ESC 3.0: to make things better Erasmus Project

Project Title

ESC 3.0: to make things better

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Assurance; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Research and innovation

Project Summary

CONTEXT: all organisations participating in the project have been involved in EVS/ESC for years and have developed substantial expertise over the years. This project aims to exchange these ideas and experiences, so that the expertise that is present within each partner, is used in the most effective way.

OBJECTIVES: This project introduces a new way of thinking, a new way of learning and a new way of collaborating. We introduce peer to peer auditing as a tool that stimulates learning within and between organizations, with the aim to improve the quality of European Solidarity Corps projects. Quality is identified in formulated quality indicators that refer to parts of the peer to peer audit proces.

NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS: the project works with 3 partners from Italy, Germany and The Netherlands. All partners have extensive experience in hosting/sending EVS or ESC volunteers and aim to improve the quality of their services and strive for excellence in ESC projects.

DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES: Transnational meetings are used to experiment with the peer to peer audit concept. The framework and content that are needed to execute the peer to peer audit is developed by all partners and will be available online. For a peer to peer audit there are at least two parties involved: an auditor and an auditee: these are roles executed by the partners of the project as part of the pilot. The auditor questions the auditee about a variety of subjects that are related to the ESC project that the auditee is involved in. This process is set up in such a way that self reflection and honest communication is stimulated.

METHODOLOGY the methodology that is used can be seen as a new humanistic approach to focus on learning from each other, establishing equal relationships and promoting self responsibility to improve quality. It can be seen as a bottom up approach that acknowledges the expertise that exists on an operational level.

RESULTS AND IMPACT:
The intellectual output of the project will be a complete framework that is ideally used for peer to peer audit; however it can also be used for a self assessment focussing on quality improvement. To stimulate the use of the outcomes, all (future) organisations that work together with the partners and that are involved in ESC activities, will be introduced to the method, so that the use of the concept and materials gradually increases.
From a modern humanistic point of view, the project aims to establish new, 21st century working relations that are characterised by equality, democratic learning, learning by sharing, motivation to learn (from others) and a decrease of hierarchic structures.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 38114 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lava Legato Foundation & Country: NL

Project Partners

• Associazione Porta Nuova Europa
• Taller d’Art, Cultura i Creació