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CASES project – Leonardo da Vinci |
Partners
2 Provincial National Education
Directorate of Eskisehir TR
3 Agrupamento de Escolas de Arganil PT
6 Euro-Idea Fundacja
Społeczno- Kulturalna
PL
7 LOA - LANZAROTE OCEAN ART ES
8 VŠĮ “Žinių kodas” LT
10 NATIONALFORUM ALTERNATIVES, PRACTICE,
INITIATIVES BG
12 CESEP Centre Socialiste
d’Education Permanente BE
13 Multicultural Network AT
16 Prolog GmbH CH
17 SEEDS, SEE beyonD
borderS IS
18 Belvarosi Tanoda Alapitvany HU
19 Pathways: Inspirational Development CIC UK
20 CMO Groningen NL
21 HANDI JOBS, o. s. CZ
22 Association ESENIORS FR
D.1 SUMMARY
PREPARATORY
MEETING: the project idea was developed in Italy during a PM (18-20.11.2011).
In a period
of world economic crisis, the consumerism coupled to the logic of profit at any
price is not sustainable, especially with decreasing standards of living for
large sections of the population and environmental impacts.
The
reshaping of the economy is being stimulated by new approaches such as raising
consumer’s consciousness that they have more choices,
more information and more power to guide these choices.
Modern
enterprises need to take into account the Social & Collaborative aspects of
society and economy - which are amplified thanks to the developments in the
world of IT.
This
proposal is based on responding to the needs of the labour
market and anticipates the new skills that will be required in this new
environment. The project aims to:
-Investigate
the world of Social & Collaborative enterprise throughout Europe,
collecting good practices
-Build
innovative educational tools, in different languages, such as e-book guides for
start-up activities providing relevant information, guidance, resources
-Provide
opportunities, through study visits and receiving on-site training in Social
& Collaborative enterprises
-Create a
website.
The aims
will be reached by:
-Involving
several institutions (public & private) from different countries
-Some study
visits to enterprises based in the Social & Collaborative sector.
Target
groups
-Private:
start-up basics
-Adult
jobless: seeking employment
-Enterprises:
enlarging the vision in a changing economic framework
-Local
authorities/communities: supporting in active participation and open the
accessibility to under-utilized public resources.
All
materials will be disseminated through written and/or multimedia materials and
ICT.
D.3. PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY
OBJECTIVES
1. Give an
opportunity, by study visits, to receive an on-site training in selected
collaborative and social enterprises;
2.
Investigate the situation about the collaborative and social enterprise across
Europe, collecting some good practices;
3. Promote
creativity, employability and growth of an entrepreneurial spirit apt to face
innovative experiences;
4.
Production of tools, in different languages, useful to educate, teach and give
support useful both to private and public sector;
5.
Providing local communities with information and new ideas for a future and
updated vision;
6.
Stimulating some environmental sustainable activities;
7. Suggest
and stimulate the consciousness about a more sustainable lifestyle;
8. Giving a
broader view of the European dimension.
SUBJECT TO
ADDRESS
- Private
interested to a new economic activity and mainly during all start-up
activities;
- Adults
unemployed to acquire new skills necessary to find a job;
- Adults
jobless after the economic crisis that are trying to reallocate themselves in a
changed economy;
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Enterprises interested to enlarge the vision in a changing economy framework;
- Local
Authorities interested to support the local community active participation and
to open the accessibility to the public resources otherwise under-utilized.
APPROACH
The
approach will be based both in study and practical activities.
The
partners will start from a preliminary research about the collaborative and
social enterprise in own countries. The results will be presented during the
first project meeting and it is going to be the starting point for the building
of an in- depth analysis that will be included in the good practices selection
– the selection will be finalized during a project meeting by the participants.
To be
effective and to ensure full involvement of each partner, the project will
create, at the first meeting, a series of subject groups. Those groups will
explore the specifics of their subject and report at regular intervals and each
partnership meeting, to all partners. Members of the wider partnership will
thus be able to contribute to the development of any sub- section.
An
innovative educational tool will be the e-book guide for start-up activities in
order to provide information, support, guidance and resources. The guide will
be translated in all the partners’ national languages.
During the
project meetings will be organized also some study visits, to receive an
on-site training.
D.4. RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
Meeting in Lanzarote
http://ecovillager.blogspot.com/
http://www.cellonline.org/
http://www.solheimar.is/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1stimc_6Ik
Meeting in Portugal
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PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
REPAIRCAFES and other good practices in Paris
TV (M6) about Repaircafé october 2013
About RepairCafé in Paris 19th
Repaircafé 30 nov 2013 at Riquet
Photos repaircafé Mutinerie 11 janvier 2014
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La Grande Fête de la DEPANNE April 2014
Grande Fête de la Dépanne 5th of April 2014
Grande Fete on the site of Maison des Acteurs du Paris Durable
Grande fête on the site of Ministère de l'Ecologie et du Développement Durable
Accessible tourism
Presenting Nautilus to Travelage
Site of the week of sustainable development - April 2013
F.1. DISTRIBUTION OF TASKS
All
partners will equally contribute continuously to each stage of the project,
being involved in all activities, while the coordinator will ensure the administrative
coordination and consistency of the project.
