‘Oratory for Leadership Adventure’, OLA Project, is a strategic european partnership focus on the social inclusion and the enlargement of youth Leadership, through a new methodology based on Oratory techniques. The Beneficiaries should be Teenagers from 13 to 18 year old. The Project will be developed in 12 months. Social inclusion is the main objective of the OLA Project. To achieve this goal, Fundación Senara set three Indirect Objectives: • To provide more and equal opportunities for young people in education and the job market • Gender equality • To encourage young people to actively participate in society These are the main objectives of the Youth Strategy within the European Union for 2018. Although The European Union has increased funds directed to these issues, figures show that it is necessary to continue working on it. In the European Youth Event that took place three years ago in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the participants made different proposals to break stereotypes and achieve Equality within Europe. One of the suggestions was to improve the equality amongst educators. This project aims to provide key tools to strength the profile of European Youth Workers and the development of critical thinking; the ability to analyze and the prevention of all types of violence. Therefore OLA is also a project for teenagers, males and females, the future leaders of our communities which would play a decisive role in the European society. The countries that will participate in the consortium are Spain, Croatia, Poland and Slovenia. The work will be done in three lines: one part will be performed by the Institutions, other carry out by the Youth Workers and at the end a third line fulfil by the Students. So the target group will be youth Technicians and teen’s students. First Target: 8 Youth Technicians will develop skills and competence to prevent inequalities, promoting social inclusion. Second Target: 70 Students from four European countries, with the purpose of increasing their leadership talent though Oratory. The transnational nature of the project is the fundamental reason, because it is intended to carry out a methodological guide resulting from the implementation of the project in different European countries.
The Oratory for Leadership Adventure Project , OLA, has been a twelve-month strategic partnership in the field of youth that aims to reinforce the European priority of social inclusion and to strengthen of youth leadership and empowerment. To this end, an innovative methodology based on the technique of Oratory will be developed. Work will be carried out in two ways, on the one hand with youth workers and on the other with young people . The participating countries in the consortium are Spain, Poland, Croatia and Slovenia. Three specific objectives have been established: - To promote the leadership and empowerment of young people through the innovative methodology of public speaking. - To promote gender equality and non-discrimination through the development of competences and skills of young people in pre-adolescent stage. - To train youth workers by developing effective methods that prevent discrimination and promote the critical spirit of young people. The OLA Project has managed to bring together and train more than 70 young people from 4 European countries, 50% of whom are from vulnerable backgrounds, on issues of equality, violence, discrimination and leadership. Also 14 youth workers have received training in the methodology of public speaking, followed in the project. To be able to carry out these results, the following activities are carried out: 1.- 2 Transnational meetings - Kick-off meeting and Final meeting, to coordinate and evaluate the project 2.- Training of trainers in public speaking It was held over four days, at the Senara Foundation headquarters in Madrid, from 14 to 17 May 2020. The purpose was to train 2 members from each institution of the OLA project in the methodology followed throughout the year. These trainers, two from each institution, have been selected by each organization. It was established that all those coming to the training of trainers should have experience in the field of youth They should also have worked with vulnerable groups in order to be able to adapt to the training difficulties that may arise. None of the participants had received specific training in public speaking, except in the case of Senara Foundation, where the participants did have training and previous experience in public speaking. The sessions simulated the four public speaking workshops that were to be given to the young people. In addition during 4 hours the improvisation workshop was given, teaching to the assistants to know how to react in different situations in a fast and effective way, favoring the improvement in the communicative abilities of all the participants. 3.- Replication of Training to other trainers: it was carried out from the end of the previous activity until the beginning of the workshops for the young participants of the OLA project. 4.- four sessions of public speaking workshops for young people The activity is publicized in each country, the young people interested are interviewed, and the registration is made. It is taken into account that half of the participants must belong to groups at risk of exclusion. The training workshops begin. All the countries have had three speech sessions, during the months of June, July and August Once the theoretical and practical speech sessions were over, most of the participants chose to prepare a topic with their partner on equality, violence, discrimination or leadership, in order to participate in a national contest. The 10 best exhibitions (in the case of Slovenia 5), would be awarded with a 5 days exchange in Warsaw (Poland), where they would have the opportunity to represent their exercises in English, in front of an international audience. 5.- Youth mobility in Poland From 3 to 7 September, 35 students (accompanied by 7 monitors), carried out an international youth exchange in Warsaw (Poland). During these five days, the participants got to know the cities of Warsaw and Croatia, visited different museums, had two conferences on leadership and knowledge of the country and finally during two days they made presentations in English, of the speech topics they had presented in the competitions of their countries. All this was combined with activities. After the evaluation made by the young people, where they had a remarkable high, it was seen the resounding success of the oratory methodology as a means of learning. 6.- Documentation produced throughout the project: Website; analysis of equality, violence, discrimination and leadership; public speaking decalogue; good practice guide; audiovisual documentation. All this material can be found on the results platform and on the project's website. All the partners are committed to giving continuity to this project, with the same method and with other topics of interest.