ViaEUropa - Evaluation report

viaEUropa: evaluation
report
Feasability visit for Youth in Action Programme
Costa da Caparica; 22 ~ 26.02.2012
http://viaeuropa-juventude.blogspot.com

Funding
This project was funded by Youth in Action
Programme:
 Portuguese National Agency for Youth in
Action Programme @ http://juventude.pt
 European Commision @
http://ec.europa.eu/youth

Partners
 The partners of the project were the
following:
o La Vibria [ES]
@ http://www.wix.com/lavibria/en
o Intercultura [FR] @ http://intercultura.fr
o CCPL [LU] @ http://www.ccpl.lu/
o Link [IT] @ http://www.linkyouth.org/
o ATDR [RO] @ http://atdr.ro
o Students' Club [SI] @ http://www.klise-klub.si/
o Youth against AIDS [LV] @ http://www.jpa.lv/

Local Partnerships
 The local partnerships were the
following:
o CM Seixal
o VidaEmprego
o Khapaz
o Restaurante "o Bispo"

Media Partnerships
 The media partnerships were the
following:
o Rádio Baía
o Jornal do Seixal
o Setúbal na Rede

Images VI

For more photos, check out the following link

Final Work – group #1
 Group #1 developed the following work:
o “Creativity4Work” – a project based on a series of
events and meetings organized by young people for
young people to empower them to find a job and will
consist in 6 events;
o “Shoes” – an activity for problem solving, to look at a
problem from different perspectives and to find creative
solutions;
o “Bee hive” – an activity to facilitate the decision-
making process, to facilitate discussions around
different projects and to help an organization to take the
best decision about which project to develop;
o For more information regarding their work, you can see
the description on the online mindmap of the project,
the video synopsis, the online presentation and the
links for the activies “shoes” and “bee hive”.

Final Work – group #2
 Group #2 developed the following work:
o “Hiring! ExEVS wanted!”: 8-14 day youth exchange to
present the EVS as an alternative method of developing the
skill required to get a job and present them as valuable
professional experience;
o “Oppressed much? Meet the boss?”: project for a youth
exchange where the participants experience the process of a
job application, preparating a job interview, presenting skills
and experience as valuable and learning to express
themselves to build self-confidence;
o “No skills? Think again!”: is a project for a youth exchange
where the participants learn how to write a CV, highlighting
the skills in non formal education;
o “Movie it!”: project for a youth exchange where the
participants will participate in activities with the objective of
presenting EVS of Youth in Action programme, mainly with
films made by EVS volunteers describing and documenting
their experience;
o For more information regarding their work, watch the video
synopsis and the online mindmap of the project.

Other results
 Some of the activities were filmed to
produce video tutorials [hosted online @
YouTube]of non formal activities:
o Deixa cair isso que quero sentar-me @
youtu.be/Hv-hxI_I5MQ
o Yia Quizzz! @ youtu.be/e7kuwDVY5j4
o Quem sou eu? @ youtu.be/Q84fsN4If0A
o Bolas a Circular @ youtu.be/7hwt2Sq3R64
o O que é um jovem com menos
oportunidades? @youtu.be/MigAnx2eDJk
o As minhas coisas @ youtu.be/HFBLJBYplNc
 All the activities are @ http://volatin.eu

Evaluation – Activity
“Deep Space”

“Deep Space” II
 This activity consists on a proposal to the
participants to identify their path during a
certain period (in this case during the
feasability visit);
 In a flipchart sheet, there are 4 areas: Earth
(tranquility and familiarity), Sun (excitement
and activeness), Asteroids (Hard and
Difficulty) and Black Hole (Nothingness
and meaningless)
 The participants were asked to draw a line,
corresponding to their path in the visit

“Deep Space” III

2 1

3 4

“Deep Space” IV
 The result is that the area that had
more activity 1) Sun (excitement and
activeness), and after 2) Earth
(tranquility and familiarity) na then there
was 3) Asteroids (Hard and Difficulty)
and 4) the one with less intensity Black
Hole (Nothingness and meaningless)
 The interpretation of the results is that
the global process developed during
the visit was positive, active and safe.

