In order to have a clear picture of the current human context of our planet it is necessary to underline principally two aspects:a) The very high mobility of services, information, financial assets which occur simultaneously (in real-time), with a consequent zeroing of both the time and space factors and with the substantial decrease in the possibility of individuals to influence global processes;b) The high mobility of people which involves all continents. According to the Annual Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are in the world at least 19.5 million refugees, 38.2 million internally displaced within their own countries; 1.8 million persons pending the outcome of asylum applications.More and more today we are living in an historical moment for which interdependence is not only relevant for politologists and economists , but it is a real planetary condition and in fact involves every person on earth.Goal of the project:a) To improve, stimulate and implement the growth of professional skills of the staff, to strengthen the development of innovative processes and the external impact of one’s organization with the goal of transferring approaches and methodologies to different social actors which operate on the same territory on which the organization operates, in order to let the external impact then become more and more tangible and concrete.b) To develop innovative and creative practices, to use new digital and informatic tools in order to facilitate and increase sharing of experiences and best practices.Number and profile of participants:No. 144 - Staff PartnerDescription of activitiesManagement Meeting (A1 and A2) with the purpose of effective planning of the different activities foreseen video conferences per year (B2) as moments of sharing experiences of the different partners and with possibilities and difficulties they encounter in their own countries.6 joint training events (C1 to C6) with the aim of improving management and design skills of the partners’ staff, to increase knowledge of and exchange of good practices between partners, to go on study visits, to become acquainted with the knowledge of glottodiattics (language teaching) as the application and demonstration of how the indications received from the modern language teaching have been successfully applied in the reality of the adult education programme of Centre La Pira.Methodology:The project is based on an active methodology, non-formal, mainly following the "peer to peer" approach. All partners will play an active and central role in the achievement of the objectives. In the various activities that the project intends to carry out, each partner will have to give his or her own specific contribution in terms of expertise, cultural context, links and local opportunities, difficulties and problems it that they face, good practices implemented.Results:A rise and growth of staff skills, the development of new innovative processes, the increased ability to impact on the outside, to transfer approaches and methodologies to the various stakeholders of the territory. Made of "products" increasingly accessible from the outside, tangible and which have an efficient impact on the outside.Expected impacts:On target Group-staff: to increase their technical capacity and develop a greater awareness of their active European citizenship.The impact on partner organizations will be aimed at increasing the capacities to create "local" networks, to be more accessible from the outside, tangible and which have an effective and efficient impact on the outside.Potential long-term benefits Mainly we expect a major impact on the outside (local, regional and national level)A strong opening impact able to trigger sharing processes and of elaborating new innovative proposals, transferable and tangible, for the territory of reference and in a glocal perspective. An impact which the actors of the project for the target group experienced. Such proposals being open and fully accessible, free of charge, can be shared afterwards by social and institutional actors, by the stakeholders and all those who may be interested in developing ideas and innovative proposals on the network.
The project was developed between seven European countries, Italy, Portugal, Luxemburg, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic and Spain. The beneficiaries of the project were the members of staff at each partner organization, which, being based in seven different countries, came from clearly different backgrounds in terms of professional, technical and socio-cultural experience. The project had the following aims: - to improve, foster and implement the growth of the staff’s professional skills, in order to strengthen the development of innovative processes and the external impact of one’s own organization, and to transfer approaches and methodologies to the different social actors in the territory in which they operate so as to create an external impact that can be increasingly more tangible and concrete; - to develop innovative practices, use of new digital and IT tools, exchange experiences and best practice; - to implement the cooperation with different actors of the public sector, of the working world and of civil society in which the organization operates; - to implement the international and transnational dimension, so as to avoid it resulting as an ‘occasional’ feature but rather as an ‘ordinary and constitutive’ reality, in order to guarantee efficacy in the development of innovative and transferable processes, which can strongly impact the external context. The project organized the following activities: Project coordination: -First initial meeting (A1) – Lisbon, Portugal (21-23/11/2016) -Second final meeting (A2) – Rome, Italy (24-27/06/2018) The two meetings were attended by 35 members of staff. One the one hand, they aimed at planning the different activities in a concrete manner, defining the timeline and responding to the potential necessity to adapt the timeline to the needs of the partners, distributing the tasks and establishing the operative agreements. On the other, they aimed at evaluating the project and its objectives, and more precisely the activities organized, the achieved outputs and the administrative management and control. 3 meetings in videoconference: These were held every four months (B2) and were dedicated to the coordination and monitoring of the project, to the evaluation of the completed activities, to the resolution of potential issues and critical aspects emerged in the implementation of the project. Joint Training: 6 joint training events (C1-C6) with the aim of improving the management and project skills of the partners’ staff, of getting to know each other and of exchanging best practice experiences among the partners, in addition to study visits. C1 – Italy 15-19/02/2017 C2 – Germany 22-26/05/2017 C3 – Hungary 9-13/09/2017 C4 – Luxemburg 2-6/10/2017 C5 Czech Republic 22-26/01/2018 C6 Spain 22-26/04/2018 These joint training meetings were attended by 122 members of staff. Multiplier events: These aimed at guaranteeing an impact at a local, regional and national level to the project. They involved over 300 people. Portal website: http://nest.new-humanity.org The website enabled all the partners to use digital and IT tools to exchange experiences and best practices and served as a sharing space. It has significantly contributed to the impact and transferability of the project, and enabled the sharing and elaboration of new ideas which have been innovative, transferable and tangible for their respective territories. Furthermore, it made it possible for the network and its members to be known outside the project, to reciprocally update the partners concerning the activities developed by each group and to put in direct contact the partners of different countries who took part in the several activities in a glocal perspective, experimented by the project actors for the target group. Results obtained: Increase the technical and professional capabilities of the beneficiaries of the project, in order for them to later apply them both within the belonging organizations and outside the context of the association. Moreover, the suggested training enabled the participants to acquire the necessary skills to improve the efficacy and efficiency in each person’s working environment, in addition to being able to use the different tools of national and European funding in the context of the association’s operational field. The impact developed at two levels: -at a local, regional and national level: -the project developed contacts with new and different actors of the public sector, of the working world and of the civil society; -incremented the collaboration between partners and different actors; -fruition of the portal and its products; -innovation and transferability of the project products. -at a European local and/or international level: -the project helped consolidating the European network; -it encouraged the beginning of additional spontaneous collaborations between the stakeholders of different countries; -fruition of the portal and its products.