workers from partner organisations experienced the Fairy Tales Life Storytelling Cards Method themselves. They learned and discovered how to implement the method in the 1st round of national workshops with school students, that took place later on in December.

Purpose of the project

The intent of this Strategic Partnership is to build an inclusive approach to formal and non-formal education on the basis of storytelling, through a specific practice, the “Fairy Tale Life cards”.

Methodology

The method includes the use of a deck of cards to create stories, under the inspiration of Vladimir Jakovlevič Propp’s cards and studies, about the identification of structures and elements recurring in the stories and tales, where diversity and different types of disadvantages are a factor belonging to the characters.

The Fairy Tales Life Storytelling Cards is a method that young people can use, with their own imagination, life experiences and empathic skills in order to work on Social Inclusion. The basis is an empty deck of cards and some supporting activities, but anyone is free to use only a part of it, the whole method or just to adapt it according to the needs of their target group.

Each time a group plays, they create a new and customized deck of cards. The group itself creates all the cards and actually draws them. Each deck of cards is a new adventure, with different settings, themes and characters. The creation of the deck of cards is the real challenge and the core of the method.

Project’s Results

The outputs of the project are meant to be disseminated to teachers and young people, who want to experiment social inclusion through this new, innovative way.

The results and outputs are downloadable.

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The partners of the project are:

• Citizens in Action
• Xarxa CooperaSec
• STRANAIDEA
• Kaleido’Scop
• Nexes
• Confcooperative Piemonte Nord
• Unis-Cité

The Project

The overall objective of the project is to visualize the social impact of entrepreneurship initiatives in SSE, especially those ones promoted by young people.

According to that, SSEds wants to:

• reinforce methodologies to accompany young people in entrepreneurship in SSE, especially those with fewer opportunities;
• strengthen the competences and visions in SSE so that young people can undertake initiatives in their communities;
• elaborate new tools for SSE, fruit of a collective creation;
• create instruments for the evaluation of the social impact of SSE initiatives.

Over its duration, from January 2020 to December 2021, the partners of SSEds have elaborated 2 intellectual outputs:

• a “Toolbox on values, sustainability and social impact of the ESS“
• a “Training Module to approach young people to the ESS“, with focus on the social impact of the ESS

Toolbox on Values, Sustainability and Social Impact of the ESS

The “Toolbox on values, sustainability and social impact of the Social and Solidarity Economy” intends to provide SSE actors, who guide and educate (mostly) in sustainable and value-based SSE activities, a user-friendly system of classified SSE tools/methods. These tools/methods should be useful, at different stages and with different purposes and target groups, to guide young people towards their entrepreneurship in SSE.

Part of the Toolbox, the Imp’Act tool guides the user through building their own social impact assessment of an SSE project or initiative. It grounds on the values and principles of SSE, but it is applicable to all kinds of social projects and initiatives, also outside the SSE field.

Training Module to Approach Young People to the ESS

This training module provides concrete educational approaches to focus on social impact, for young people who are in the process of creating an SSE project. Overall, it aims at maximizing the potential for social transformation of future SSE initiatives.

“On a train to social impact” grounds on the principles of non-formal education and is a resource for facilitators that support young people in their educational path towards Social Solidarity Economy.

Outputs’ Objectives

Such outputs have been created for the benefit of young people and the actors of social and solidarity economy who want to deepen their knowledge over the topic and to train themselves on the social impact.

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