draft of projects programme

Eco-Click
Malaga 2008


INTRO word: this is only the draft what we want to include into the program, there are no tools chosen, and I want you to tell me what do you think and how we can improve this first draft.
Maybe we can as well come up with some interesting activities for evenings, like interesting fiestas:) or something what we can do together if there wont be any fiesta in Malaga (for example Mondays is not good time for fiestas in Malaga because almost everything is closed). So go on and let me know what do you think...


Draft of Agenda
Euro-Med Youth Exchange


Saturday

Morning &Afternoon

- arrival of participants

Evening

- team building activities [there will be some people who doesn't know each other and we have to make a comfortable environment to work and have fun]

Sunday

Morning

- introduction to eco-topic – do we concern about it?, why?, is it important?
Photo workshop – for beginners

Afternoon

- city game – I really liked it in Poland and I think that once more it can be nice integrating activity

Evening

- fiesta international

Monday

main topic: Waste&Recycling

Morning:

- Recycling workshop
- Making things from different things [we can either show people how to make for ex. Pocket out of tetrapack or maybe it can be the task for afternoon and it will depend on peoples creativity]

Afternoon

- photo tour: “How Malaguenos does concern about the garbage issue in their city”

Evening

- we can come up with something interesting


Tuesday

main topic of the day “Aware consumerism”

Morning:

- Workshop on aware consumerism, overconsumption, fair trade

Afternoon

- Photo tour “Consumption habits of Malaguenos”

Evening

we will see

Wednesday

- Trip somewhere – here I am counting on our Malaguenos (maybe El Chorro? Or if the weather will be nice maybe Nerha)

Thursday

main topic of the day “Global interdependences& Sustainable development”

Morning

- workshop: suggested topics: Global interdependence, Sustainable development, Climate Change

Afternoon

- photo tour: “Me acting responsible, what I can do”

Evening

- we will see

Friday

Morning

- free time

Afternoon

- exhibition of our works [maybe it would be possible to make a real nice exhibition, we have to check it out with Pedro]

Evening

- firewall party

Saturday

Morning

- evaluation [ officially we have to put evaluation here, because if there wont be any activities in the morning we wont get money for the night from Friday to Saturday]

Afternoon

- departure

Eco part - program ideas

here is place to discuss ideas how the eco part of the project should look like:

- what kind of topics you want to discuss
- what you want to get to know
- do you have any ideas for activities...

Maybe we can start of finding out the main topic for the day, and what I want from you right now is to make a list of interesting topics for you! If it is aware consumerism, climate change or anything related with main theme eco:)
So we can make a list, then take each topic as a main day theme and we will find some interesting activities for that topic.

WHO WANTS TO BE IN CHARGE? - to do is collect ideas and select one theme for each day (and maybe already fit topic to the day)

Art part of the program

How we imagined the photo or art part of the project when we discussed it on the dead sea: we were thinking about some active out-door activities connected with art and somehow connected with the main topic of our exchange ecology. So we decided that we can stay during mornings on workshops and during afternoon participants will have some special photo tasks to do.

Either each group will have the some task, either each group different task. We were thinking for example to have one day in the morning workshop about aware consumerism and in the afternoon participants will have to go outside to observe the customers habbits of Malaguenos and try to take a photo of this habbits, and for example afterwards try to divide it into some "best practices" or bad habbits.

So that was the main idea, and right now we have to discuss what kind of tasks pax should have and details.

+ WHO WANTS TO COORDINATE THAT? BE IN CHARGE? to collect all info, and make a draft of the programme out of this?

Name of the project

Hello amigos y amigas, habibis wa habibtis!

As Aga wrote- we need to make up the name for the project in Malaga!

So this would be place where to write your wonderful,amazing and surprising ideas ! Write down everything that comes to your mind, we need a great title!

If we have the eco project and the idea is what Aga and Carol thought in beginning(Eco project with taking photos in the streets blah blah) then my proposals for the title:

D-eco project
Eco-deco
Eco click
eco - me and eco-you


ok just some ideas, not that great but maybe they will inspire you to make something grandissimo!


