SP – Quality Plus Erasmus Project

Project Title

SP – Quality Plus

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

It is evident and clear that too many organisations around Europe have received funding for projects that end almost as soon as the funding stops. Although there might be a good reason for this and therefore there may be some exceptions to this, for our consortium these represent poor projects. Another common mistake is the poor definition of the role of the youth worker, usually organizations make the mistake to assign to any youth worker the tasks and activities designed for a project manager without a previous specific training.

Quality Plus (QP) was a 13 months Strategic Partnership (SP) of non-profit organizations. QP focused on promoting high-quality youth work aiming to provide youth workers all the necessary knowledge and Project Management (PM) tools to prove the benefits of PM methodology and depict situation of the awareness and usage of different PM methodologies and tools in non-profit sector.

The project foreseen one intellectual output, one survey analysis report, one training event, local workshops and dissemination activities. In the project training events participated 16 participants and indirectly more than 2,000 people which benefited from local workshops, local trainings, new projects, etc.. The training event was aimed to share best practices, methodologies and to empower youth workers to raise their projects impact and to produce a sustainable effect on young people. We expect to have several follow-up projects by using the knowledge acquired throughout the training activities.

The project was managed in a collaborative way, based on collective intelligence and regular communication. The following methodology was applied: Plan, Do, Check, Act. This aimed to constantly monitor the project advancement and to ensure permanent quality improvement. This methodology also meant that steps were realized in time bound manner as any lateness or missing parts could have direct influence on other people work.

Our impact was the following:

-The project was directly aimed to youth workers and volunteer team in the field of PM methodology. They benefited from educational content to improve their management skills regarding to youth work.
-The youth workers benefited in terms of motivation, commitment, tools and methods. They had greater satisfaction in their volunteer commitment and performed better quality of youth work. Their level of skills improved and these skills were also transferable to other volunteer engagements or even in the job market.
-Youth workers and other organizations staff involved in learning activities benefited from improved youth work: more committed and motivated youth workers, more consistency between regardless of youth workers involved in learning activities.
-Organizations involved benefited from improve processes, results and projects, therefore they optimised available resources for new activities in the social field. The project aimed to contribute to sustainability and capacity building of the organization.

After the project implementation, the collaborative networks and cooperation consortiums of the partnering organisations will be an important channel to reach the target groups and disseminate the project further. Each partner is a member in various collaborating networks, which gather regularly to the network meetings to exchange ideas and experiences, review new project proposals and assess the initiative’s progress. Annual and periodical international conferences, seminars, workshops and other meetings, which are based on active working methods with sessions, workshops and seminar presentations, will provide excellent forums for reaching the project target groups and disseminating the project results. Thus the results of the project benefit not only the consortium members, but also the organisations throughout Europe, even globally.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 46047 Eur

Project Coordinator

Norsk Organisasjon for Internasjonalt Samarbeid & Country: NO

Project Partners

• ASOCIACION PROJUVEN
• ASSOCIACAO INTERCULTURAL AMIGOS DA MOBILIDADE
• SDRUZHENIE ALTERNATIVI INTERNATIONAL