Our OBJECTIVES within the framework of this small-scale partnership were: 1. To make participation in our local projects more accessible to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds through identifying and overcoming barriers to participation. 2. To develop effective strategies that enable local projects to become stepping stones for increased engagement at the European level, in particular for young people with refugee and migrant backgrounds. 3. To bring a greater European dimension to our youth work at the local level through regular exchange – in terms of ideas, practices and also mobilities – between staff and participants involved in Lernlabor and NGO Logos' local projects. 4. To create the foundations – in terms of organisational experience, professional development, and high quality outputs which will showcase our capacities to potential partners – for following up this collaboration in the frame of a future cooperation partnership
As a newcomer in Erasmus+, and in the context of the Corona pandemic, we wanted to strengthen our partnership with an organisation with who we had cooperated in the past, with a high degree of satisfaction, and to deepen our institutional contacts beyond the management level. As a more experienced partner, we wanted to draw on the knowledge of NGO Logos Polska to develop our capacities, particularly in the framework of Key Action 2, regarding this project as a stepping stone to developing and participating in larger cooperation partnerships in the future. Another need that this project was to address was the development of our respective local projects and a cross-fertilisation of knowledge concerning our respective local target groups, namely Ukrainian and West African migrants. Moreover, we hoped to create synergies between our local ESC project and the Erasmus+ programme, whereby the local projects could serve as stepping stones for engaging our target groups in our international activities in the Erasmus+ frame. Lastly, we wanted to pilot tools that we were developing in arts and culture and outdoor education, gain feedback from our international peers, share best practice examples and develop follow-up projects.