It is evident and clear that too many organisations around Europe have received funding for projects that end almost as soon as the funding stops. Although there might be a good reason for this and therefore there may be some exceptions to this, for our consortium these represent poor projects. Another common mistake is the poor definition of the role of the youth worker, usually organizations make the mistake to assign to any youth worker the tasks and activities designed for a project manager without a previous specific training. Quality Plus (QP) is a 19 months Strategic Partnership (SP) of non-profit organizations. QP focuses on promoting high-quality youth work aiming to provide youth workers all the necessary knowledge and Project Management (PM) tools to prove the benefits of PM methodology and depict situation of the awareness and usage of different PM methodologies and tools in non-profit sector. The project foresees two intellectual outputs, one training events and local workshop and dissemination activities. In the project training events will participate 16 participants and indirectly more than 2,000 people will benefit from local workshops, local trainings, new projects, etc.. The training events will be aiming to share best practices, methodologies and to empower the participants to raise their projects impact and to produce a sustainable effect on young people. We expect to have several follow-up projects by using the knowledge acquired throughout the training activities. The project will be managed in a collaborative way, based on collective intelligence and regular communication. The following methodology will be applied: Plan, Do, Check, Act. This aims to constantly monitor the project advancement and to ensure permanent quality improvement. This methodology also mean that steps must be realized in time bound manner as any lateness or missing parts can have direct influence on other people work. Our impact is the follow: -The project is directly aimed to youth workers and volunteer team in the field of PM methodology. They will benefit from educational content to improve their management skills regarding to youth work. -The youth workers will benefit in terms of motivation, commitment, tools and methods. They will have greater satisfaction in their volunteer commitment and perform better quality of youth work. Their level of skills will improve and these skills will be also transferable to other volunteer engagements or even in the job market. -Youth workers and other organizations staff involved in learning activities will benefit from improved youth work: more committed and motivated youth workers, more consistency between regardless of youth workers involved in learning activities. -Organizations involved will benefit from improve processes, results and projects, therefore optimise available resources for new activities in the social field. The project aims to contribute to sustainability and capacity building of the organization. After the project implementation, the collaborative networks and cooperation consortiums of the partnering organisations will be an important channels to reach the target groups and disseminate the project further. Each partner is a member in various collaborating networks, which gather regularly to the network meetings to exchange ideas and experiences, review new project proposals and assess the initiative's progress. Annual and periodical international conferences, seminars, workshops and other meetings, which are based on active working methods with sessions, workshops and seminar presentations, will provide excellent forums for reaching the project target groups and disseminating the project results. Thus the results of the project benefit not only the consortium members, but also the organisations throughout Europe, even globally.
It is evident and clear that too many organisations around Europe have received funding for projects that end almost as soon as the funding stops. Although there might be a good reason for this and therefore there may be some exceptions to this, for our consortium these represent poor projects. Another common mistake is the poor definition of the role of the youth worker, usually organizations make the mistake to assign to any youth worker the tasks and activities designed for a project manager without a previous specific training. Quality Plus (QP) was a 13 months Strategic Partnership (SP) of non-profit organizations. QP focused on promoting high-quality youth work aiming to provide youth workers all the necessary knowledge and Project Management (PM) tools to prove the benefits of PM methodology and depict situation of the awareness and usage of different PM methodologies and tools in non-profit sector. The project foreseen one intellectual output, one survey analysis report, one training event, local workshops and dissemination activities. In the project training events participated 16 participants and indirectly more than 2,000 people which benefited from local workshops, local trainings, new projects, etc.. The training event was aimed to share best practices, methodologies and to empower youth workers to raise their projects impact and to produce a sustainable effect on young people. We expect to have several follow-up projects by using the knowledge acquired throughout the training activities. The project was managed in a collaborative way, based on collective intelligence and regular communication. The following methodology was applied: Plan, Do, Check, Act. This aimed to constantly monitor the project advancement and to ensure permanent quality improvement. This methodology also meant that steps were realized in time bound manner as any lateness or missing parts could have direct influence on other people work. Our impact was the following: -The project was directly aimed to youth workers and volunteer team in the field of PM methodology. They benefited from educational content to improve their management skills regarding to youth work. -The youth workers benefited in terms of motivation, commitment, tools and methods. They had greater satisfaction in their volunteer commitment and performed better quality of youth work. Their level of skills improved and these skills were also transferable to other volunteer engagements or even in the job market. -Youth workers and other organizations staff involved in learning activities benefited from improved youth work: more committed and motivated youth workers, more consistency between regardless of youth workers involved in learning activities. -Organizations involved benefited from improve processes, results and projects, therefore they optimised available resources for new activities in the social field. The project aimed to contribute to sustainability and capacity building of the organization. After the project implementation, the collaborative networks and cooperation consortiums of the partnering organisations will be an important channel to reach the target groups and disseminate the project further. Each partner is a member in various collaborating networks, which gather regularly to the network meetings to exchange ideas and experiences, review new project proposals and assess the initiative's progress. Annual and periodical international conferences, seminars, workshops and other meetings, which are based on active working methods with sessions, workshops and seminar presentations, will provide excellent forums for reaching the project target groups and disseminating the project results. Thus the results of the project benefit not only the consortium members, but also the organisations throughout Europe, even globally.