Evaluation – General
overview
 The participants said:
o “ViaEUropa whas a perfect meeting to discuss about new
projects, share impressions about youth unemployment and
specially discover new methodologies to apply in our daily job in
this topic, as time banking and human library.”
o “It had a good idea, but I guess at times it could have been a bit
more clear… It was sad we only had three working days, in more
time, we could do a lot more and clarify more what we want to
do. Maybe I would want a bit more interaction with local
organizations, since this is usually the aim of feasibility visits, but
due to short time of the project it was understandable we could
not to that.”
o “It was a great project - very interesting topic, inspiring
discussions and all in all a very productive seminar.”

Evaluation – Objectives
 In a scale from 1 ~ 5, the average was the following:
o Understand globally the reality of youth unemployment and the
processes of exclusion in Europe: 3
o Reflect and exchange experiences about the different
tools/activities/networks in this field of youth work: 4
o Create activities, projects and networks for the promotion of European
and International activities for young people with less opportunities: 4

5
Understand globally the reality of
youth unemployment and the
processes of exclusion in Europe
4

Reflect and exchange experiences
3 about the different
tools/activities/networks in this field of
youth work
2
Create activities, projects and
networks for the promotion of
1 European and International activities
for young people with less
opportunities
0

Evaluation –
Methodologies
o “The used methodology was diversed, dynamic and creative that
envolves the cooperation of all the participants and of the
organization.”
o “Too wide. We should have worked on something more defined
at the beginning. Defining and selecting common bases to come
up with a shared comprehension is normally a good start on this
kind of meeting.”
o “It was a great project - very interesting topic, inspiring
discussions and all in all a very productive seminar.”

Evaluation – Activities
o Presentation of the participants and organisations: 4
o Presentation of local social projects developed in the Social Network of Seixal: 4
o Visit to the historical centre of Seixal: 5
o Youth in Action Programme – An opportunity?: 4
o Creation and development of ideas in the field of the promotion of European opportunities for
youth in work groups: 4
o Presentation of the final results: 4

5 Presentation of the participants and
organisations

Presentation of local social projects
4 developed in the Social Network of
Seixal
Visit to the historical centre of Seixal
3

Youth in Action Programme – An
2 opportunity?

Creation and development of ideas in
the field of the promotion of European
1 opportunities for youth in work groups
Presentation of the final results

0

Evaluation – Activities’
overview
o “Most of them were adequate to the group, just the different level
of knowledge made difficult some tasks. I really appreciate the
way to present the results using livestream, a very innovative
way that gives new possibilities of visibility.”
o “Not clear... there should have provided us with a common frame
to enable us to share more and come up with more valuable
tools and knowledge regarding the topic and the target group.”
o “I think its a start. A lot has to be done yet, if we want to conclude
the project. We had some time to develop activities and ideas,
but not enough time. Now it actually depends from the whole
group of participants if we will be able to carry on the project and
complete it.”

Evaluation – other
aspects of the project
o Preparation info : 5
o Time Management : 4
o Facilities : 4
o Accomodation : 4
o Food: 4
o Freetime activities: 4

5

4
Preparation info
Time Management
3
Facilities
Accomodation
2 Food
Freetime activities

1

0

Evaluation – Learning
outcomes
o “Besides having practised my english, it was quite
rewarding to discuss and elaborate activities that can be
put in practice by several partners involved in this project.
I have learned with the shared experiences from the
group.”
o “I also got to know very interesting projects and
possibilities during the presentation of local social projects
developed in the Social Network of Seixal.”
o “I keep in mind some ideas that came up along with some
brainstormings, such as living library, non-formal activities
CVs and a few more... and try to imagine for now how
they can evolve and fit in my local reality.”

Evaluation – Results
o “I believe that overall the project has achieved its objective of
brainstorming ideas to improve youth unemployment throughout the EU
and its member countries. The small number of projects drafted reflects
their complexity - a youth initiative spanning over 6 months and an
ambitious 14 day youth exchange with a wide range of nonformal
learning activities would benefit the communities in all participant
countries.”
o “Not satisfying for me... I'm sure that with the local NGOs, the other
Participants and Rato - we could have come up with much better results.
And I do think that "results" should have not been "activities" but a better
knowledge about youth unemployement in Europe and youngsters with
fewer opportunities... to come up later on with stronger activities or
projects but not within the framework of a feasability visit !”
o “They are partial. I think we will have to work a bit more to perfect them.
But regarding the short period of the project, they are good.”

