Europe to Me Erasmus Project

Project Title

Europe to Me

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation

Project Summary

In 2017 more than 22,000 projects have been carried out within the framework of the Erasmus + program throughout Europe and beyond, with more than 84,000 organizations involved and almost 800,000 direct participants in courses, practices, exchanges, seminars and volunteers, among others (Source Commission European). These are very satisfactory numbers, continually increasing and which contribute to strengthening one (if not the best) of the most effective and best-rated European programs in numbers and results.
Throughout our history as participants before and coordinators after, we have been able to observe and receive evaluations on aspects to improve that perhaps should be framed in a standard document so that all those organizations that start in the Erasmus + world can have a valuable tool for improve project management. For example:
What is the ecological footprint of an exchange, or a training course? How many resources are we consuming and how many end up in the garbage or overused? How can we provide a sustainable project? How can we promote a healthy and active lifestyle? But also: How can we really include participants at risk of social exclusion? For example, those with disabilities?
Trainers active in European projects under the Erasmus + program often have a background that has little to do with working with adults. In almost no European country, there is usually no specific university degree for this professional profile. Most of the trainers are made with experience, coming from more diverse profiles (social, cultural, political …). It is necessary that the most experienced Erasmus + organizations, along with others with more specific competences in certain sectors, offer their Know how, adding analysis and exchanging good practices, to offer those who want to approach the world of adult education and those who they already do it, innovative and quality tools and methodologies that allow them to improve in their daily work with adults. Europe to ME will allow organizations to be directly involved in the activities, who will be interviewed and will be able to contribute their personal vision on how to organize training activities that respect the environment and are sustainable; the trainers, who will participate in the research, study, analysis and content creation activities for the manual, at the same time that they will be involved in training activities with disadvantaged groups; adults, especially those at risk of social exclusion, who will be able to make their voices heard, express their feelings, comment on European policies and how organizations should act so that projects are more inclusive and more adults can participate in them Collectives.
The project is therefore aimed at trainers, leaders and coaches, participating adults and organizations active in training and who develop and / or participate in training projects such as exchanges and training courses. Your voluntary participation during the project will allow us to collect the necessary information to achieve the expected results, culminating the project with a pilot training activity to test the contents developed in a real training course, thus providing eventual corrections and improving skills and competitions of the participants.
The project’s priority objectives are:
-improving the competences and skills of trainers and organizations active in Erasmus + on specific and relevant issues such as the environment and inclusion;
-develop and strengthen European networks;
-increasing the capacity of organizations active in Erasmus + projects to operate transnationally;
-promoting learning based on environmental protection and the inclusion of people at risk of social exclusion through mobility projects within the framework of the Erasmus + Program.
We consider that the project can generate the following impact:
-Ability to plan and carry out learning autonomously
-Develop an idea to put it into practice
-Recognize the value of different cultures
-Planning tasks and activities
-Express yourself creatively
The outreach activities have been designed in order to quickly reach European organizations active in Erasmus + but also trainers, leaders and coaches and adult participants in order to reach different target groups, using the appropriate tools for each one.
Europe to Me represents the first in a long series of collaborative activities at European level to improve the quality standards of projects financed through Erasmus +

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 41460 Eur

Project Coordinator

Asociaciòn Cultural Ingalicia & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE ENJOY SICILY
• Kehitys & Koulutus
• Hnuti Brontosaurus