Youth urban action Kick off meeting

Youth urban action: Developing urban spaces

2022-1-AT01-KA210-YOU-000084879

The Kickoff meeting, scheduled from 06th to 08th December 2022 and hosted by the Austrian partner Service Civil International Österreich (SCI Austria) in Vienna, was assisted by 5 persons representing all project partners.

The agenda of this kick-off-meeting was agreed previously and focused mainly on the followings:

  1. Getting to know the partners 

2. Project Presentation

3. Our Cooperation from proposal to action 

4. Tasks and Responsibilities

5. Communication and Visibility

6. First ideas for the manual and follow up events

7. learning activity (LTTA) in January

8. Overall project coordination and partnership agreements

Meet the team

Andrea Loddo

SCI Austria

Stefano Gregoriani

Urban Center

Umut Suvari

Gençlik ve Değişim Derneği

Sima* Jako

BuWa

Antonio Horno

Creator

  1. Partners presented their organizations according to the following questions: What are the main activities and topics; Your role in the organization; How many people work with it; Why did you join this project; What are your connections to the topic; What else shall we know.
  2. An overall presentation of the project including objectives, activities and all project phases with the chronogram. ->Find attached the project presentation 
  3. In order to kick off the project and move the cooperation from proposal to action, the partners went close to each activity and relative phases:
  4. We have agreed to share tasks and responsibilities among the partners as follow:
    • SCI Austria / Overall coordination (coordination, setting ups meetings, prepare mid-term and final reports)
    • Associazione Urban Center / organize the training activity and communication
    • Creator / Coordination of the local event; prepare the website
    • GEDED / Coordinate the online event; open the facebook page
    • BuWa / Facilitation and coordination of the toolkit 
  5. Regarding the project communication, visibility and dissemination we have agreed that the  partners are responsible for the local visibility and dissemination among their channels and networks taking care about the visibility of the E+ programme and the donor. Therefore there will be some materials prepared and shared by Urban Center under the supervision of SCI Austria to be used for general communication and visibility of the overall project. Creator will be responsible for creating the website and GEDED will open a facebook page. 
  6. First ideas for the development of educational materials (manual) and for the follow up events were discussed. Timeline for preparing the toolkit is 7 months between 01.02 and 31.08.2023.
  7. We would like to prepare a printed version and a pdf/digital version with interactive parts. The main focus will be youth work on urban development accompanied by a booklet with concrete examples. Contents of the Manual will include:
    • An introduction with a theoretical part (urban regeneration, inequalities, Eu policy and programmes, bottom-up process and approaches, urban youth goals, how to make projects urban&local)  
    • Methods (for urban projects, engaging youths and volunteers, cooperating with authorities, raising awareness)
    • Good practices (Eu diverse examples,links to the project
    • Outcomes from our follow up events
    • Further informations (links to online materials, bibliographie) 
  8. The Learning activity (LTTA) will be hosted by the Urban center in Capoterra, a town near Cagliari on 15-21 January. The training will have one indoor activity part in the venue and two days of outdoor workshops plus one indoor lab in Cagliari. Here below the drafted Training programme as proposed:  
  9. For the overall project coordination and partnership agreements we have agreed to have an online meeting each two months to update each other regarding project progress and relevant and important project matters such as main changes, issues, obstacles and related questions. The partners will use emails to communicate and in certain cases also by phone for fast communication with the project coordinator. A shared folder in google drive is prepared by the coordinator and made open for each partner in order to store, share documents and edit content materials. In the last part we have discussed our partnership agreement with a main focus on the financial responsibilities of each partner about keeping accurate track of project expenses, documentation of visibility and dissemination activities done by partners.

Thank you for joining us in our journey to empower youth and transform urban spaces. Stay tuned for more updates and exciting development