Evaluation – Final
comments
o "I enjoyed the project very much .This was a first training like this
for me and there was a lot of new things to learn. This actually
gave me a good insight on how it is to be at this type of
environment - international youth workers developing new
ideas.”
o “Its a good thing if you want to develop new tools, activities on a
certain topic. For a future similar project, if there would be one in
the future, i would suggest more working days, and more
participants to offer the possibility of working in different groups
during the project and to realize with what kind of people, how
you work best.”
o “I would like to thank the project organization and to all the
participants.”

Evaluation – internal
meeting of Rato – ADCC I
 The conclusions of the promoter are the following:
1. The use of online resources was very effective in the process of
communication and preparing information mainly with technologies like
GoogleDocs and Delicious;
2. The form for the participants enrollment should have had the fields for
insertion of the contacts’ information of the participants in order to
produce automatically the contact list of the participants;
3. For the objectives and expectations, the project had a very short
number of participants;
4. There was also a problem caused with dilemma between the topics
“Youth with fewer opportunities” and “Youth unemployment”. The
activities should have approached more the topic of “Youth
Unemployment” in specific approach;
5. There was a very clear role of every member of the organization team;

Evaluation – internal
meeting of Rato – ADCC II
 The conclusions of the promoter are the following:
6. There weren’t any situations of conflict between the organization team
and the participants;
7. There should have been a more concrete orientation regarding the
actual implementation of the results of the project with the partner
organizations. Nevertheless, Rato – ADCC is going to integrate some
ideas on future Youth in Action projects and activities;
8. The results of the project are according to the objective “Create
activities, projects and networks for the promotion of European and
International activities for young people with less opportunities”;
9. The online mindmap of the project is very effective for the
demonstration of the results of the project;
10. The idea of the video synopsis is effective but the videos produced
should have better quality (mainly regarding its sound) and be more
creative in order to be more appealing;
11. The final clip was effective regarding the chapter of Visibility.

Evaluation – Tag Cloud

This tag cloud is online @ http://bit.ly/viaeuropa-tagcloud

Visibility Activities -
Poster

Visibility Activities - blog
Media Partners

Setúbal na Rede February
26.478 – Visits
21.688 – Unique visitors
40.710 – Page views
March
30.226 - Visitas
24.607 - Unique visitors
48.215 - Page views
Jornal do Seixal 15000 newspapers
Rádio Baia No data available


Blog

Total number of page views 1626
Major sources of traffic
http://rato-adcc.pt
http://facebook.com
http://google.com

Message with most views: “My name is Tina Trdin…”
Page with most views: ViaEUropa

Blog: page views per country

3% Portugal
3% 2% 2% Luxembourg
3%
Romania
7%
Spain
7%
Spain
9% 55%
Slovenia
9% Latvia
Italy
Russia
France

 Media Partners
o Setúbal na Rede [Website]:
o Setúbal na Rede [Facebook Page]:
o Jornal do Seixal [Printed version]:
 Online Social Networks I
o Facebook: profile of Rato – ADCC [1334 friends]  link
o Facebook: group “International” [64 members]  link
o Facebook: group “Associações” [20 members]
 link
o Facebook: group “ Youth Partner Network” [4.566
membros]  link
o Facebook: group “Youth in Action” [3.832 members] 
link

Visibility Activities
 Online Social Networks II
o Facebook: group “Exchanges Netwoork”
[7.145 members]  link
o Facebook: group “Salto Youth Resource
Centres” [1.145 members] link
o Facebook: group “Meetingpoint.evs” [215
members] link
o Facebook: group “Link Youth Altamura” [1.002
members] link
o Facebook: page “Youth in Action Programme”
[764 like it] link

 Online Social Networks III
o Facebook: page “Youth in Action” [1.440 like it]
link
o Facebook: page “Youth in action” [17.509 like
it]  link
o Facebook: page “Portal da Juventude” [4.719
like it]  link
o Facebook: page “Associazione Link”[1.167
like it] link

 Online Social Networks IV
o Twitter: profile “Rato-ADCC” [470 members]
link
o Facebook: page “Volatin.eu” [32 like it]  link
o Facebook: page “OpenEUropa” [163 like it]
link

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