Smart communication-smart youth participation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Smart communication-smart youth participation

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The project “Smart communication-smart youth participation” collects 4 partners in strategic partnership: Związek Centralny Dzieła Kolpinga w Polsce, Slovenia (Kolpingovo Združenje Slovenije), Kolpingwerk e.V. International, Organizatia Centrala Familiilor Kolping din Romania.

The main aim of the project was to develop common, coherent communication and promotion Kolping system for increase quality of youth work and youth social impact in Europe by exchange the best practices in strategic partnership.

Main target group of the project is focused on the Kolping staff, working with youth in their countries and young leaders of youth groups: coordinators of youth groups, communication and promotion specialists who are cooperating with youth Kolping groups, youth coaches and trainers, young leaders working in Kolping Youth Europe, members of boards responsible for youth work, all person coming from project partners countries: Poland, Slovenia, Romania, Germany.

There was organised 4 meeting, one in each country. Topic of international meetings: • Poland- External communication and promotion tools and new technologies and social media tools in youth work • Slovenia- Internal communication and promotion tools to build identity of the groups and motivation and teambuilding• Germany (Kolping International)- International communication and promotion tools to enhanced links between different European youth groups.• Romania- National communication and promotion tools to enhance empowerment, bottom-up youth initiatives.
As an innovative result of the meetings was developed publicity/manual Model of communication and promotion in youth work – created in order to exchange best practices and ideas and to share the tools and knowledge and other materials shared on the internet sites of project partners and shared with the participants of multiplayer events in each partner country.

The manual will be avilable online after the end of the project for all interested people.

In every international meetings participated representatives of each partner country, total number of mobilities in the project was 51.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 78510 Eur

Project Coordinator

ZWIAZEK CENTRALNY DZIELA KOLPINGA WPOLSCE & Country: PL

Project Partners

• ZDRUZENJE KOLPINGOVIH SOCIALNIH DEJAVNOSTI SLOVENIJE
• Kolpingwerk e.V.
• ORGANIZATIA CENTRALA A FAMILIILOR KOLPING DIN ROMANIA