First project meeting in Slovakia

The aim of the meeting was to get to know the project partners and their representatives, to present the partners' experiences in the field of service-learning, to agree on the common rules within the project, the tasks of the individual partners, and the timetable of the project. The meeting also aimed to develop a common vision of project outputs and agree on their creation and basic structure and prepare the first draft of the IO1 output. The meeting followed the training of service trainers learning. At the beginning of the meeting, the participants clarified the expectations from the meeting and agreed on the program. The project coordinator then presented the main lines of the project - its goals, intellectual outputs, time schedule of the overall project, and individual project meetings. At the same time, the partners agreed on project monitoring and target quantitative indicators as planned in the project application. In the next part of the meeting, the participants worked together on the exercise Impact of the project on levels and agreed on the roles of project coordinator, partners, intellectual output coordinator, and partners in creating outputs and basic rules of communication and documentation. In the next part, the project coordinator presented the basic dissemination activities of the project and the partners agreed on the elaboration dissemination plans.

As part of the work on intellectual outputs, the partners agreed on basic topics and chapters and shared responsibilities for their processing. At the same time, they prepared a detailed work plan for the first output - Training for youth workers in the field of service-learning and a manual for trainers. During the second day, the participants of the meeting focused on the financial management of the project, payments, and the way of reporting individual project activities. The financial project manager presented the individual financial management tools and the necessary documents in this area. At the end of the meeting, the participants evaluated the meeting and summarized the tasks at the nearest period.