Kisses
Ieva

Tasks for you - application

My dears, it is time to start with the application and the programme of our exchange.

at the beginning some files which migh you useful for you:
a) application form
b) programme guide - information which consider our project are mostly rfom page 24

And now list of all those things which has to be done. Some of them urgently, some after other are compleated. I count on you. If you feel you are able to do something - please sign up. It has to be our project.

TO DO LIST:

1) Title of the project - it has to be catchy, fancy, sexy and short! and we have to have it fast. Any ideas?

2) Project partners - we are still missing one but Carol is working on this

3) Preliminary Project Agreement - so called part III, each partner organization has to fill out this document and signed and stemped send it to Pedro. We cannot do it untill we will have title of the project. But for now I need one person per organization who will be in charge of contacting organziation and sending part III to Spain.

4) Writing programme - thats somehow task for all. There is already post about programme and you can add all your ideas. I would like to establish working group of minimum 3 people who will together collect ideas and make draft of the programme. Who is in?

5) Writing the application - I hope some of you would like to join writing application. It is very easy, and to facilitate the process even more you can download my last application from "Time for Dialogue". So we have following parts to write:

a) Objectives and priorities (Please explain the context, the origin and the objectives of your project and in which way it meets the objectives and the priorities of the Youth in Action Programme.) - more info about objectives you will find in my first post (first post on blog)

b) Partnership - how you found the other promoter(s), how you established an efficient partnership, and how the partner(s) will cooperate and be involved in the project

c) theme - the theme(s) of the project (so eco&art, but it has to be nicly described)

d) activities - the activities foreseen throughout the project for its implementation, including preparatory and evaluation activities (we can do it after compleating the programme)

e) Protection and safety - Please describe how your project ensures the protection and safety of young people involved

f) Advance Planning Visit - please indicate proposed programme, dates and venue

g) Project's content and methodology:
- how the main theme reflects the interests and needs of participants,
- the working methods,
- how the planned activities and working methods will contribute to the process of non-formal learning and to the promotion of social and personal development of young people involved in the project,
- how the young people will be actively involved in each stage of the project

h) Intercultural dimension - Please indicate if and how your project reflects the following characteristics:
- the project increases young people's positive awareness of other cultures,
- the project supports dialogue and intercultural encounters with other young people from different backgrounds and cultures,
- the project helps to prevent and combat prejudice, racism and all attitudes leading to exclusion,
- the project develops sense of tolerance and understanding of diversity.

i) Impact, multiplying effect and follow-up - Please explain the expected impact on young participants and the local communities involved in the project and which measures are foreseen to attain this impact. In a long term perspective, please describe how you plan to achieve a multiplying effect and sustainable impact. Please also explain how you plan to follow up this Youth Exchange (e.g. new projects within the framework of the Youth in Action Programme, continuous contact with the promoter(s), etc.)?

j) Visibility - Apart from the compulsory use of the Programme Logo (cfr. Part C, Publicity, of the Programme Guide), please describe: how you will ensure the visibility of the project and how your project will provide clear promotional added value for the Youth in Action Programme.

k)Dissemination and exploitation of results - Please give a detailed description of standard measures planned in view to disseminate and exploit the results of the project

If you have any ideas or will to take care of one or more points - feel free to join writing the project. Don't worry if you are afraid that you might write something wronge, I will read it and if there will be any mistakes I will explain you what should be corrected. So you can learn.

I am looking foreward for your involvment...

Program of our project

In order to writte application we have to prepare programme. Once more the question is how to do that. I have that suggestion that we can establish the working group who will prepare the programme and main concept of the project.

Before that all of you who have any ideas for activities please describe it here, as a commnets. After all the working group will read it all and try to build interesting programme.

So go one... its time to work a bit:)

and for those who wants to be part of working group and build the programme please let me know. We will make a skype or msn appointment and we will do our bests.

table which shoud be filled out - as a part of application
download

(you have to wait few seconds before download will start)

Leaders in da project

We have only one month more to write the project. Therefore it is time to decide who will take over the responsibility of being the leader of national group. There are some ideas who should become a leader:

1) stay with the some leaders as in Time for Dialogue in Poland

2) choose totally new people with small experience which will fulfil goals of this project much better

3) choose as a leaders those people who are the most active.