All
partners will participate to:
- Project
meetings
- Study
visits
- Design,
development, implementation and evaluation of the project
- Design
of needs assessments tools and operation of the needs assessment
- Design
of final kit: written and/or printed materials
- Preliminary
research in own country
- Activities
assigned to the sub-groups created during the 1st project meeting
- Report,
at regular intervals, the activities of the sub-group that belongs to
- Give
the contribution to other sub-groups by comments and suggestions
- Produce
reports and evaluation after every meeting
- Discuss
all aspects of the partnership
- Manage
their own finances
- Draw
up intermediary and final reports
The
coordinator will:
- supervise
directly every stage of the project
- check/manage
the evaluation system – together with some partners
- monitor
the activities coming both from the sub-groups and single partners
- promote
the active participation
- update
and distribute constantly the "Time Table and Work Plan"
- help
to solve any possible conflicts
- furnish
suggestions for the development of activities
- support
and stimulate the participation during the study visits
Cause
of the large partnership, the participation will be ensured by the activities
realized by each partner:
a) in
the partner institution, with the work of internal staff and/or volunteers
b) in
the sub-groups created during the 1st project meeting, taking into account
the specific skills and competences of the partners institution and of the
staff persons involved in the project.
c) in
the collective activities during the meetings and the study visits.
The
tool called “Timetable and Work Plan” is created in order to have clear evidence
of the deadlines, the tasks assignments and about the progress of all planned
activities.
Before
the 1st meeting any partner is going to focus the attention at the preliminary
research in own country or area. The partners are also asked to prepare a
detailed presentation of the institution and of the staff involved in the
project activities.
After
the above mentioned activity, is possible, during the 1st meeting, to highlight
the possible contribution, in term of distinctive “input”, that any partner
must be able to provide during the project lifetime.
F.2. COOPERATION AND COMMUNICATION
The
communication will be held with the support of:
- international
project meetings of partners;
- e-mail;
- e-group
(a Google group has been created since the beginning of the project);
- study
visits;
- internet
platform (website and Facebook);
- investigations
and surveys through questionnaires;
- conferences
on Skype.
The
creation of common rules and communication system guidelines is essential.
The coordinator has a long-term experience in EU activities and will build
a tested and useful communication platform based on live and up-to-date communication
system.
An internal
agreement is going to be signed during the 1st project meeting in order to
establish some simple basic rules in order to ensure the activities within
the framework of the project.
The
“Timetable and Work Plan”, continuously updated, give the possibility, immediately
for anyone, to have clear evidence of the deadlines, the tasks assignments
and about the progress of all planned activities.
The
sub-groups created during the 1st project meetings are going to be assigned
to specific subjects. Each sub-group is going to have a moderator, named to
collect all materials and to report regularly to the group about the progress
and the details of the activities. The reports will permit the other partners
to participate and to give the contribution to other sub- groups by comments
and suggestions
In order
to disseminate the information, the project will use all the mentioned ITC
tools and also written material such as leaflets, guides, etc.
Also,
the dissemination of information on an international level, over the partners’
organizations and all along Europe, will be conducted with the help of existing
channels and European networks.
F.3. PARTICIPANTS' INVOLVEMENT
The
project will apply principles that are found in the project’s overall aim
– exploring new approaches to business & economic development. Effective
collaborative and social enterprises require cooperative management processes
– frequently ‘flat’ structures. Thus whilst there is within each partner a
core management group they will not operate the project in a hierarchical
& directive manner but as facilitators to those with whom they work.
‘Core
group’ management responsibilities will be based on framework actions (arranging
meetings, contacting participants, communication with coordinator) as decided
by all participants working consensually. Obviously, the core staff has been
involved from the beginning (draft ideas) and has been active in the elaboration
of project assumption and in planning general project activities into this
project proposal.
In the
implementation of project, the staff will work further in operating the needs
assessment and in local activities (involving volunteers, stakeholders and
all others ones interested in), translation of materials created. Between
project meetings the staff will communicate directly through an e-group, Facebook
and other ICT facilities.
They
will also work with their learners and stakeholders (which will be involved
as specified above ex. Study visits to selected enterprises). The learners
will be involved in the activities planning and in evaluation (feed-backs):
their suggestions also will be implemented into the drawing material.
The
staff is going to be involved directly in the sub-groups created during the
1st project meetings for specific subjects. Each sub-group is going to have
a moderator, named to collect all materials and to report regularly to the
group about the progress and the details of the activities. The reports will
permit the other partners to participate and to give the contribution to other
sub-groups by comments and suggestions.
Where
there is lack of confidence, low esteem & a sense of inferiority facilitators
will require empathy and support to ensure full participation. Management
will ensure that at each stage they are sensitively engaged in the processes.
The project partners understand that it is with such people that the greatest
success can be achieved.
F.4. INTEGRATION INTO ONGOING ACTIVITIES
The
working methods to be used in order to ensure the integration of learners
is various, with particular stress on the study visits to several selected
enterprises already active in the collaborative and social sector. The meetings
will be enriched by some workshops that could increase the active participation
and stimulate the discussion.
