Timeline 4 Europe

A – Problems the project is based on:

1. Lack of knowledge about structured dialogue and about the work of the European semester in the field of youth empowerment (a participated discussion system that aims to increase the access to rights of young people, the personal authonomy, cross skills, active citizenship and mobility);

2. Lack of knowledge about the history of European Union (history about every country that joined EU or the partner countries, knowledge of the law and of the roles of the main institutions, etc.);

3. Lack of knowledge of non formal education by the traditional school system;

4. Lack of knowledge of the networks and group work between the different institutions that work in the field of youth, both at a local and an international level;

5. Lack of knowledge about the “Erasmus +” and the opportunities offered by this program;

6. Problems related to school dropouts, especially in case of youngsters children of immigrants or members of linguistic minorities;

B - Objectives

1. A common sense of European citizenship, included in the European dimension of mobility of youngsters and in the sharing of experiences and good practices between young people across Europe;

2. The official recognition of non formal education and of the importance of cross skills in the education and development of every youngster;

3. The official recognition of the structured dialogue as a tool able to solve problems and develop regarding youngsters, involving them in proposal and suggestions, through confronting themselves with civil society and policy makers;

4. The building of a permanent partnership between each partner involved in the project, able to share methodologies and good practices in the field of non formal education;

5. The official recognition of the Youth Pass in the study career;

6. The inclusion of non formal education activities in school programs, also aiming to solve dropouts and relations between ethnic and linguistic diversities at school;

7. The offer of a path of guarantee to the NEETs, in which can be present work opportunities, formative opportunities and non formal activities, aiming to keep the youngsters far from depression and from resignation.

C - How?

The project is structured in three parts.

First Part – Every partner in his country

A cycle of seven meetings with ten young participants, plus one decision maker, one school representative and one representative of a work agency.

In every meeting one of the problem presented in section A will be chosen and discussed, following the method of structured dialogue.

Every group leader will have the responsibility to prepare and follow online surveys about the main issues and analyze them during the meeting.

Second Part – Trans-national meeting

At least six month after the first meeting, every partner and all the thirty young participants will meet for a week in the country of the promoter of the project. During this week we will analyze and discuss the results of the discussions of the first part, with a comparison of the methods and the comparison of the statistic data collected.

The discussions will be lead by the structured dialogue method, with decision makers, school representatives and representatives of work agencies.

At the end of this week, the project aims to produce concrete proposals, as the ones proposed between the objectives. The decision makers will be engaged to grant the discussion and the application of these proposals.

Third Part - The building of the web platform of good practices

The projects aims to build, at the end of its concrete development, a web platform in which each partner will share results, reports of the experience, good practices and all the video and photographic material realized during the entire course of the project.

On this online portal we will also upload the proposals realized by the participants and supported by the decision makers and the surveys done during the first part.

D – Dissemination, follow up and monitoring

Every step will be documented by videos and photos, and each meeting will be reported on the websites and blogs of each partner and shared in the related social networks.

Each participant will receive promotional material about the Erasmus+ together with the Youth Pass Certificate.

The local press will be informed about this event and will contribute to extend the visibility of the project.

E - Questions for the partners (added to partnership form)

1. How many policy makers are you able to involve in the project? What kind of policy makers (local, European, etc.)?

2. How many stakeholders (different from policy makers) are you able to involve? Give some example.

3. Which are your relationships with schools? Explain briefly.

4. Are you able to involve policy makers and other stakeholders during the entire course of the project?

5. Are you able to realize and collect results of an online survey which can involve a cross-section of at least 300 people?

6. Are you able to realize photos and videos of each meeting and upload them on your site quickly, and share it on the social network, reaching at least 2-300 views?

7. Are you able to monitor all the course of the project with instant reports?

8. Are you able to connect via Skype with the rest of the partners, to solve possible problems in a shared way?

9. Do you know the problems that the project aims to solve? At what level? Which is the one you organization is more suitable to work with? Which is the one you know worst?