Being honest I really like the idea of choosing fresh people for leaders. My idea and my goal behind this project is to make it as participative as possible and I would be so happy if new people with smaller experience will take more responsibility

What is the role/tasks of the leader:

1) be in touch with other leaders

2) meet with participants before advance planning visit and collect ideas for the project

3) participate in advance planning visit

it is not like that, that leaders will prepare project by themselfs and will lead all workshops. The idea behind being the leader is to meet with the group, collect all the ideas , proposals and so one and then on the meeting with other leaders put it all together, collect all ideas choose the best once and fix the program.

Of course you can count on everybody's help!

Well just there is one person who has to be a leader in order to come - Stas from LV because he will be over 26 next march:)

OK, what do you think! we need some decisions! please let me know what are your opinions and we have to agreed on something

Project date - vote!

Here is a link to the phantastic tool Doodle! All you have to do is go to the link below and fill the chart. You have to put your name (and please put also your country) and mark all the dates which are good for you.

Please do it till14th of July.

This will be also information for the that you want to participate!

click here: http://www.doodle.de/9aznqbwb8hinn85u

Which project - time to decide

We need to start working on something. There are to main ideas, directions where to go. For our project there are two main ideas which we can develop. So read it, think which one you like, vote on that on the pool on the left and comment if you have any comments!

1. Holidays project

The idea is to organize the project just before Eastern in Malaga. In the south of Sapin there are a lot of celebrations during the whole week before on the streest, as far as I know is really colorfull and it is something worth seeing.
So the main topic of your exchange can be holidays, we can focus on some different celebrations on different holidays, well - idea can be develop. Any ideas?

2. Eco&Art project

The idea of that was created sitting and smoking shisha on the dead sea. We wanted to focus on eco problems - because a lot of people are not aware of that. So we thought that we can do an exchange that mornings we will do some workshops and talk about or climate change, or trash or other nice issue:) and afternoons participants will have some photo task - for example observe the customers habbits of malaguenos and take a photos of that; or try to take a photo of good habbits of dealing with wastes. So afternoons will be always outside going around and taking a photos of special topic. Someting practical.

3. Something else

If you have any good ideas we can think about it so go one...

Who wants to participate?

My dears and habibis!

as I wrote you already - we want to meet once again, write a project WITH YOU and spent a nice time in Malaga.

For that I need to know who is in, and how you want to be involved in the project! We want to make a project together and thats important for me that everyone will participate, so please - if you want to participate - try to do this project with us.

FIRST TASK:

if you want to join - please leave a comment and write there your name, and if there is anything that you can help with or you want to help with or you want to learn in order to be involved - write it too.
It can be everything, starting from translation from Ebglish into Spanish (becasue application will be in Spanish) up to brainstorming about activities or planing the night life in Malaga:D

First e-mail

TABLE OF CONTENT:

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1. The motivation and background

2. Where and when

3. The first idea

4. Your participation

5. Project preparation

6. Objectives

7. Activities

8. What to do now

9. Partners and leaders

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1. The motivation and background

As I wrote almost all of you before, the decision that we will do the project was done on the way to the Dead Sea in Jordan; I was sitting in the car with Carol and we were talking and we said that cannot be the end; we knew also how much you get friends with each other and we said - we will do the project. We sit down, smoke shisha, drank a beer and wrote the draft of the project.

I came to Poland, typed the draft, send around, Ania contacted Pedro (spanish coordinator) who will be in charge because we want to do the project in Malaga. He said why not, but he offer one more idea, why don't we make a project during Easter Holidays in Spain - there is colorfull that time and very interesting.

Well, sounds good, therefore once sitting and drinking with Ania in bar in Poland, we thought OK, exchange in Spain maybe about holidays, but we have a great art&eco project we wrote in Jordan, so we decided to do it in Latvia during summer time. As I talked to Ieva - she is interested and we will also do it:)

So that is what we have so far. There will me a lot to do for you now.

