Sparking Change: Enhancing Community Impact in European Solidarity Corps Activities

Gain insights into the communities you serve and the impact you aim to achieve. Learn about effective tools and methods on how to measure and enhance your project's community impact. Widen your knowledge about how to set up an action plan and take concrete first steps to elevate your project's effectiveness through trying out tools and being inspired by peers.

Aims and objectives

• Volunteering and solidarity project organizers or participants will have the opportunity to:
• Gain a better and deeper understanding of community impact in general
• Learn how to enhance community impact of their projects
• Get a better connection with the ESC projects
• Get insight in concrete tools (i.e. ImpactTool, design thinking methodology) for implementing, creating and measuring in your own context  
• Learn how other organisations are creating impact
• Create a network of impact-oriented partners

Methodology

This training course uses non-formal learning methods. The ImpactTool and the design thinking methodology will be introduced as ways to ideate activities to improve community impact in ESC projects. 

Participants profile

• Active in the daily implementation of volunteering and/or solidarity projects from European Solidarity Corps Programme
• Youth worker who supports young people in participating in European Solidarity Corps activities
• Volunteering ESC Project coordinator/manager motivated to sparkle change in their community through their work
• Mentor, tutor, or coach of European volunteers and/ or informal groups of young people

All participants should be older than 18 years and be able to communicate in English. 

We will happily discuss with you your support and/or accessibility needs and meet them to the best of our abilities.  

Unless specified otherwise, the hosting NA or SALTO of this offer will organise the accommodation and covers the costs for accommodation and food.

Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries, Partner Countries Neighbouring the EU

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This project is financed by the participating National Agencies (NAs) of the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme. The participation fee varies from country to country. Please contact your National Agency or SALTO Resource Centre (SALTO) to learn more about the participation fee for participants from your country.

Please contact your NA or SALTO in order to know whether they would support your travel costs. If yes, after being selected, get in touch with your NA or SALTO again to learn more about the overall procedure to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses.