The project “NGEnvironment” project emerges as a relevant contribution to the EU's horizontal priorities of improving relevant and high-level basic and transversal competences of EU citizens, in the framework of adult education and in the perspective of lifelong learning, as it aims to empower new leaders to engage in changeby improving entrepreneurial, foreign language and digital competences and promoting employability, socio-educational and professional development, through the action of NGOs.
By empowering NGO leaders, NGEnvironment will contribute to improving/extending the provision of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of low-skilled adults to acquire literacy and entrepreneurship skills, with the recognition of these skills.
NGEnvironment will be specifically tailored to the adult audience, promoting social cohesion, stimulating talent and taking into account their specific needs/concerns, and providing new learning approaches through a holistic, participatory and motivating pedagogical process that will ultimately result in the development of many key competences with a long-term effect on active European citizenship in favour of sustainability.
This project is supported in the frame of the Erasmus+ European programme.
Partners
SOCIETY for ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION of KORINTHIA
Actions
The main actions for this project are:
Initial research report to be conducted in each country to define the state of the art, establish general guidelines and inform all development actions of the project.
Two training packages, one pedagogical, aimed at NGO mentors who will welcome new potential NGO leaders into the immersion programme, and the other to specifically train new adult NGO leaders who promote a set of basic skills.
Online platform containing all relevant information of the project, hosting a repository of results, as well as the observatory of associated NGOs to show best practices and models to follow.
A set of engagement tools, including paper, online and audiovisual communication channels, ensuring a valorisation framework and a wide scope of the project and motivating participation.
Instructive videos with NGO best practices and social impacts to provide a framework of models or examples to support the valorisation of the project. A video documentary will also be produced to trace the history of the project's development.
A "survival guide for NGO foundation and funding" will be made available to further train and instruct potential new NGO leaders, as well as a layperson's report explaining the rationale, objectives, main findings and case studies resulting from the project as a whole.
A policy paper explaining why a change in policy approach to NGO support might be relevant; the policy options available and the advantages and disadvantages of each option.
Finally, the guidance document will recommend a course of action based on the experiences and lessons learned during the NGEnvironment project, based on a more institutional/police oriented perspective.
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