Our goals
during this seminar were to improve the knowledge, experience and skills for
young people on the topic of DEOR for
YiA projects.
More specifically
we aimed to achieve the next results:
1. Sharing of their own experience, get inspired
by exchange best practice and learn from bad experiences.
2. Creating a better understanding concept and
framework of DEOR
3. Promote a better understanding and ideas about
specifically the exploitation results not only dissemination.
4. Give the participants more practical skills on
making a good deor.
5. Understanding of obstacles and how to overcome
them when implementing DEOR in practise.
6. Understanding of DEOR as part of project
design (including youthpass)
7. Increased knowledge about practical
application and risks and benefits of DEOR activities.
8. Creation of a common platform (blog) with
information about and results of the seminar and where people can share
materials before, during and after seminar.
9. Network creating between participants
We are happy with the fulfilment of these aims
as you can also read from the comments in the detailed program. Also the
results of the questionnaire generally support statement that the desired
results are fulfilled. This being said, the learning of the participants
happened on different levels and where some of the people learned mostly about
one aspect, then others again about something else depending on their previous
experience since the group was quite diverse. The networking did not seem
something that was so important for the people during the seminar. There was
ample opportunity during the organisations market and in informal moments and
the need seemed to be fulfilled so therefore we decided to skip a final session
about partnership building that was originally planned for the last day.
Flow.
In the end of the training the participants
stated that during the training they felt the beginning was a bit slow and the
Wednesday was quite full but that they understood the logic of it and why it
was planned like this. As trainers we agree that in retrospective the first day
(Tuesday) could have been a bit more challenging and deeper into the background
of DEOR. Since the target group was so different we felt it was needed to start
of slower to get everybody on the same level before diving deep into the
subject.
Something else we changed was the amount of
workshops. Originally there were 4 workshops planned but since there were not
as many participants as we planned and everybody was very interested in all of
them we decided to do the social media workshop separate and afterwards the
video and public speaking one parallel followed by a presentation of grassroots
comics the next day.