Are you one of the thousands of youth project organisers in Europe? Trying to make a little change with the youth work you do? Maybe you want to have some bigger impact? It only takes a little bit more effort and strategic thinking!
Your youth project is like a stone thrown in the water: it creates some ripples or waves on the water, your youth work intends to have some impact. This booklet helps you think and plan how you can make the biggest possible waves with your project
Visibility, dissemination and exploitation of results (sometimes called 'valorisation') are important features of the Youth in Action programme. SALTO-YOUTH pro-actively took up its 'support role' within the YiA programme and developed this practical publication for youth workers faced with these visibility, dissemination and exploitation requests in their projects.
'Making Waves' hopes to give you inspiration about how to make the most out of your project and create the best waves possible!
The Making Waves booklet has been developed by Tony Geudens of the SALTO Inclusion Resource Centre, based on contributions from different NAs, SALTO, NGOs and Commission colleagues. SALTO has the advantage of being in the middle of different stakeholders. It has good contacts to the National Agencies, and can draw on their previous experiences. This booklet draws on different NA activities about multiplying, valorisation and increasing impact of youth projects. SALTO also liaised with the European Commission, for guidance in this matter and links were made with the DG Education & Culture's unit that works specifically on 'dissemination & exploitation of project results'.
The SALTO Resource Centres themselves, working for the whole of Europe with limited resources, always had to do as much as possible with their limited resources, so lots of 'valorisation' (dissemination & exploitation) of the SALTO work has been done in the past, before the term Valorisation or 'Dissemination & Exploitation of project Results' even popped up its head.
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Making Waves takes you on a journey to have the biggest possible impact with your youth projects: make them visible to the outside world and document your project results and make them USED by others. Make Waves - Have Impact !
The Greek translation of the Making Waves booklet by the Greek national agency of the Youth in Action programme.
"Dalgalar Yaratmak" is the Turkish translation of the Making Waves booklet by the Turkish national agency of the Youth in Action programme.
Radīt Viļņus is the Latvian translation of the Making Waves booklet by the Latvian national agency of the Youth in Action programme.
Haciendo Olas is the Spanish translation of SALTO's Making Waves manual by the Spanish National Agency of the Youth in Action programme.
"Uma Pedrada No Charco" is the Portuguese translation of the Making Waves booklet by the NGO Rato-Associação para a Divulgação Cultural e Científica.