Parallel sessions - Nordic Thematic Seminar Sweden 2023 by Lars Nilsson

Sweden

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:15:50 UTC

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Finland

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:15:54 UTC

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Norway

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Denmark

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:16:02 UTC

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Iceland

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How to monitor your KA2 project

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:18:35 UTC

KA220 projects have designed their projects on the basis of a goal hierachy or logical framework. Do all beneficiaries know how to monitor the progress of their project using this framework as a tool?

This could be a session where the participants can share their experience on how they plan to monitor/have monitored their project. One focus cuould be on analysing and understanding the difference between indicators and activities. Another one, to find common understanding on what goal achivement is; does quantitative achievement mean also good project quality, or are there other components that add to the quality of a good project?

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Priorities vs. practice

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:19:06 UTC

Short description: How do you integrate the priorities in project work. What does a priority look like in practice? How to avoid being superficial.

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1 panel with representatives from all 5 countries, each representing a priority (inclusion, participation, digital, green, solidarity) : good practices

Or: 5 parallel panel discussions on each priority. A participant from each country to highlight how they are implementing it in their work. The discussions could follow the same structure/questions in each of the sessions.

Could be shorter than 45 min?

We could come up with the right people to discuss and highlight a practice. Paavo/Jutta can volunteer facilitating, if 5 panels. If only one panel, facilitators can take care of it.

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Youth participation after the youth exchange (confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:19:18 UTC

Short description:

Both applications and final reports show that most youth exchange projects are good in involving young people in the preparation and implementation of a project, but not as much when it comes to the afterlife/ follow up. Why is that?

Let share experiences on how we can keep the young people engaged and connected

Purpose/Strand: Follow-up

Target group: Probably most relevant for Youth Exchange projects (or other projects where youth workers are involving young people in the projects). The session is based on sharing, and can be relevant for newcomers and more experienced.

Aims/goals: Get new ideas and/or methods for involving youth in evaluation, getting visibility and spreading results, and maybe even in planning your next project?

Responsible NA / NA-officer: Gry Nesse, NA Norway

Estimated time: 60 - 75 minutes

How can the civil society and public sector work have a positive and sustainable collaboration? (Confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:19:32 UTC

Collaboration between public actors and civil society can have a positive and sustainable impact on society. Successful collaboration is born out of complementary efforts from the different parties and a shared recognition that everyone has something to gain from collaboration.

This guide provides readers with information and inspiration for collaboration and is designed to help you collaborate with civil society.

This is a revised version of the Swedish Collaboration Model developed by the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society. It has been adjusted for European users.

Purpose/Strand: Planning

Target group: All beneficiaries

Aims/goals: To inform and inspire for collaboration and is designed to help you collaborate with civil society.

Responsible NA / NA-officer: NA Sweden

Estimated time: 1-1,5h

Safer Space Round Table (Confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:19:53 UTC

Short description: What does Safer Space mean and what are the ground rules for creating one? You can hear about a practice in The Finnish Youth Association - how they prepare their leaders for creating a safer space. Discuss the topic and adopt practices to your own projects.

Sini Korhonen, The Finnish Youth Association

Paavo Pyykkönen, NA Finland

We don't talk about Youthpass (confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:19:59 UTC

Short description:

Youthpass is all about keeping learning on the agenda of Erasmus+/ESC projects. If you work with Youthpass from the planning to the follow up, - you keep learning and will find words to express your learning.

In this workshop we will look at how we can plan the learning process by the help of Youthpass.

There will also be a short presentation of the newest updates.

Purpose/Strand: Learning/ Planning

Target group: Representatives from projects that would like to discover the full potential of Youthpass

Aims/goals: Promote the value of Youthpass as a tool for participants to recognising learning

Responsible NA / NA-officer: Gry Nesse, NA Norway

Estimated time: 75 min

Smooth closing - Preparing for the final report (maybe action specific)

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:20:37 UTC

Short description: This could also be one session, but it makes more sense to offer action specific sessions where beneficiaries get advice from NA on how to be best prepared for the reporting, get input on what we are interested in reading about and not, and where they also can share experience .

