Conference – Symposium – Forum
24-25 April 2020 | WEB-FORUM, Germany
With our WEB-Forum wish to create a space for a dialogue among practitioners (experts, youth workers, social activists, volunteers) from around Europe involved in ESC-Volunteering projects facing the challenges around COVID-19. Register please till 19.4.
We wish to create a space for a dialogue among practitioners (experts, youth workers, social activists, volunteers) from around Europe involved in ESC-Volunteering projects, for:
- exploring how to support solidarity and mutual learning among volunteers and local community in the time of COVID19, with a special focus on young people with fewer opportunities
- sharing best practices, which could be directly adapted in the project facing a crisis with isolation and virus.
- as a result finding solutions to deal with ESC volunteering projects in the present situation
- harvesting impulses how to work constructively with the present situation, how to monitor it, take lessons, evaluate it, and plan future steps
- creating a networking space for mutual support among the different actors (coordinators, mentors, volunteers, stakeholders)
- sharing good practice examples on how to continue the implementation of ESC volunteering project during pandemic times
- developing strategic solutions for our organisations, collecting recommendations for stakeholder (NA and SALTO), empowering volunteers for networking
We aim with the forum to:
- develop a common ground of quality for future network activities within the European Solidarity Program
- raise awareness of how to foster the inclusion dimension and accessibility of our activities with young people
- develop better understanding of how to increase the impact of our activities on local and international level
- create a space for sharing good practices, and exchange our experience to grow together within future partnerships
Topics/Questions:
- how could we use resources, skills and knowledge from the project to deal with the new curcumstances: dealing with uncertainty, fear and motivation of the volunteers – how to support?
- how to restructure project activities according to the circumstances, remaining the solidarity dimension, digital solutions, local community support
- formal aspects of the project implementation (finances, changed duration, recrutation…)
- how to keep the volunteers learning process going on in times of Corona-crisis
- change of activities/ space for reflection/recognition of learning/ digital learning
- vision for the time after the Corona-Pandemia – how ESC can support the restart
APPLY COURSE
Program Elements:
- solidarity – inclusion dimension
- best practices from the projects which could be relevant in present situation (using appreciative inquiry method and the Art of Hostig Approach )
- developing support structures (for Voluneters, Organsitions, Local Communtiy)
- innovation and flexibility in project implementation
- non-formal learning ONLINE (explore tools and methods)
- project management in an uncertain perspective of the future
- visioning and design thinking for project development and future partnerships
Practical Info:
dates: 24./25. of April 2020
place: WEB-CONFERENCE
costs: registration, materials and conference expenses are fully covered