Between 9-11 December 2016, YMCA Romania Federation representatives – Alina Coman (president of YMCA Baia Mare, Romanian teacher in EVS projects) and Mirela Zigler (teacher) took part in an international seminar in Soest, Netherlands called East West Dialogues 2016.

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The organisations that participated in this EVS Partnership Building Event were: Asset Based Community Development Innovation Center (Armenia), NEOTON (Bulgaria), Eufemia (Italy), Scambieuropei (Italy), ADVIT (Moldova), Stichting UcDean (The Netherlands), Semper Avanti (Poland), ZSO-Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. KEN (Poland), YMCA Romania and Young Initiative (Romania), ADEL (Slovakia), Arrabal-AID (Spain), Inter Europa Rioja (Spain), Villafranca de los Barros City Council (Spain), Canakkale Koza Genclik Dernegi (Turkey), Governorate of Mugla European Union Relations Office (Turkey), 4 Youth (Ukraine) and Center for European Initiatives (Ukraine).

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East West Dialogues was a partnership building and EVS quality improvement seminar which aimed to set up high quality EVS projects among Western and Eastern countries.

The objectives of the training were:
• To get to know the possibilities of cooperation between Program Countries and Eastern Partnership countries within the Erasmus+ Program
• To understand better EVS project management
• To develop the necessary knowledge, skills and attitude to organize a successful EVS project with a special focus on youth participation
• To bring together people working with youngsters in order to create new project ideas of EVS projects within Key Action 1 of the Erasmus + Program

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“During the program all the participants from 11 countries developed together a Quality Assurance Toolkit, consisting of practical tools and templates for drafting partnership agreements, activity agreements, recruitment of volunteers, mediation and evaluating EVS projects. It was a great opportunity for us to improve our skills necessary in the process of implementation of EVS projects and strongly recommend the participation in future mobilities”- Alina Coman.

You can find the Toolkit here:toolkit-evs-partnership-building-event-east-west-dialogues-2016“>toolkit-evs-partnership-building-event-east-west-dialogues-2016

The project is funded by Erasmus Plus Program. 16683080_10210274346287445_1522274995_n