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We volunteer for Europe
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

“We volunteer” is a project based on developing active citizenship by involving the community and encouraging students to be a change in the European community, making awareness of the benefits of cooperation and skills in working with others and common challenges and the positive impact all volunteering actions and encouring schools and young people to volunteer in their communities.This project intends to develop volunteering competences among European students as well as creating a common sense of European Citizenship based on understanding and being tolerant towards the difference between cultures, people and religions. Besides,We Volunteer!" will serve to raise awareness about the value and importance of volunteering and promote students’ volunteering activities throughout 2015-2017 among the partner schools. Our partnership consists of Turkey, Portugal, Romania, Italy, Greece, Poland and Spain. All the partner schools were chosen among our previous Comenius project. The particating organizations aims at reinforcing cooperation between communities and schools.We aim at making the community aware of the problem and to actively take part in the solution. In the different stage of the Project we will have the participation of stakeholders, especially voluntary organizations and local authorities of each school.They will play an important role in international meeting,research,thematic visits,trainings and organizing community events to raise awareness on volunteering. The education policy of the project will address to increase entrepreneurship and leadership skills ; to develop transversal skills such as multilangualism,digital skills and innonative students-centred pedegogical approaches; to contribute the attainment of young people particularly, those at the risk of early school leaving and with low basic skills by increasing school motivation, understanding the importance of personal responsibility, focusing on meaningful learning. All activities were designed to achieve the objectives of the project having in mind the need to develop entrepreneurship and leadership skills (making research,video recording,organizing voluntary days,voluntary projects for e-volunteer bank, local campaign) ICT skills (facebook,youtube,twinspace,e-volunteer bank,Stop motion film, Podcast, Audio story book for visually impaired children,Tv shot about Project,Photoshop workshop ( preparing bookmarks/postcards),Posters on volunteering “endangered animals)citizenship (Preparing Animal shelter for birds and other animals,-Celebrating “World Earth Day” by cleaning the forest,Planting trees “Erasmus plus trees “Mini Olympic 2015 “Run for Olimpic values”Charity days,Inter cultural day-charity sales, Volutary days) linguistic (all tasks will be performed in English) and European cultural dimension and European İdentity(transnational meeting,cultural performance of the schools,culture,traditions..) Monitoring and evaluation are indispensible tools of project managements to assess the queality of the activities selected and of the results expected. In order to ensure the quality of the project, partners are expected to know about how to manage a project. In this project, all of the coordinators are experienced on project managements and want to work together again thanks to managing well, collobrating efficiently and group harmony.Project coordinator (Turkey)coordinated a lot of e-twinning project,two school partnership projects ,2 youth project and joined EU project managements trainings both in Netherland (organized by Quarter mediation) and Turkey ( by Turkish NA). Portugese and Romanian partners have degrees in Managements of Educational Training and Administration and coordinated a wide range of projects such as youth,Grundtving,Comenius,Erasmus+. Other partners have also a long experience in particiating life long learning European projects.Motivation and qualification of the partners will quarantee the quality of the project. Activities,distribution of the tasks , dates of the meetings were defined clearly and all together during the extra workshop in Poland so that the results will be achieved on time and to the budget. Monitoring and evaluation will be used in the continuous process of assesing the progress made towards stated objectives, so that the gaps between the original project planband the actual achievements can be identified and corrected. Because our project is based on open cooperation between all partners, we will work on dissemination work package under Poland and Italy coordination.The Italian and Polish partner will be responsible with making of a dissemination portfolio and monitoring of the realized dissemination activities. Visibility and sustainability of the project will be assured by all the dissemination activities such as project newspapers,facebookpage,e volunteer bank,project presentations in local,regional,national, or European events even ıf three years of the project end up.
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