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Communicate your project (confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:20:42 UTC

Short description: The European Commission have launched a guide to do high quality communication work in Erasmus+ and ESC projects. Someone working as a communication officer could present this guide / give useful tools

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Responsible NA / NA-officer: Oli

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Learning of informal/non-formal learning (confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:20:47 UTC

Informal and non-formal learning are cornerstones of working with young people. Why is that and why is it important to emphazise? This session will take you through a short introduction to the concepts of informal and non-formal learning and how you can use as a reference to impact. Moreover we will invite a Key Action 2-project to talk to share how they look at these learning concepts in their project.

DKNA

How to use the EU Youth Strategy on local level? (Confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:21:03 UTC

Short description: The EU Youth Strategy calls on member states and the European Commission to implement various measures to address the challenges facing young people across Europe today. The measures are based on the three main areas of the Youth Strategy: engagement, connection, and empowerment. With the support of the strategy and various tools, you can start forming your own work plan to engage, connect and empower young people according to their needs in your municipality, region or organisation.

Tool: EU youth strategy at local level | MUCF

Purpose/Strand: to provide a structure for needs analysis, prioritisation, monitoring and feedback with room for young people’s participation throughout the process

Target group:All project owners

Aims/goals: Making the implementation of EU youth strategy visible

Responsible NA / NA-officer: Sweden, Karin Persdotter?

Estimated time: 30-45 min

Quality in preparation of partcipants (merge with safer space)

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:21:09 UTC

Short description: A workshop to gain methods and tools on preparation of youth partcipants. Try different methods, share preparation tools and reflect.
Purpose/Strand: Set focus on the importance of preperation.
Target group: Everyone that plan for mobility action for youth.
Aims/goals: Raise awarness and gain skills on preparation.
Responsible NA / NA-officer: Sweden/Liv
Estimated time: 2 hours

Sexual haressments and crisis management (Confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:21:14 UTC

Short description: Workshop in creating an environment to prevent sexual haressment/assault during projects, and how to do crisis management when it does happen.
Purpose/Strand: Equal opportunities and non discrimination.
Target group: All project owners
Aims/goals: Prevent sexual haressment/assault in projects and enabling qualitative crisis management if it does happen.
Responsible NA / NA-officer: Lisa Åkesson
Estimated time: ?

Monitoring the projects objectives in large projects (confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:21:25 UTC

What indicators do you follow? This session allows the participants to work on creation of indicators for their own large project.

This session is aimed for promoters who work with KA2 Cooperation projects, in Accreditation and in Volunteering.

Jutta Kivimäki, NA Finland

Paavo Pyykkönen, NA Finland

Quality of the project results (KA2)

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:21:31 UTC

Short description: A workshop on what good quality of PRs is! Discussions around what KA2 beneficiaries deem as good quality results, and viewing these against the critreria for project deliverables set by the EU Commission.

Purpose/Strand: Dissemination and follow-up

Target group: KA2 beneficaries

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Responsible NA / NA-officer: Iceland

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Let's talk about impact (confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2023-03-31 12:21:38 UTC

What is impact and how does it look? This session invites all project to a work-in-progress workshop on how to look at and understand impact in the framework of E+ and ESC. We will share what good impact is and how it differs from outputs, results, etc.

DKNA

Innovation in KA2

larsnilsson — 2023-10-26 05:59:58 UTC

Short description: Many KA2 projects shall develop innovative products, methods and results that will benefit the youth sector. How do we define innovation within the KA2 context? Have an introduction about it and then give examples of projects that have shown to be innovative.

Strand: Planning

Target group: The session can be open for existing KA2 beneficiaries, but also for others who intend to apply for a KA2 project.

Aims/goals: Can be a quite inspirational session if we find good examples to share!

Responsible NA / NA-officer: Iceland

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Green travel

larsnilsson — 2023-10-26 06:22:37 UTC

Short description: Do you have any good examples of green travel -how to plan it to make it successful? What are the best ways of making the money last?