The
realizations of the goals will be ensured by the research of good practices
and initiatives already developed in the partners’ countries.
The
project aim is to give learners the chance to acquire new skills that could
create new and different job opportunities in a sector that could also favour
significant environmental benefits.
A real
survey is going to be created to investigate on and to reveal the situation
in several European countries and to provide the data for our investigation:
using the results of this investigation we should be able to understand the
way the citizens are approaching to the social and collaborative enterprises.
The
learners will also obtain a real training on how to use ICT tools such as
create a e-book, implement a website, manage a social network and they will
be involved, together with volunteers.
In every
meeting we are going also to focus on a sensitization about a sustainable
lifestyle.
The
ideas will be promoted together within an European
dimension where everyone is encouraged to contribute: this will demonstrate
that every little contribution is a big step forward in the developing of
a European sense of active citizenship and sustainable lifestyle.
Moreover,
the study visits will be used as working methods to discover the possibilities,
the needs and promote a entrepreneurial spirit.
Obtaining
effective feedbacks evaluations from the learners will also affect positively
the partnerships: those evaluations will be the starting points for some of
the outcomes and products.
The
knowledge developed through the exchange of good practices will be used also
by public administrations in order to support the local needs to realize the
objectives of Europe 2020 Strategy from the European Commission.
F.5 EVALUATION
During
the first meeting an evaluation plan and the evaluation criteria for assessing
activities will be designed.
The
evaluation will be part of each meeting and the staff will work before and
after each meeting in order to collect data and open a discussion about the
evaluation results (e-group).
The
evaluation is going to be applied also to the sub-groups and the moderator
of each group is going to share the results by specific reports.
The
evaluation system will take account of three factors: quantity, quality and
formative/personal aspects.
- Quantitative
evaluation: number of people who will benefit (staff, partners, stakeholders
of each partner, people from local communities, beneficiaries etc.)
- Qualitative
evaluation: quality of materials obtained (evaluated by questionnaires, interviews
and other methods), improvement in participants skills; internal exchange
in each institution, volunteers activity etc.
- Formative:
The programme of the activities will be adjusted
to be:
! sensitive
to need (allowing for fragile nature of some learners);
! understanding
of personal and group progress,
! developing
positive aspects,
! correcting
variance from aim,
! applying
informal reflective process.
Evaluation
‘conversations’ will occur amongst partners with learners assessing the project
and their own learning. This can be achieved, in part, by issuing regular
online evaluation processes.
Sensitivity
to individual need will require FACILITATORS to develop contextually relevant
approaches that are non- threatening to participants.
Such
a process will require:
! informal
processes of listening and observing (with facilitators engaging in detailed
analysis of results),
! facilitated
(possibly by a peer) group de-brief
! on-line processes
! paper questionnaires.
Participants
will evaluate project delivery and pedagogical quality - facilitators ensuring
that this is accessible and understandable.
The
informal approach requires managers to ensure all are ‘heard’ and ‘attended
to’ and share their expertise with each other. This is for facilitators intense
and time consuming requiring encouragement & development of skills where
informal approaches are less common.
Also
an external evaluation will be provided by stakeholders (by questionnaires
and interviews) and mass-media (positive/
negative
appreciation), specially through questionnaires and study visits activities.
F . 6 DISSEMINATION
AND THE USE OF RESULTS
Participating
organisations
Among
participating organisations the dissemination
is going to be effective from the beginning through discussions on e- group.
With
the participation of staff in the internal needs assessment stage, the internal
dissemination will be also arranged. The experiences achieved in the project
(especially during meetings and study visits) will be disseminated by each
partner between the institution members. Each organisation
is going to acquire competences useful to respond to the needs of the labour
market and in anticipation of skills needed in labour
market.
Another
aspect to be considered is that the staff will develop the ability to manage
large international group.
Local
communities
Dissemination
to the stakeholders in the local communities will be ensured first of all
by the participation of the learners in the mobility; after that, those learners
will become “dissemination vehicles”.
During
the partnership the dissemination will be produced in the meetings thanks
to the involvement of local communities and local authorities.
The
meetings are going to include public administrations in order to to
support the local community active participation and to open the accessibility
to under-utilized public resources and to observe the solutions that could
be adopted.
A big
part of dissemination will be done by local and regional networks, accessible
and approachable by the project partners, as well as by the most appropriate
methods (ICT tools – internet, seminars, mass media).
The
adult jobless are going to be part of the project as main direct beneficiaries
and the enterprises also could have the possibility to enlarge the vision
in a changing economic framework
The
material produced will be available in resource centres,
mediatised and spread in different situations
(as workshops, conferences, press communication, meetings etc.).
The
materials will be donated to public administrations, community centres,
NGOs, associations, other institutions, schools etc.
The
internet platform, created during the partnership, will be in fact the main
vehicle for dissemination, with the additional contribution of guides and
leaflets.
Wider
lifelong learning community
This
kind of dissemination will be effective through the various e-groups operating
as tools of adult education network. The internet platform will be promoted
and included in all partners networks.
Final
products will be shared online on partners resource
centres or on demand.
G.2 WORK PROGRAMME
