Increasing Mobility 1.

This project serves a direct need that we - with our partners - have realized long ago but did not have the financial capacity to organize it yet. Introductory & networking event for stakeholders. Brochures, leaflets, and emails are not enough for directing the decision makers attention to the V4 potential. They need to be there personally and network with peers and decision makers. Headmasters and stakeholders will have the opportunity to see the reality in all V4 countries in person and through presentations. Since they will be on the spot from Friday we start with a networking dinner. After organizing many events we came to the conclusion that the first and last dinner is very important just like the breaks. Sessions and panels are too formal an do not lead to deep networking. In our events, we will start by welcoming the participants at a dinner and create an atmosphere for networking. The day of the event will be full of ideas, discussions. Unlike in usual setting, participants will sit in a circle and share their inputs. Present their schools, their ideas, their needs. A representative of entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to promote the V4 potential and the readiness of entrepreneurs to host students from V4 states. The coordinating organizations will have the chance to network, share their insights and to conclude all the daily activities outcomes and summarize it in the two pages paper that will promote the V4 potential. https://csermelyngoszeged.wixsite.com/visegrad

A1: Trainings for local NGOs and active communities.

To provide information and gain practical skills and knowledge necessary for civic activism and participation. The trainings will consist from the following parts: Foundations of self-government: • The essence of the local self-government (overview of European Charter of Local Self-Government); • Property, finances of the local self-government; • Local self-governance and executive bodies; • Legal acts of local self-government bodies; • Local economic development. Methodologies for the needs assessment • Methods of sociological survey (quantitative methods, interviews, focus groups); • SWOT - Analysis; • SMART - Analysis; • Data analysis (data preparation, descriptive statistics, analytical statistics); • Research report (structure, style, logical sequence). Civic Monitoring • Essence and importance of civic monitoring; • Legal monitoring; • Economic monitoring; • Administrative monitoring. Mechanism of civic participation • The petition; • Attendance and citizens’ participation in meetings of local councils; • Accountability and reporting to citizens by the local councils; • Community Halls and their functions; • Local authorities, rules and procedures for publishing public information; • Procedures for requesting public information. Training agenda might be adjusted after summarizing the survey results, should other challenges be identified. Trainings will take place in the target regions – in Rustavi (Kvemo Kartli) and Mtskheta (Mtskheta-Mtianeti region). Trainings will last two days each. The trainees will include 15-20 participants with mixed professional backgrounds and from different NGOs and community groups/active citizens. Public lectures/workshops for youth on active involvement in policy-making to raise awareness. In total, 8 public lectures/workshops will be organized in public and private universities. http://www.engagement.ge/

Showcasing of the project at TaBook Festival

TaBook Festival is festival of small publishers. The aim of festival is to show that the Czechoslovak state was a varied mix of different nations that left a deep trace at history and which, unfortunately had gone away irretrievably from our country. The Festival's mission makes it the right place to promote our project. http://folkowisko.gorajec.info/