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DiscoverEU Inclusion action for you? (confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2023-10-26 06:23:26 UTC

Learn how to use the new DiscoverEU Inclusion action. What makes a project great? What can you do to ensure the quality of the learning dimension in your project?

Learn from beneficiaries that have done project. Norway has two potential examples, maybe Finland has one too?

This session could either be a more general introduction to the key action, or more spesific on how to enhance the learning dimension of the project (or a combo).

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Target group: Organisations that have no experience with this action, not for the ones who have DEU Incl projects granted

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Responsible NA / NA-officer: Norway

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Yearly Planning in Accreditation

larsnilsson — 2023-10-26 06:39:36 UTC

Short description: Would it be nice to hear from an accredited organisation how they make a yearly plan under their accreditation (Paavo FI) Maybe City of Espoo Purpose/Strand:

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EGL Charter

larsnilsson — 2023-10-26 06:42:16 UTC

Short description: How the Charter could be used when building a strategy for international youth work. All the Nordic countries are part of EGL, can we find a good speaker from any of the countries? If not Jutta FI will take it

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Responsible NA / NA-officer: Finland

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Democracy reloading

larsnilsson — 2023-10-26 06:45:48 UTC

Short description: We have produced some nice cards, and like to brag about them. If it fits in, we could have a workshop on them. I doubt it fits in. I really do. (Gry)

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Quality Youth Participation

ungdom_ufs — 2023-11-14 13:51:55 UTC

How do you create meaningful youth participation in your activites during implementation? Or planning?

But maybe Norway has the lead on this in another strand?

DKNA

Best practice: Looking back at solidarity projects (confirmed)

ungdom_ufs — 2023-11-15 07:44:21 UTC

How does Solidarity Projects look? This session will explore various examples of good Solidarity Projects from the different Nordic countries and look into what works, and maybe even what does not work. By looking at the examples we will exchange experiences on how to perform good quality when working with this action.

DKNA

Rights-based youth perspective and why it is important when doing an Erasmus+ or European Solidarity Corps project (confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2023-11-24 12:17:55 UTC

Short description: As a help on the way to securing young people's democratic and human rights, MUCF has developed a model that describes a rights-based youth perspective. Should you or your organization make a decision or carry out an initiative concerning young people aged 13-25, the six different parts of the model must always be taken into account. By starting from a rights-based youth perspective, you respect young people's rights, get better and more efficient decisions that strengthen democracy.

The session will focus on how the different projects within Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Crops can be imroved by taking this perspective into consideration.

This might also connect to Swedens presidency in The Nordic Committee for Children and Young People (NORDBUK) and gather input from participants about what is important in the Nordic surrounding young people and their mental health. (will not be the main focus of the sessions rather an opportunity to get informal input)

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Responsible NA / NA-officer: Sweden

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KA150/151 Accreditation (confirmed)

aktivungdom — 2023-12-06 14:10:19 UTC

First round: Come to meet other accredited organisation and echange experiences

Second round: Come and hear if Accreditation in the Youth Field could be an useful way of working for your organisation.

Paavo Pyykkönen, NA Finland

KA 152 Youth Exchanges (confirmed)

aktivungdom — 2023-12-06 14:10:32 UTC

First round: Come to meet other organisation who have run youth exchanges and exchange experiences

Second round: Come and hear if Youth Exchanges could be an useful way of working for your organisation.

Betty Cutolo, NA Norway

Óli Örn Atlason, NA Iceland

KA 153 Mobility of Youth Workers (confirmed)

aktivungdom — 2023-12-06 14:10:47 UTC

First round: Come to meet other organisations with ongoing Mobility of Youth Workers projects to share experience and challenges.

Second round: Let's talk about how you can use this Key Action to increase the competence level of your staff and/or strengthen your international network.

Gry Nesse, NA Norway

KA 154 Youth Participation Activities (confirmed)

aktivungdom — 2023-12-06 14:11:10 UTC

First round: Come to meet other organisation who have arranged Youth Participation Activities and exchange experiences.

