The fifth project meeting was held on November 16 and 17, 2021, in hybrid form. The meeting aimed to evaluate pilot activities within the project and outputs testing, based on the testing of the results, make their final adjustments, and plan the multiplication event of the project - the final conference.
The project coordinator opened the meeting and presented the program. Participants shared expectations for the meeting and agreed on working rules. The coordinator briefly presented the project overview, the project scheme and the current status of the project.
Each partner briefly presented pilot activities and cooperation with organizations and youth. The partners' experience is different, and the young people implemented other projects in several areas. The partners agreed to develop examples of good practice from the projects as part of outputs O2 and O3. The partners shared the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned from the project. All are summarized meeting records. Subsequently, the coordinator reviewed the number of people involved in the testing.
The coordinator presented a proposal in the area of output design creation. At the same time, the partners agreed that all outputs must be completed by the time of the international conference.
As part of the finalization of IO1, the coordinator summarised the external assessors' opinions on the project output. As additional work, the partners agreed to prepare an online version of the presentation so people could use it during the online training. As part of the finalization of the IO2 output, the partners passed the assessments of external assessors. Based on feedback and knowledge from testing, they agreed to add two chapters to the manual for youth workers. Specifically, it was a chapter on the implementation of SL projects in an online environment and a chapter aimed at supporting motivation for the performance of a SL project. As part of the finalization of the IO3 output, SMART presented the current version of the output IO3. The partners agreed to add examples of good practice in the implementation of SL projects to the output of IO2 and IO3. At the same time, the partners worked together on the structure for creating examples and agreed on which models will be presented from individual countries. At the end of this part, they also decided on the distribution of responsibilities and deadlines for this task.
The second day of the meeting was primarily concerned with planning the international conference - a multiplier event. The project partners agreed on the date of the conference and the goals and content of the conference. The objectives of the conference were planned to be: promotion of the EDUVOL project outputs, promotion of SL, sharing of good practice examples, networking and sharing between conference participants, sharing of experience with the implementation of online SL, recognition of leaders and supporters in SL. The conference program was prepared for two days, and responsibilities were divided for individual parts of the conference and conducting workshops, which also included the presentation of SL projects and the outputs of the EDUVOL project.
At the end of the meeting, the partners addressed the financial issues of the project. In the end, the partners evaluated the meeting and its implementation. After the meeting, the project coordinator sent the participants an evaluation form for the meeting. In the form, the participants expressed their satisfaction with the meeting despite the fact that it was conducted online. They positively evaluated the meeting's goals, its content, and organizational security. Documentation from the meeting (attendance list, program, presentation, and meeting minutes) is available from the project coordinator.
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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.
Traning for youth workers in service-learning was implemented two days 23. and 24. September 2020 in Banská Bystrica in 365 lab Link coworking center, Lazovná 5, 974 01 Banská Bystrica.
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.