Erasmus+ Youth Exchange in Sutomore, Montenegro, on 14 – 21 October 2018
Background:
The project was addressing a number of common challenges that not only participating organisations are facing. During several years of cooperation, Member Organisations of the EYP together with their umbrella organisation were able to identify recurring challenges that the organisations are facing. The most common ones have been chosen as subjects of this project, which focused on three main and interconnected areas. First of them was sustainable NGO management in general, including organisational democracy, leadership and motivation of volunteers, anti-discrimination and accessibility. Second main area was successful fundraising, project management and evaluation, including communication and technologies used for planning and supervision (such as Trello or Gantt). Last area was development of international networks and cooperation. Project consortium also acknowledged that it’s important to exchange skills and best practices in recruitment techniques and motivation of volunteers.
Aim and objectives:
The main aim of the project was to empower involved organisations and their representatives to be able to reach a wider range of young people, and to improve the quality of their strategic and everyday activities. Objectives reached by implementation of this project were:
- to raise knowledge of and/or improve skills in the project themes: a) NGO and project management, b) fundraising, c) democratic governance;
- to improve skills in writing a strategic and fundraising plan (for a media organisation in this case) and in using new communication technologies;
- to strengthen capacities and network of EYP’s Member Organisations – primarily those involved in this project;
- to empower participants to become multipliers and inspire other organisation.
Partner organisations
Mladiinfo Montenegro, European Youth Press – Network of Young Media Makers, Ung Media Sverige, Bué Fixe, Scambieuropei, ONAuBiH, Manana Center, 3rd Sector, Cafébabel.
Final outputs created by participants
Moving Ideas Forward youth exchange brought together 50 participants from 10 organisations from 10 European countries: Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Germany, Italy, Montenegro, Portugal, Slovakia, and Sweden. They were young leaders and volunteers, project managers and their assistants. Thus they represented various expertise, but also interests and cultural backgrounds.
Group 1: How to reach and expand your target group
Group 2: Transfer of knowledge – Cafébabel case study
Group 3: Fundraising strategy and budget analysis
Group 4: Techniques to recruit and motivate volunteers
Group 5: Project proposal
Group 6: Final video about the youth exchange
Presentations by trainers and organisers
Fundraising
Project management
European Solidarity Corps
For multipliers and others who are interested in details of the youth exchange – here you can download full final programme of the week.
Media about youth exchange published by partner organisations
Participants from Armenia published blog posts about the youth exchange, their impressions, and experiences on 17.am (only in Armenian): day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5, day 6, day 7, summary.
Article on Cafébabel.
Media published by Mladiinfo Montenegro: articles about study visit to Caritas in Bar (in Montenegrin and English), study visit to NGO Adria in Bar (in Montenegrin and English), and whole youth exchange (in Montenegrin and English); video-summary.
Bué Fixe: post on Facebook.
Ung Media: posts on Facebook, Instagram 1, Instagram 2, and Instagram 3.
Organising team
Denisa Karabová, European Dialogue
Martin Maška, European Dialogue
Milica Zugic, Mladiinfo Montenegro
Elma Selmanovic, Mladiinfo Montenegro
2018, Európsky Dialóg – European Dialogue
