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Guidebook: Living Solidarity Alliance In Practice

Editorial Staff — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:59:15 +0000

The Guidebook “Living Solidarity Alliance in Practice” is one of the project results of Living Solidarity Alliance – a project financed by the EU Erasmus+ Programme under the framework of Strategic Partnership.

The Project: Living Solidarity Alliance

The general aim is to increase the ability to work more effectively, with a focus on solidarity, with young people, and to find new inspiration on how solidarity can be more present in our society.

Referring to the recent developments on the youth policy level in Europe and the challenging situation of young people in Europe (Covid19, unemployment, rising of populism, climate crisis), the partners of the project want to contribute as NGOs to the development of a strategic and systematic support structure to empower young people to participate in activities with a solidarity focus.

The Guidebook

The Guidebook “Living Solidarity Alliance In Practice” sets out methods for inclusion, participation and community building.

“How can solidarity become more present in our activities? What can we do to develop a sense of solidarity in our communities through youth work? This manual practically implements the methods and approaches that we have developed or adapted while searching for a deeper understanding of these questions. We have collected expert knowledge of already existing methodologies and created new ways (often in cooperation with other local organisations) to share the methods bringing more solidarity into our everyday activities. Some of the essential values in life are human bonds and continuously learning about ourselves and the world around us. Through various methods, including shorter and longer interactive experiences, we encourage reflection on universal values and the role of different aspects of solidarity in our life.”

The 3 dimensions of solidarity – inclusion, participation and community building – may serve as orientation points for you and your organisation to find the methods that best respond to your needs at the moment.

The methods are presented similarly with some key points: the connection with solidarity; the aim and target group; step by step how it works and how the methodological work needs to be applied; materials and tools required; experience of participants or possible options.

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Living Solidarity Alliance Website
Facebook page
Contact: living.solidarity.alliance@gmail.com

Partners of the project:
Associazione di promozione sociale Joint
PANGEYA Ultima
Arte Ego
CABUWAZI
Tandem

Erasmus Plus Project: Quality Mobility App

Editorial Staff — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:03:00 +0000

How to give quality to your mobility Erasmus Plus project? Would you like to make sure that the European mobility project you developed meets the quality standards and is likely to get approval?

S.A.L.T.O. Youth meets your needs with the Quality Mobility App. A mobile-friendly tool that allows you to check on the quality of your mobility project according to the EPLM Quality Principles.

Quality Mobility App

The QualityMobility.app (Q! App) guides project managers to a great quality mobility project with 16 easy questions and tons of resources.

How To Create a Quality Mobility Project

Click Create Q! in the QualityMobility.app, give your Q! Project a name and select a type (exchange, volunteering, seminar,…)
Invite your Q! Partners to your project and collaboratively write your mobility project answering the 16 easy project questions
If you’re stuck for ideas, simply click the lightbulb to access 200+ Q! Resources for your project (tips, checklists, videos,…)
The project owner can lock the project questions for editing and export the answers for use in a funding application

How To Check On the Quality of Your Project

Click Rate Q! in the QualityMobility.app and think of any Mobility Project you organised before (exchange, volunteering, seminar,…)
Rate the project according to the 20 Quality Principles for Learning Mobility, or unfold the underlying indicators to rate them.
Click ‘submit’ to see the results and get Q! Resources to make your next Mobility Projects (even) better
Invite your Q! Partners to rate the same project and compare your Q! Ratings. A great discussion starter about Quality

The Quality Mobility app is a free online tool. It provides resources and ideas to refine your project. The app has a dynamic adaptive library, for suggestions, references and resources. The tool is available in multiple languages (English, Czech, Dutch), and soon it will be available also in French and German. Being an App, you can access it from any digital device, with sections also available when offline.

See further details about the Quality Mobility App. There are videos and tutorials to guide you through its use.

Erasmus+ Project Quality Assessment Guide

Editorial Staff — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 09:17:16 +0000

When putting together your ideas and writing down your project to submit for European funding, there comes the doubt on how to make your project likely to get funds. In other words, you need to know how the Erasmus projects get a quality assessment.

Thanks to the experience of the organisations already been working in the field for many years, it is not difficult to find tips and tricks on how to make your Erasmus project in line with the European priorities. We have examined the new Erasmus Plus Guide 2021-2027 to find out what’s new. Now it’s time to go a little bit further.

Erasmus+ Quality Assessment

The official assessment criteria used by the evaluators to assess your application form are not a riddle. You can easily find them into a Guide available online.

The document comes from the European Commission. Let’s have a look at it.

The Role of National Agencies

National Agencies assess proposals with the assistance of independent experts to ensure that only those of the highest quality are eligible for funding and that only organisations/consortia fulfilling specific criteria obtain an accreditation. Thus, the final decision on the selection or rejection of applications and on the granting of accreditations is by the National Agencies.

The Role of Experts

The assessment and selection of grant applications happens on the basis of a peer review system following a transparent process that guarantees impartiality and equal treatment of all applicants.

The assessment is an essential part in the selection procedure. On the basis of the experts’ assessment, they make a list of grant applications per action and per field ranked in quality order, which serves as a basis for the National Agency to take the grant award decision, following the proposal of the Evaluation Committee.

The Assessment

The European Commission establishes the standard quality assessment forms and uses them in all Programme Countries in order to ensure a coherent assessment of applications across Programme Countries.

Award Criteria

Each of the following award criteria comes from several elements which must be taken into account by experts when analysing an application. These elements form an exhaustive list of points to look at before giving a score for the given criterion.

Official source: Guide for experts on Quality Assessment

The table below shows the ranges of scores for the individual quality standards depending on the maximum score that can be awarded to the relevant award criterion.

Official source: Guide for experts on Quality Assessment

In order to pass the selection for funding under the Erasmus+ Programme, an application submission to a National Agency has to:

score at least 60 points in total, and
score at least half of the maximum points for each award criterion

General Principles of Erasmus Quality Assessment

The consolidated assessment is the final assessment of an application. It means that in case of applications for a grant, the consolidated assessment forms the basis for ranking the application on the list of eligible grant applications. While in
case of applications for accreditation, it determines if the applicant will receive the accreditation or not.

Proportionality: to ensure that the Erasmus+ Programme fully reaches its objectives, experts shall assess the qualitative level of the planned activities, goals, impact and results of the project in a proportional way, in relation to the size and profile of the applicant organisations.

Cost-efficiency: experts may judge that some of the units in an application form are not to be considered, even for projects deserving a high qualitative scoring. They may therefore propose a reduction of these units, which consequently will determine a reduction of the grant awarded by the NA.