International conference: Volunteering as an Educational Opportunity – Service-learning in Youth Work and Schools
The conference took place on March 23-24, 2022 in Banská Bystrica.
The conference aim was to promote service-learning in formal and non-formal education and increase awareness about the role of service-learning concerning the development of the young generation of leaders of change. The conference's objective was to spread knowledge, share experiences about service-learning practice, and network with different stakeholders. The conference was designed for teachers, youth workers, students, and community partners interested in service-learning and presented outputs and results of the project international project EDUVOL. The conference was attended by almost 100 participants from all over Slovakia, Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
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The second transnational meeting on the EDUVOL project took place on 4 and 5 March 2020 in Poland, in Warsaw. The aim of the international meeting was to jointly prepare the first version of the training for youth workers and manual for trainers (IO1), present reports from the mapping of needs in partner countries and incorporate the results into the creation of outputs, prepare a basic version of other outputs and plan in detail the next steps in the project implementation.
The fourth project meeting was held online on January 25 and 26, 2021, due to measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The third project meeting took place according to plan on September 17 and 18, 2020. Due to the COVID pandemic, the meeting was held online and was attended by representatives of all project partners. The aim of the meeting was mainly to discuss the partners' plans for the implementation of Service-learning training in youth work and the possibilities of implementation of training Service-learning in work with youth in the online form, in case it will not be possible to carry out the training physically; finalize intellectual outputs of IO2 and IO3 to agree on the basic concept and structure of the changed IO4 output. A separate part of the meeting was devoted to issues related to the financial management of the project.
The first project meeting took place according to the plan from 21 to 22 November 2019 in Slovakia, in Banská Bystrica. The meeting was attended by all project partners, the participants were the persons responsible for the project and its implementation.