HOP council

AIMS and OBJECTIVES

HOP council aims at reflection on the potential of online learning in European youth work as well as supporting online learning within Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps.

Objectives of the working group:

• to rise awareness of the value that quality online learning brings into non-formal education in youth field;
• to map online learning developments in European youth work;
• to offer focal point as well as baseline for different stakeholders of European youth work online learning;
• to support Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps national agencies in their online learning training offers (creation of new courses and/or internalisation of the existing resources);
• to build competences in online learning among youth trainers and the national agencies;
• to enhance development of the online learning courses, within both European youth programmes, by providing appropriate online platform;

THE COUNCIL

The council is made of experts:

• experienced in European youth work, especially within European Union programmes;
• experienced in online learning, especially in relation to youth work non-formal learning;
• having at least 1 experience of authoring / facilitating course at HOP platform;

The working group might also include representatives of key institutions within European youth work, namely Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps National Agencies, SALTO-Youth Resource Centres, European Commission DG Education and Culture, EU-CoE Youth Partnership, etc.

The role of external experts includes, but is not limited to:

• to consult on HOP online learning further developments;
• to influence development of quality online learning in European youth work;
• to support Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps national agencies in creation of their online learning training offers;
• to co-manage HOP online learning platform based on Moodle;
• to co-edit HOP online learning facebook page and prepare HOP podcasts;

2019 SUCCESS INDICATORS

The council has met for the first time in December 2018 and set the following success indicators for the work of HOP in 2019:

• HOP platform’s layout and structure polished and on-boarding for learners produced;
• quality policy agreed and implemented;
• at least 4 National Agencies involved thanks to HOP promotion (esp. at June’s TCA meeting), including video with examples of successful online learning in Erasmus+ Youth;
• enlargement of HOP council with at least 2 more institutions (preferably NAs);
• 6 fully functional courses with at least 500 learners participated;
• 100 new posts on HOP FB page, 8 new podcast episodes and 2 webinars for HOP users;
• at least 1500 HOP FB followers in total;
• involvement of all external experts into the council tasks;

The HOP online learning platform and the council is fostered by SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus Resource Centre, in spite of its regional responsibilities, as a general support to European youth work.

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