Our main goal was to build a long-term, sustainable German-Czech partnership at eye level and to make the process of establishing such an international cooperation partnership transferable to other organisations. Furthermore, we wanted to develop new, digitally supported methods for getting involved in intercultural youth work and further qualify full-time and voluntary staff in their intercultural and digital skills.
We met a new partner in the Czech Republic, similar to our organisation, who was interested in working with us. We wanted to get to know this co-operation partner, including the cultural and structural differences, and adapt the processes to each other in order to make the partnership sustainable. We saw LA2 Small Scale as a good opportunity to start the cooperation at the level of the organisations and their experts without having to concentrate on other tasks (international youth exchange) at the same time. Furthermore, we wanted to support more volunteers in acquiring intercultural skills and motivate them to work in the international field, for example to accompany a youth exchange abroad. In order to keep our common target group in mind, we wanted to explore new, digitally supported ways to reach young people and motivate them to travel abroad. Both organisations and the volunteers lacked the necessary tools and knowledge to do this.