Community Catalysts III: Toolkit & Training for Practitioners in Regenerative Development Erasmus Project

Project Title

Community Catalysts III: Toolkit & Training for Practitioners in Regenerative Development

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: Rural development and urbanisation; Environment and climate change; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

CONTEXT
European society is demanding a greater voice in decision-making in order to ensure greater equity and prosperity in their communities and to contribute to a more biodiverse and healthy environment. Some municipalities are responding to this demand by launching citizen participation processes and promoting sustainability projects. In spite of these initiatives, climate change continues to confront us with challenges that are difficult to overcome. However, the UN Sustainable Development Goals may provide an administrative framework and the concept of community resilience may provide the socio-ecological framework to overcome these challenges.

DEFINITION OF TERM
Community resilience refers to the capacity of a community or society to overcome great social, economic, political and / or ecological challenges and to get ahead with even more strength compared to its initial state.

PARTICIPANTS AND NEEDS ADDRESSED
This proposal of Community Catalysts for Regenerative Development is driven by the social and global need to promote citizen participation and contribute to community resilience. We have seen that this need can be effectively addressed through ecological regeneration practices and strategies, and we believe that this requires the participation of the following actors in order to have a long-term impact:
· Youth leaders;
· Community leaders;
· Technicians from the private sector and the public sector

MAIN GOAL
Create a pioneering training aimed at youth leaders, community leaders and technicians so that they can become community catalysts of regenerative development in their rural regions, through tools and activities of participatory action research, citizen participation and the co-creation of public policies.

SPECIFIC PHASES AND OBJECTIVES

PHASE 1: Participatory Research-Action in Regenerative Development
Specific goal:
Collect the knowledge, strategies and good practices of youth leaders and community leaders in promoting regenerative development in their rural regions.
Activities:
· Conduction of participatory research in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Hungary
· Collection of good practices and identification of conclusions and recommendations within a report
PHASE 2: Creation of a Guide for trainers and a Toolkit for participants
Specific goal:
Create a guide and didactic material for trainers and a toolkit for youth leaders, community leaders and technicians in regenerative development.
Activities:
· Preparation of a guide for community catalyst trainers
· Preparation of didactic material for the training of community catalysts with a regenerative development focus
· Preparation of a toolkit in regenerative development for leaders and technicians

PHASE 3: Formations
Specific goal:
Conduct a series of pioneer training in regenerative development for youth researchers, trainers, youth leaders, community leaders and technicians.
Activities:
· Training of community researchers (mainly young people) in a transnational formation
· Training of trainers in a transnational formation
· Pilot training for community catalysts on regenerative development

CONTINUOUS PHASE: Communication and Dissemination
Specific goal:
Share the achievements, results and lessons learned from this project with local and European audiences.
Activities:
· Create a website for the project
· Create teaching capsules on ecological regeneration
· Conduct multiplier events in each participating country
· Conduct a high profile transnational multiplier event

CONTINUOUS PHASE: Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for Organizational Learning
Specific goal:
Ensure organizational learning and continue through participatory monitoring and evaluation activities.
Activities:
· Participatory monitoring throughout the project
· Participatory evaluation at the end of the project

REASONS FOR TRANSNATIONALITY
Transnationality benefits the CC-REGENERATION project mainly because it fosters co-learning among partners and includes a wider selection of good practices in regenerative development. In addition, it encourages formal and non-formal exchange between participants of the two transnational formations and inspires the creation of projects and networks.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 85615,14 Eur

Project Coordinator

Profilantrop a Kultúrantropológia Társadalmi Hasznosításáért Egyesület & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Red de Transición España
• Projecto Novas Descobertas Associação Educativa e Recreativa
• Gaia Education
• Resilience Earth SCCL
• Palma Nana soc. coop.