Networking Europe through Skills Transfer Erasmus Project

Project Title

Networking Europe through Skills Transfer

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The project was developed between seven European countries, Italy, Portugal, Luxemburg, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic and Spain. The beneficiaries of the project were the members of staff at each partner organization, which, being based in seven different countries, came from clearly different backgrounds in terms of professional, technical and socio-cultural experience.
The project had the following aims:
– to improve, foster and implement the growth of the staff’s professional skills, in order to strengthen the development of innovative processes and the external impact of one’s own organization, and to transfer approaches and methodologies to the different social actors in the territory in which they operate so as to create an external impact that can be increasingly more tangible and concrete;
– to develop innovative practices, use of new digital and IT tools, exchange experiences and best practice;
– to implement the cooperation with different actors of the public sector, of the working world and of civil society in which the organization operates;
– to implement the international and transnational dimension, so as to avoid it resulting as an ‘occasional’ feature but rather as an ‘ordinary and constitutive’ reality, in order to guarantee efficacy in the development of innovative and transferable processes, which can strongly impact the external context.

The project organized the following activities:
Project coordination:
-First initial meeting (A1) – Lisbon, Portugal (21-23/11/2016)
-Second final meeting (A2) – Rome, Italy (24-27/06/2018)
The two meetings were attended by 35 members of staff. One the one hand, they aimed at planning the different activities in a concrete manner, defining the timeline and responding to the potential necessity to adapt the timeline to the needs of the partners, distributing the tasks and establishing the operative agreements. On the other, they aimed at evaluating the project and its objectives, and more precisely the activities organized, the achieved outputs and the administrative management and control.
3 meetings in videoconference:
These were held every four months (B2) and were dedicated to the coordination and monitoring of the project, to the evaluation of the completed activities, to the resolution of potential issues and critical aspects emerged in the implementation of the project.
Joint Training:
6 joint training events (C1-C6) with the aim of improving the management and project skills of the partners’ staff, of getting to know each other and of exchanging best practice experiences among the partners, in addition to study visits.
C1 – Italy 15-19/02/2017
C2 – Germany 22-26/05/2017
C3 – Hungary 9-13/09/2017
C4 – Luxemburg 2-6/10/2017
C5 Czech Republic 22-26/01/2018
C6 Spain 22-26/04/2018
These joint training meetings were attended by 122 members of staff.
Multiplier events:
These aimed at guaranteeing an impact at a local, regional and national level to the project. They involved over 300 people.
Portal website: http://nest.new-humanity.org
The website enabled all the partners to use digital and IT tools to exchange experiences and best practices and served as a sharing space. It has significantly contributed to the impact and transferability of the project, and enabled the sharing and elaboration of new ideas which have been innovative, transferable and tangible for their respective territories. Furthermore, it made it possible for the network and its members to be known outside the project, to reciprocally update the partners concerning the activities developed by each group and to put in direct contact the partners of different countries who took part in the several activities in a glocal perspective, experimented by the project actors for the target group.
Results obtained:
Increase the technical and professional capabilities of the beneficiaries of the project, in order for them to later apply them both within the belonging organizations and outside the context of the association. Moreover, the suggested training enabled the participants to acquire the necessary skills to improve the efficacy and efficiency in each person’s working environment, in addition to being able to use the different tools of national and European funding in the context of the association’s operational field.
The impact developed at two levels:
-at a local, regional and national level:
-the project developed contacts with new and different actors of the public sector, of the working world and of the civil society;
-incremented the collaboration between partners and different actors;
-fruition of the portal and its products;
-innovation and transferability of the project products.
-at a European local and/or international level:
-the project helped consolidating the European network;
-it encouraged the beginning of additional spontaneous collaborations between the stakeholders of different countries;
-fruition of the portal and its products.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 216120 Eur

Project Coordinator

Associazione Volontari del Centro Internazionale Studenti Giorgio La Pira-ONLUS & Country: IT

Project Partners

• AMU – Cooperação e Solidariedade Lusófona por um Mundo Unido
• Associazione Internazionale New Humanity
• Új Város Alapítvány
• STARKMACHER EV
• Associazione “Azione per un Mondo Unito ONLUS” (AMU)
• FUNDACIÓN IGINO GIORDANI
• Action pour un Monde Uni