final report seminar evs italy may 2015

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Seminar on how to improve the promotion of the EVS and EVS quality project implementation

Rome, 26 – 30 May, 2015

Final report

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PROGRAMME Tuesday 26th May Wednesday 27th

May Thursday 28th May Friday 29th May Saturday 30th May

7:30 / 8:45

Arrivals

Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast

Departures

9:00 / … - Energizer - Welcome and

program introduction from the Italian NA

- Erasmus+ in a nutshell

- World café: EVS and its features

- Energizer - Workshops: peer to

peer exchange of best practices

- Energizer - Activity: Youth

pass

Coffee break at 11:30 at 10:45 at 10:30 … / 13:00 Debriefing and

discussion Activity: Conflict management

Activity: Promotion of EVS projects

13:15 / 15:00 Lunch and free time Lunch and free time Lunch and free time 15:00 / 17:00 Erasmus+ news: quiz

and answers from the Italian NA

- Project evaluation: activities, Q&A, sharing

Activity: Promotion of EVS projects

17:00 / 17:30 Coffee break

Transfer to Roma city center:

walk and dinner out

Coffee break 17:30 / 19:00 Activity: Intercultural

learning Evaluation of the seminar

19:00 / 20:00 Welcome drink Free time Free time 20:00 / 21:00 dinner dinner Dinner 21:00 / 22:… Activities: ice

breaking games and expectations

Intercultural evening: presentation of participants’ organization and local treats

Goodbyes

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1. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The overall aim of the international seminar has been to understand the real value of the EVS experience in terms of personal development, skills and ability development, competences acquired and to involve more youngsters to choose EVS as a valid opportunity to develop skills useful in their transversal learning process (formal and non formal learning). The team and the national agency representatives agreed in saying that the general objectives have been met in relation to the understanding of the value of EVS and of the development of competences required for a good project implementation.

As some participants stated:

The seminar was very productive because I met experienced organisations with whom I hope to make partnership in the future

It was very useful because we shared good practices and concrete examples.

I learned a lot of new things, do I’m happy.

As for the promotion of the EVS the trainers team observed that this objective has been partly reached, as some participants commented that they had not the opportunity to deeply discussed new methods of promotion and sharing best practices.

I would have liked to have more focus on the promotion of EVS that was the main reason for my participation

I joined the seminar mostly because of the part about dissemination/promotion of EVS. I felt this part wasn’t deep enough during the seminar and it could have been better explored

For large majority of participants, the seminar was an opportunity to get more information. to understand how the programme works in practice and collect valuable good practices to apply back home.

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General evaluation of the whole seminar

Average Value

2. TARGET GROUP

The group included 28 participants coming from 21 countries (both programme and partner countries from SEE and EEC). The group was quite differentiated in terms of experience. We had some participants with a very good level of experience in EVS and some others completely newcomers. For some participants this gap in experience was a challenge and for some others an opportunity. In general, the mutual exchange of experiences was identified by the participants in their evaluation as one of the very strong points of the course and a big source for learning.

I’m very satisfied. I liked the cooperation between newcomers and experienced participants.

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The level of experience in EVS in the group was to different. We spent too much time on basic features that for me weren’t new. Maybe next time the seminar could focus on a more specific group of participants.

The big cultural diversity and participants from partner countries had a very good impact on the group dynamics and the integration among them.

The particular richness for the learning process was the fact of having 6 ex-EVS volunteers in the group. This has brought an added value in terms of “volunteer’s perspective” in the key reflections during the course.

In general, the participants were very resourceful and committed to active participation in the programme. There were only two participant whose English level was less than needed to follow the seminar fully, but they were assisted by other participants using other languages and non verbal communication!

The learning environment was just perfect to implement our seminar.

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The active participation in the seminar’s activities

(Self assessment)

Average Value

3. METHODOLOGY

The participants appreciated the diversity of the methodology and the participative approach. The overall seminar methodology was based on experiential learning, sharing of experiences and peer learning.

The trainers team provided a variety of methods and tools that allowed individual reflection, groups sharing, and learning by doing.

The activities proposed were therefore well balanced and participants appreciated them very much.

The activity on conflict management was very useful. It showed us that communication is so important; sometimes we forget about it.

The thematic workshops were very useful because they permitted me to exchange practices on useful topics.

I found the workshop on “Supporting the volunteer” the most useful one, because it is closed to my job (teacher). It provided tools and techniques to approach the role of trainer in the future.

As the graphic here below shows, the average of participants’ appreciation of activities is 4,32

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The activities for getting to know each other

The introduction to Erasmus+

The Word Cafe activity on EVS

The presentation of new tools for EVS and Erasmus+

The activity on intercultural learning

The international evening

Thematic workshops

The activity on conflict management

The activity on project evaluation

The activity on Youthpass and key competences

The activity on EVS promotion

Activities

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4. QUALITY OF THE COURSE ORGANISATION

The venue of the CampusX is in our opinion an ideal location for organizing non formal learning international activities. The rooms and equipments are of outstanding quality, as well as the food and the accommodation.