Second round: Come and hear if Youth Participation Activities could be an useful way of working for your organisation.

Kati Inkinen, NA Finland

KA 155 DiscoverEU Inclusion (confirmed)

aktivungdom — 2023-12-06 14:11:48 UTC

First round: Come to meet other organisations with ongoing DiscoverEU Inclusion projects. Exchange experiences with others, and learn more about how to ensure quality of learning dimensions in your project.

Second round: Learn about how to use this Key Action to organise interrail trips for young people facing barriers for participation. DiscoverEU is a fantastic opportunity for young people to travel, meet new friends and discover Europe in a sustainable way.

KA 210 Small Scale Partnerships (confirmed)

aktivungdom — 2023-12-06 14:16:23 UTC

Are there any staff present who are familiar with this action and the adminstrative questions that might be related to it? KA2 Staff training at the same time.

KA 220 Cooperation Partnerships (confirmed)

aktivungdom — 2023-12-06 14:16:38 UTC

First round: Come and meet other organisations who have arranged Cooperation Partnerships, and exchange experiences and tips for good project implementation.

Second round: Join us to see if Cooperation Partnerships could be a next step for your organisation or partnership.

Julia Tróchez, KA2 Officer, NA Norway

ESC50/51 Volunteering (confirmed)

NuKuLi — 2023-12-07 11:29:52 UTC

First round: Come to meet other Quality Label organisations and echange experiences

Second round: Come and hear if Volunteering action could be an useful way of working for your organisation.

Jutta Kivimäki, NA Finland

ESC30 Solidarity Projects (confirmed)

NuKuLi — 2023-12-07 11:30:27 UTC

First round: Come to meet other Solidarity Project beneficiaries and echange experiences.

Second round: Come and hear if Solidarity Projects could be an useful way of working for you.

Ari Sigurjonson, NA Iceland

Alexander Clausen, NA Denmark

Working well with partners (confirmed)

NuKuLi — 2023-12-07 12:01:48 UTC

Short description:

In an international project you need minimum one partner, and who you choose to cooperate with can influence the quality of your project in a positive or negative way.

In this workshop we will share and reflect together on different aspects of partnerships such as:

How to share the ownership of the project?

How to keep everyone involved and interested?

What to do if the partnership is not working out?

What are important values, knowledge and skills in a partner?

What kind of partnerships agreements should/could you have?

Target group: Both newcomers and organisations with more experience in working with international partners

Aims/goals: Reflect on what qualities are important in a partner, share good/bad practise and get som practical tips that can improve your partnerships.

Responsible NA Officer: Gry Nesse, NA Norway

Estimated time: 75 min

Supporting Young Volunteers in ESC Volunteering (confirmed)

NuKuLi — 2023-12-07 12:04:26 UTC

Share, discuss and exchange your practices - steal good working ways and get inspired by other people's practices!

Jutta Kivimäki, NA Finland

Taia Nysted Schjøtt, NA Denmark

Cooperation Activities Good Practices

NuKuLi — 2023-12-07 12:19:32 UTC

Invitation to projects to come and share their approaches to the selected topics. We could have a couple of examples, Finnish Youth Research Society KA220, Sateenkaari-ikkuna KA210

Could one of the facilitators run this?

Youth Led Projects - Support Group (confirmed)

NuKuLi — 2023-12-07 12:20:53 UTC

Challenges, mistakes, successes in projects - share your experiences and learn from others. Let the steam out and celebrate the good work!

What happens in this workshop, stays in this workshop! :)

Kati Inkinen, NA Finland

Rooting the project results in organisation work

NuKuLi — 2023-12-07 12:24:40 UTC

Discussion on how to keep the good practices running in daily work.

Where do you find the participants to your project? (confirmed)

NuKuLi — 2023-12-07 12:34:13 UTC

The majority of the youth are interested in societal questions, they have opinions, and potential to participate more.

But how do you word your project idea so that that young people will get interested? Do the young people find your topics interesting and relevant? This is facilitated session for you to share your experiences and hear others based on story telling, so be ready to share!

