"Media Sapiens - Fundraising Through Media"

"Media Sapiens - Fundraising Through Media" is a 7 days traning course which will take Place in Stockholm in November 2014, Media Sapiens offers youth workers the opportunity to share good practices from your projects together with other participants and to approach the fundraising and communication from a practical point of view.
It will bring together experienced beneficiaries, newcomers and professionals to learn from practical exercises, to understand the overall communication process within the project cycle and to develop competences, as well as to learn new fundraising tools in a creative and open setting.

Dissemination and exploitation of results (DEOR) is one of the crucial areas of the Erasmus+ project lifecycle. In order to successfully disseminate and exploit project results, organisations involved in Erasmus+ projects are asked to plan effective communication activities when designing and implementing their project. The international training offers participants the opportunity to share good practices from their projects and to approach this field from a practical point of view. It will bring together experienced beneficiaries, newcomers and professionals to learn from practical exercises, to understand the overall communication process and develop competences, as well as to learn new communication tools in a creative and open setting.

Aims & Objectives:
The objectives of this activity are:
• to explore various tools, ways, creative techniques useful for DEoR;
• to help participants design communication and dissemination activities relevant to their projects, target groups, scope of activities;
• to develop competences, skills necessary to implement PR and communication and multiplication strategies efficiently;
• to share good practices;
• to provide opportunities, space and frames for participants to experiment on possible relevant tools and methods during the training;
• to share new and innovative approaches, concepts and activities;
• to give emphasis to the development of practical aspects.

Learning Outcomes:
• Understanding the role and the way strategic planning has in the communication process,
• Being aware of good practices and methodologies in communication of project results,
• Getting familiar with guidelines and tips on DEOR strategies,
• Exploring concrete ideas and plans of DEOR activities for the future or ongoing projects,
• Discovering available social media tools.

Profile of participants:

.3 particpents from each country

• Youth workers,

• Members, leaders of youth organizations from EU and neoughbring partners countries
Gender balance and country balance will be kept.

We would like to invite people who are experienced in issues of youth and the role of social media in youth work; also people who can also learn from each other, living together for 7 days and trying to find out ways of working and cooperating together, using the open spaces of the programme and make the better chance of the process and find new ideas and ways for further cooperation, networking.

Working language: English

Practical information:

• Travel and visa costs 70% reimbursed

• Free accommodation and food is provided to all participants for whole duration of the study session

• 30 Euro participation fee.