Project Title: Motivational systems for active social inclusion Acronym: MASI Project Total Duration: 18 months Applicant Organisation: Association of European Development Priorities : HORIZONTAL: Social inclusion HORIZONTAL: Development of relevant and high-quality skills and competences SCHOOL EDUCATION: Supporting schools to tackle early school leaving (ESL) and disadvantage Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business Social entrepreneurship / social innovation Civic engagement / responsible citizenship Activities: 1. Project management and implementation. Management team (project manager and financial manager) will planned, monitored, controlled, divided responsibilities, prepared communication strategy, time table, contracts, payments and reports. 2. Transnational project meetings. Objectives of workshops will be a discussion of the activities,results,next steps,problems and ways of solving them and timely monitoring. The existence of effective mechanisms for coordination and communication between the participating organizations in the project proposal and are planned 3 transnational project meetings-in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Greece. C. Intellectual outputs: O1 Research - in 3 partner countries. The content of the research will be based on the experience of other Member States of existing programs and tools aimed at: Motivational systems for active social inclusion Promoting the acquisition of skills and competences Civic engagement / responsible citizenship Social entrepreneurship / social innovation Development of relevant and high-quality skills and competences Social inclusion of students; Combating social exclusion and early school leaving; O2 Innovative methodology "Motivational systems for active social inclusion" Developing a innovative methodology "Motivational systems for active social inclusion" would allow youth workers, school psychologists, school advisors and teachers etc. working with students effectively studying and understanding of personality and individual needs, increasing personal motivation for social inclusion and raising achievement in school and reduce dropouts from the school system. Pilot group - testing on 100 students from small towns. They will be randomly selected, without difference of gender, ethnic, religion, social status, etc. O3 Guide The guide will content guidelines and pedagogical strategy for applying the innovative methodology ( O2). In Bulgaria there is no such a instrument for social inclusion of students, so it will be an innovation for Bulgaria. It will contain practical advises, actual steps and legislation. The experts in the educational field will be directly involved in the activity and the products. 2000 students from our network of schools will be indirect involved with the better knowledge and skills of the experts. C1 Learning/Teaching/Training Activity - Short-term joint staff training events- 30 participants. The persons participating in the mobility will be experts working in the field of active social inclusion and responsibility with students. The experts will be selected on a competitive basis. They will need to justify their willingness to participate in the project, their expectations, and how they will apply their knowledge in the future. E1, E2, E3 - Multiplier Events. In each event will attend 60 local and 20 international participants. The implementation of Multiplier events will allow direct dissemination of the project proposal. Will be invited to attend by students, and representatives of municipal and administrative authorities, NGOs and businesses and will be able to share best practices and experiences. Qualitative indicators: - Effective management structure - Effective planning, implementation and reporting of activities and project costs. - Achieving the set indicators and results - created conditions for successful socialization of the students - strong motivation of students for active social integration, - Higher quality of the environment in schools, Quantitative indicators: - 1 research, - 1 methodology, - 1 guide -30 participants attended in Short-term joint staff training events AED will ensure that the project's results will remain available and will be used by others because they will remain on our web page , in the social medias and on the European platform for dissemination of the results by Erasmus + . All the information about activities and results, will remain available on Internet. The stakeholders will be available for a renewals, sharing best practices, results and scientific publications. The specialist and voluntaries are more than welcome to contact us in case of problems and expect feedback. This will ensure the sustainability of the results of this project proposal.
Project Title: Motivational systems for active social inclusion Acronym: MASI Project Total Duration: 18 months Applicant Organisation: Association of European Development Priorities : HORIZONTAL: Social inclusion HORIZONTAL: Development of relevant and high-quality skills and competences SCHOOL EDUCATION: Supporting schools to tackle early school leaving (ESL) and disadvantage Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business Social entrepreneurship / social innovation Civic engagement / responsible citizenship Activities: 1. Project management and implementation. The management team (project manager and financial manager) planned, monitored, controlled, divided responsibilities, prepared communication strategy, time table, contracts, payments and reports. 2. Transnational project meetings. Objectives of workshops were a discussion of the activities,results,next steps,problems and ways of solving them and timely monitoring. For the existence of effective mechanisms for coordination and communication between the participating organizations in the project proposal were carried out 3 transnational project meetings-in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Greece. C. Intellectual outputs: O2 Innovative methodology "Motivational systems for active social inclusion" We developed an innovative methodology "Motivational systems for active social inclusion" which allowed youth workers, school psychologists, school advisors and teachers etc. to work with students effectively studying and understanding of personality and individual needs, increasing personal motivation for social inclusion and raising achievement in school and reduce dropouts from the school system. Pilot group - included testing on 100 students from small towns. They were randomly selected, without difference of gender, ethnic, religion, social status, etc. O3 Guide The guide included guidelines and pedagogical strategy for applying the innovative methodology ( O2). In Bulgaria there was no such a instrument for social inclusion of students, so it was an innovation for Bulgaria. It contains practical advises, actual steps and legislation. The experts in the educational field were directly involved in the activity and the products. 2000 students from our network of schools were indirectly involved with the better knowledge and skills of the experts. C1 Learning/Teaching/Training Activity - Short-term joint staff training events- 30 participants. The persons participating in the mobility were experts working in the field of active social inclusion and responsibility with students. The experts were selected on a competitive basis. They justified their willingness to participate in the project, their expectations, and how they will apply their knowledge in the future. E2, E3 - Multiplier Events. Each event was attended by 60 local and 20 international participants. The implementation of Multiplier events allowed direct dissemination of the project proposal. Students, and representatives of municipal and administrative authorities, NGOs and businesses were invited to attend and were able to share best practices and experiences. Qualitative indicators: - Effective management structure - Effective planning, implementation and reporting of activities and project costs. - Achieved set indicators and results - created conditions for successful socialization of the students - strong motivation of students for active social integration, - Higher quality of the environment in schools, Quantitative indicators: - 1 methodology, - 1 guide -30 participants attended in Short-term joint staff training events AED ensured that the project's results remain available to be used by others because they remain on our web page , in the social medias and on the European platform for dissemination of the results by Erasmus + . All the information about activities and results remains available on Internet. The stakeholders are available for a renewals, sharing best practices, results and scientific publications. The specialist and volunteers are more than welcome to contact us in case of problems and expect feedback. This ensures the sustainability of the results of this project proposal.