The logistic support provided by the Italian National Agency, as well as the material given for the seminar implementation allowed an efficient implementation of the programme.

The only remark concerns the WIFI connection that didn’t work properly, affecting the implementation of some activities.

The participants appreciated the support and preparation they got before the course, with the information package, and the practical guidance on how to reach the venue. Some participants remarked that the shuttle bus to reach the venue did not function very well.

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The information before arrival

The timing

The accommodation

The seminar’s rooms

Logistics

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5. TEAM

The team work was evaluated very positively: from the first contact during the preparation process till the end of the seminar the trainers and NA representatives developed a very smooth and fast working communication and mutual cooperation. Fabiana Di Carlo and Ada Corasaniti participated in most of the activities, supporting the programme implementation when needed, and acting as resource person for participants.

The trainers, Luisa Pagano, Annamaria Papini, Alessandro Zuottolo worked together for the first time and in spite of the various experience backgrounds they managed to collaborate in a very cooperative and smooth way. They complemented each other in terms of styles, expertise and perspectives on EVS. According to participants’ evaluations, the trainers were efficient, available, friendly, professional, positive, smiling, welcoming.

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The role of the trainer

Average Value

6. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

The seminar was very positive both from the team and participants perspective. However, for future activities we suggest to harmonise more the profile of participants. The big gap between experienced participants and newcomers did not allowed the trainers to deepen certain topics of interest for experienced participants.

A more homogeneous group of participants would allow the team to work toward more ambitious objectives providing space for learning and professional development.

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10. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

N. First name Last name Gender Country of Residence Email Organisation

1 Fabio Haxhiu Male Albania [email protected] ACT for SOCIETY Center

2 Marine Tunyan Female Armenia [email protected] KASA Swiss Humanitarian Foundation

3 ELDIN BULJUBASIC Male Bosnia and Herzegovina [email protected] NGO BH Youth

4 Ernad Deni Comaga Male Bosnia and Herzegovina [email protected] Democratic Youth Movement

5 Mia Peretić Female Croatia [email protected] Youth Inititative for Human Rights

Croatia

6 MBAYE MAME Male France [email protected] MJC JACQUES PREVERT

7 Lali Omiadze Female Georgia [email protected] Bridge of Friendship kartlosi

8 Sofia Antera Female Greece [email protected]

9 Valon Nushi Male Kosovo [email protected] PEN - Peer Educators NEtwork

10 Margarita Vasileva Female Macedonia, Former Yugoslav

Republic of [email protected]

Cultural Initiatives Development

Formation

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11 Daniel Said Male Malta [email protected] Emergency Response & Rescue Corps

12 Aleksandra (Zekovic)

Gligorovic Female Montenegro [email protected]

SOS telephone for women and

children victims of violence Podgorica

(SOS Podgorica)

13 Karolina Szatkiewicz Female Poland [email protected] Europejskie Forum Młodzieży

14 Diana Cerqueira Female Portugal [email protected]

Associação Social Recreativa

Juventude de Vila Fonche/Juventude

15 Bojan Golubovic Male Serbia [email protected] City of Nis Basketball Association

16 Ljiljana Jovicin Blagojevic Female Serbia [email protected] Technical school "Mileva Maric-

Einstein"

17 Joana Detoni Female Slovak Republic [email protected] Kulturne Centrum Aktivity

18 Nikola Repiska Female Slovak Republic [email protected] Mladiinfo Slovensko

19 Barbara Muraus Female Slovenia [email protected] Kulturno društvo Mladinski center

IndiJanez

20 Aurora Félez Female Spain [email protected] A.C.D Océano Atlántico

21 Marcos Garcia Male Spain [email protected] DESES-3

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22 Merve Hoşgör Female Turkey [email protected] Bodrum Dance Club Association

23 Cevriye Kübra

Burcu AVCI Female Turkey [email protected] Çanakkale Koza Gençlik Derneği

24 Tetiana Lebukhorska Female Ukraine [email protected]

Chernivtsi Regional NGO "Bukovinian

Agency for Regional Development"

25 Laura Sanesi Female Italy [email protected] Comune di Prato

26 Rachele Cinerari Female Italy [email protected] Associazione La Stazione

27 Francesco Marano Male Italy [email protected] Giovani per l'Europa Onlus

28 Sanda Bordei Female Romania [email protected] Colegiul Henri Coanda Bacau, Romania

Trainers

1 Annamaria Papini [email protected]

2 Alessandro Zuottolo [email protected]

3 Luisa Pagano [email protected]

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