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The Mentoring Report is the main result of the fourth activity of 1st TIP-PM consortium: it is a collection of "Guidelines and scenario for implementation mentoring and e-mentoring systems supporting international cooperation initiation and developing in the 3rd sector adult learning organisations".

The general aim is to deliver ready-to-use mentoring programmes, both for the adult education organisations managers and first-time international project managers.

The Mentoring Report is now translated and available for the consultation and download in English and also in Austrian, Danish, English, Hungarian, Italian and Polish.

Feel free to read and dowload them!

English Austrian (in German) Danish Hungarian Italian Polish

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The European Conference "International cooperation. How to start it well?" valorising the key outcomes of  the “First-time international projects realisers support network” project took place - paralell in Tyniec (Poland) and online 21st – 22nd of September 2020.

There were participants from Poland, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Austria, Portugal and Latvia taking part in the event. Thank you for your active participation, sharing ideas, experiences and networking!

We do hope that the tools and solutions presented, as well as the new contacts made,  would be useful for your work as the international projects realisers.

The space for adding your ideas concerning the FIRST Network portal, the FIRST Network and international cooperation in general will be opened by October 1st. Please feel free to add more ideas HERE!

Below you will find the conference presentations for downloading.

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The European Conference presentations (PDFs):

Introduction to the project “First-time international project realisers support network”, being realized in the period August 2018 – September 2020 by five civil society organisations from Poland, Italy, Hungary, Denmark and Austria.
Speaker: Agnieszka Dadak, Project manager, Foundation of Alternative Educational Initiatives, Poland.

“Successes and challenges. Report I on international projects management in the civil society sector of adult education”.
Speaker: Aron Weigl, EDUCULT - Institute of Cultural Policy and Cultural Management, Austria.

“Key competences and needs for support. Report II on international projects management in the civil society sector of adult education”.
Speaker: Hans Jørgen Vodsgaard, Interfolk, Institut for Civilsamfund, Denmark.

Introduction: A new International Support Network for the first time international projects realisers.
Speakers: Rafał Dadak and Jerzy Kraus, Foundation of Alternative Educational Initiatives, Poland.

The FIRST Network Portal. The webpage dedicated to first-time international project realisers.
Speaker: Agnieszka Dadak, Foundation of Alternative Educational Initiatives, Poland.

“Guidelines and scenario for implementation mentoring and e-mentoring systems supporting international cooperation initiation and developing in the 3rd sector adult learning organisations”.
Speaker: Lorenza Lupini, Cooperativa Sociale COOSS MARCHE ONLUS scpa, Italy.

The Manual for national trainings & The Manual for European trainings of the first-time project managers and organization leaders involved in international cooperation.
Speaker: Marianna Labbancz, Folk High School Association Surrounding Budapest, Hungary.

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It is our pleasure to invite all interested in international cooperation and lifelong learning to the international conference valorising the key outcomes of the “First-time international projects realisers support network” project.

The Conference will take place 21 - 22 of September 2020 at The Guest House of the Tyniec Abbey in Tyniec (next to Kraków). The conference starts at 1 pm September 21st and ends at 3 pm September 22nd.

The aim of the conference is to capitalise the 2 – year long cooperation of five civil society organisations from five European countries: Poland, Italy, Hungary, Austria and Denmark.

During the conference the following main outcomes of the project will be presented and discussed:
- The Multilateral Survey Report on good practices and success stories at supporting international projects managers in the adult education civil society organisations.
- The Multilateral Research Report on key competences of international project managers in the adult education civil society.
- The ‘SUPPORT PORTAL’ for the first time international projects realisers.
- The mentoring and e-mentoring system for the first-time international project realisers.
- The training course curricula and open educational resources for the first time international projects realisers.

Last but not least, during the conference, a network of civil society organizations representing the adult education sector – The FIRST Network - will be presented. The aim of the FIRST Network will be to contribute to strengthening the capacity of these organizations to work internationally, enhancing innovativeness and the ability to adapt to changes in the modern world.

The conference programme.

To register to the conference, please fill in the form available here: Register to the conference!
Registrations to the conference will be opened by September 15th, 23:59 CET.

If you would like to participate in the conference, but are unable to join us in Kraków, we offer you the possibility to participate actively online.
To register to the conference online, please fill in the form available here: Register for online participation!

** In case if the epidemic situation caused by Covid-19 in Europe worsens, the conference may take place online only.

There were ten organisations representatives from five partner countries invited to take part in testing the mentoring process designed to support the first-time international projects realisers in planning and developing their first international projects.

The mentoring pilots were realised between October 2019 and May 2020, in all the five partner countries: Poland, Italy, Denmark, Austria and Hungary.

The experiences and guidelines for those, who would like to implement mentoring systems in their organisations are described in the report, "Guidelines and scenario for implementation mentoring and e-mentoring systems supporting international cooperation initiation and developing in the 3rd sector adult learning organisations".
The general aim of this report is to deliver ready-to-use mentoring programmes, both for the adult education organisations managers and first-time international project managers.

The Guidelines and mentoring scenarios will be available in English and in 5 national languages of the partnership: Polish, Italian, German, Danish and Hungarian.

The aim of the national pilot training courses was to develop and test courses programmes for the two respective groups:
1. The first-time international project managers active in the 3rd sector adult learning organisations,
2. The managers/management bodies members in adult learning organisations planning to realise international cooperation.

The pilot training courses were realised, for the two abovementioned groups, in all five partner countries:
- The training courses in Italy took place between 5th and 17th of December 2019 in Ancona. The courses were organised by Cooperativa Sociale COOSS MARCHE ONLUS scpa, Italy.
- The training courses in Hungary took part 17th of January 2020 and 31st of January 2020 in Erdőkertes. The courses were organised by Folk High School Association Surrounding Budapest, Hungary.
- The training courses in Poland took part 7th - 8th of February 2020 in Kraków. The courses were organised by Foundation of Alternative Educational Initiatives, Poland.
- The training courses in Austria took part 28th - 29th of February 2020 in Vienna. The courses were organised by EDUCULT - Institute of Cultural Policy and Cultural Management, Austria.
- The training courses in Denmark took part 29^th of February – 1^st of March in Copenhagen. The courses were organised by Interfolk, Institut for Civilsamfund, Denmark.

At the moment the Partnership is working on the National Courses Curricula Compendium - a handbook, which will describe the process of preparation of the courses, courses programmes, challenges and solutions, lessons learned. The handbook is to be useful for all interested in planning and designing training courses dedicated to the first-time international projects realisers. The handbook will be ready - and presented on this webpage - in September 2020.

The Curricula will be available in English and in 5 national languages of the partnership: Polish, Italian, German, Danish and Hungarian.

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One of the possibilities of finding international partners is joining European networks working in the field of interests of your organisation. The European Network of Cultural Centers (ENCC) unites local, regional and national networks across the European Union. The ENCC is a community of 54 members that represents over 5,000 cultural centers from at least 24 countries. All ENCC members are active in the cultural field and share the same values: cultural equality - interculturalism - cultural democratisation - active citizenship through participation in cultural activities. By joining the ENCC, they are all willing to network as well as to exchange information, knowledge and best practices with the other members. ENCC priority is to empower the more than 5,000 cultural centers that it represents, as well as their communities through actions linked to capacity building, networking and advocacy.
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