BE MORE Leadership Programme is an international cooperation project, which core objective is to develop the youth and student organisations of our networks. This will be done in the project in two ways: by cooperation and sharing experiences and creating an online course for youth organisation leaders. There are a lot of organisations who develop leadership skills in youngsters among Europe. From the Estonian perspective, we see that there is not a lot of cooperation with neither Estonian nor European colleagues on this activity. We believe that if there would be more exchange of practices in training youth leaders, the education we could offer would be even better. Another thing we see is that even if there is a lot of material and courses on management and leadership, there isn't any relevant for youth organisations. During this project we want to create an online course for youth organisation leaders so that they would all have basic knowledge and skills in organisation management. When we have created the course, we also want to implement it to our activities and training programmes. Sharing experiences and developing an online course help us to provide better education on organisation management for youth organisations. Better education leads to to better skills and organisation management, which itself means that organisations can offer better and more developing experience to organisation member and the youth organisations are able have a bigger impact on society and reach their goals faster. The first part of the project the project partners share their experiences and knowledge, plan and create the online course. This will take approximately a year. The second year of the project will be for testing out the online course in our activities and training programmes. All of us have longer programmes or shorter events where we aim to educate young leaders or youth organisation managers, the online course will be integrated to these activities. Üliõpilaskonna Sihtasutus and Domus Dorpatensis both organise an 8- month training programme for young leaders, Zero Generation has training events in summer. Landesjugendring Baden-Württemberg e.V. and Estonian National Youth Council provide development tools to the youth organisations in the network all year long, they will integrate the online course to their shorter training events.The second year will end withmultiplier events which focus on promoting the online course to even more youth organisations and disseminating the project results. During the second year, we will actively reach out to partner from other European countries to spread the online course even further. Within this project, we hope to reach at least 100 youth organisations and 400 youth organisation leaders. This means we wish that by the end of this project, 100 organisations have passed the online course. With the knowledge gained from the online course and our training activities, the youth organisations will give better organisation experience to their members, be able to recruit more members, take up bigger activities that help to impact the society and reach the objectives of the organisation. Since the online course and its materials will be available for everyone, we reach to build enough connections and integrate the online course to our activities so that after the end of this project, youth organisations will use this online course at the beginning of every year and more and more organisations will try it out. This way, we can ensure the project's impact doesn't end after the project.
BE MORE Leadership Programme is an international cooperation project and its core goal is to develop the youth and student organisations of our networks. This will be done in the project in two ways: by cooperation and sharing experiences and creating an online course for youth organisation leaders. There are a lot of organisations who develop leadership skills in youngsters among Europe. From the Estonian perspective, we see that there is not a lot of cooperation with neither Estonian nor European colleagues on this activity. We believe that if there would be more exchange of practices in training youth leaders, the education we could offer would be even better. Another thing we see is that even if there is a lot of material and courses on management and leadership, there isn't any relevant for youth organisations. Our objectives were to create a web e-course on youth organisation leadership with partners that we could use in our existing youth development programmes. The e-course was targeted for youth organisation leaders so that they would all have basic knowledge and skills in organisation management. These objective were met - we created four e-courses to the platform BE MORE. Community http://bemore.community, organised two dissemination events and promoted in our different events and programmes and also on social media. We reached 82 young people with our two dissemination events, the site has about 500 separate visits from all over Europe every month and every course has over 170 enrolled students. The feedback from young people has been positive and everyone has said it is all useful material. This result didn't reach the set results due to the fact that the project financing period was cut a year shorter. We created the e-courses from October 2018 to July 2019 and launched them by the end of July 2019. From July to February 2020 the partners have promoted the courses in their events, programmes and social media. Üliõpilaskonna Sihtasutus organised a bigger promotion event in August 2019 as the Year Conference meeting for student organisations in Tartu, where participants were introduced to the courses with workshops which tackled the BE MORE. Community lesson topics. The partner Landesjugendring Baden-Württermberg held a dissemination event in January 2020 as a conference for young people that tackled also leadership topics and introduced the courses. The courses and BE MORE. Community website has proved to be useful and attractive to youth organisations, an important tool to develop (or also create) a youth organisation, so the partners are willing to continute the cooperation with creating more e-course with next projects.