Quality failure! (Confirmed)

Oli_Orn_Atlason_IS01_NA — 2023-12-12 10:25:22 UTC

Sometimes our plans fail and even if we try, shit happens!

What do we learn from our mistakes and develop our risk management? How do maximise the positive impact of failures? Come and share your mistakes and how you resolved them?

Paavo Pyykkönen, NA Finland

Planning projects and adding an inclusive perspective (confirmed)

Oli_Orn_Atlason_IS01_NA — 2023-12-12 10:43:56 UTC

Short description: Presenting the importance of inclusion in all projects, introducing a tool/questions to make sure that inclusion is a part of the planning from the beginning - at least in order to get the inclusion support.

Purpose/Strand: Inclusion

Target group: project managers/leaders in all actions E+/ESC

Aims/goals: improve inclusion aspects in project planning

Responsible NA / NA-officer: Iceland - Miriam

Estimated time: 45 min

3 questions to have in mind when you are writing your project:

Who are the people that never show up in your project due to barriers?

What could be helpful for their participation?

What steps can you take to involve them?

Their involvement will improve your project!

Læti - implementing inclusion projects (confirmed)

Oli_Orn_Atlason_IS01_NA — 2023-12-12 10:56:38 UTC

Short description: Læti (Stelpur Rokka!) (accompanied with Miriam as support) will host a session where Læti will explain their inclusion project - how it came to and what is their purpose. During implementation there are a lot of things to consider, where Læti have perfected their inclusive approach.

Space for sharing, discussion and learning!

Updated short description to come!

Purpose/Strand: Inclusion

Target group: Project leaders of all KA projects E+/ESC

Aims/goals: What to keep in mind while implementing

Responsible NA / NA-officer: Iceland / Miriam

Estimated time: 75 minutes

KA2 Project Polska (keep for good practices)

Oli_Orn_Atlason_IS01_NA — 2023-12-12 13:13:03 UTC

Short description: Project Polska.is will share their KA2 project which focuses on green approach...

Discussions

Updated description to come!

Purpose/Strand: KA2

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Responsible NA / NA-officer: Iceland

Estimated time: 45 min

Árborg synergies of the programmes in local youth work (confirmed)

Oli_Orn_Atlason_IS01_NA — 2023-12-12 13:21:29 UTC

Short description:

To be updated

Purpose/Strand: VOL, KA1, KA2

Target group: Municipalities, VOL orgs, Youth workers

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Responsible NA: Iceland

Est.time: ?

Ástráður SOL - peer-to-peer sex education

Oli_Orn_Atlason_IS01_NA — 2023-12-12 13:23:06 UTC

Short description:

To be updated

Strategic planning of accreditation and other E+ projects in Reykjavík (confirmed)

Oli_Orn_Atlason_IS01_NA — 2023-12-12 13:26:40 UTC

Accr. KA1

KA2 projects

School

Strategic approach to the programme - how to use the E+ programme to its fullest - their own agenda, own strategy

Empower youth participation, bottom-up approach in creating E+ projects - Hulda (district-youth councils)

How to market volunteering activities to young people (Confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2023-12-18 13:18:16 UTC

Discussion with practicioners on what are good ways of promoting volunteering projects and what makes promotion more difficult. Sharing of good practices and resolving of challenges.

Jutta Kivimäki, NA Finland

Pratical workshop on dissemination

larsnilsson — 2023-12-18 14:28:36 UTC

How can the civil society and public sector work have a positive and sustainable collaboration? (Confirmed)

larsnilsson — 2025-08-20 11:43:11 UTC

This guide provides readers with information and inspiration for collaboration and is designed to help you collaborate with civil society.

This is a revised version of the Swedish Collaboration Model developed by the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society. It has been adjusted for European users.

Purpose/Strand: Planning

Target group: All beneficiaries

Aims/goals: To inform and inspire for collaboration and is designed to help you collaborate with civil society.

Responsible NA / NA-officer: NA Sweden

Estimated time: 1-1,5h