Story of Change – School for Active Citizenship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Story of Change – School for Active Citizenship

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Social dialogue

Project Summary

The project aims to raise competences of educators working with local communities by the method of community organizing. Competencies that will have focus of this project are following: public narrative, organizing effective social activities and using of innovative educational methods. The project will raise educators competences, as well as create interactive training tools that can then be used in thier everyday work. Improving the skills of educators is possible thanks to cross-border cooperation of partners.
The specificity of social structures and the model of democracy in the countries of the former Eastern bloc require proper adaptation of the method of community organizing. The cooperation of partners will enable to develop results taking into account the specificity of the region. Due to lack the historical context of community organizing in Europe (compared to the United States where this method comes from) the aim of the project is to adapt the method by teaching about it in an interactive, comprehensible way. In this project, partners will create innovative training tools (game and mobile application). Improving the competences of the organizers and equipping them with training tools enabling the comprehensiveness of the OS method in a clear and understandable way will contribute to the promotion of community organizing and will help the organizers to work with groups in the field. As part of the project, partners from Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia will develop innovative educational tools: educational game, mobile application, publication. The project provides the organization of 4 international meetings and 3 trainings. The training topics are: engaging people in times of crisis, organizing people around the social problem and the strength of public narrative. The direct target group of the project is 120 social organizers cooperating in partner organizations and volunteers. The indirect group are the disadvantaged communities with which the organizers work. The project will affect the recognition of the method of organizing social networks in partner countries, but also will enable easier and more accessible education in this area.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 193221 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fundacja Rzecz Spoleczna & Country: PL

Project Partners

• CENTRUM KOMUNITNEHO ORGANIZOVANIA
• Fundatia Centrul de Resurse pentru participare publica
• Europska siet komunitneho organizovania
• CIVIL KOLLEGIUM ALAPITVANY
• Srbija u pokretu