2. Where and when

We said about ideas for 2 exchanges - first in Spain and second in Latvia, but maybe at first focus on this in Spain. We would love to do it in the beginning of April, just before the Eastern in the catolc church. The project will be of course in Malaga and I am sure that everyone knows a lot about Malaga (well whole APV before Time for Dialogue - was about Malaga, Malaguenos, Malagueta, bars in Malaga, city plan of Malaga, where is what, where did we lived in Malaga and so one)

So Malaga, beginning of April 2009

3. The first idea

There is the idea which we can develop. We were thinking to make an exchange about different holidays (either religious or national) and we wanted to make it during Eastern in Spain because that is worth seeing. With the topic we were very practical, we thing we have better chances that the project will be accepted because Eastern are once a year and we would not be able reapply for the next deadline:) So I would like us to go in this direction and the rest is up to us

4. Your participation

the most important thing - what I want to have is to have OUR project - not that one person will do everything and the rest will just come. The idea of Youth in Action programme is to involve as many people as possible from the very beginning and we can plan it together:)

After the conversation with few people we agreed that it would be great to have the first list of participants while applying (of course it might be change because of different reasons, like someone cant come because... ).

So think if you want to participate in preparation to our reunion project and the project itself, let us know and get involve in preparation.

5. Project preparation

We have to start somehow. The result of our preparation should be an application on the special form send to the spanish national agency and hopefully accepted. There are to main things that we have to do in order to write application. First agree on objectives, and those objectives should meet objectives of youth in action programme, secondly we need to discuss activities, so what we want to do during the exchange and we have to do the table for each day with all activities and the aim of each activity:D you can find the example of table in attachment.

basing on objectives and activities the application is almost ready.

important is that we should finish with that till 25th of July, because then Ania is going to Malaga to meet Pedro and they have to finalize the application or discuss the details.

6. Objectives

To discuss our objectives you should know the objectives of grant giver because to get fundings our objectives have to meet:) So please read it:)

general objectives:

* promotes young people’s active citizenship in general and their European citizenship in particular;

* develops solidarity and promote tolerance among young people, in particular in order to foster social cohesion in the European Union

* fosters mutual understanding between young people in different countries

* contributes to developing the quality of support systems for youth activities and the capabilities of civil society organisations in the youth field

* promotes European cooperation in the youth field

Permanent thematic priorities

a) European Citizenship

b) Participation of young people

c) Cultural diversity

d) Inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities

Specific priorities for Spain:

a) European year of intercultural dialogue

b) fighting contra gender violence

c) Sport as a tool of support of citizenship acitivites and social integration of young people

d) Preparation for year 2009: year of innovation and creativity and year of elections to european parliament

7. Activities

OK, the most important thing is what we are going to do during the project. Well integration is already behind us and partying and drinking only will not be accepted by Spanish National Agency and we will not get money for that. SO we have to brainstorm what to do and do it:)

in attachment there is a wonderful matrix, table which should be attach to each application with description of all activities each day. And thats our task for now, the most important one, fill it out!

8. What to do now

Well it is time for action.

what I will need from you for sure it is:

a) a declaration who wants to be involved and participate in the project, and what can you do.

b) brainstorm about the project - write your ideas

c) discuss the ideas of other people

d) organize yourself and prepare some draft of the programme

remember everyone can join brainstorming:)

9. Partners and leaders

In some countries it is quite clear who will be the partner organization and who will be a leader, but there is not so many of that countries. So please from each country - Jordan, Egypt, Latvia and Poland - please discuss through which organziation we will apply and who is going to be a group leader (remember that group leader is the main contact person and this person should come for preparation meeting before exchange).

If you need any information for your organziation about the project, also let me know (but take under the consideration that I know only this what is in this e-mail)

Let us know as soon as possible.

As well we are missing one meda country, because unfortunately we are not able to work with our turkish partner any more. As far as I know Abdallah had some ideas for a good meda partners. Well we need to also take care about this.