GET INVOLVED THROUGH PEER MENTORING Modules : web tutorials structure and content

1. GET INVOLVED THROUGH PEER MENTORINGModules : web tutorials structure and content InVOLve vasiliki tsekoura ANKARA APRIL 2012

2. What -1 • Being active as volunteer in a social context depends not only in your inner force . As a social practice in a modern chaotic society needs a Roadmap on conceptual and practical elements . The INVOLVE partners decided to organize in a series of 4 Modules some information coming either from • literature , • policy, • academics and/or mainly from • real practice in terms of case studies ,interviews , warming up techniques , real stories and everything reflects the human experience as active involvement through peer mentoring. vasiliki tsekoura ANKARA APRIL 2012

3. - 2 • In this frame , the Modules can work not only • as educational material but more as • a vehicle for Motivation of Peers so to become active in sharing within a context of reference . While most of these materials are meant to be used in a training context, as a whole they are, however,not designed as a complete seminar or course on networking, but rather • as a collection of stimuli for four different purposes • introduction to Social Economy as social and political tool for activation and particiaption • needs identification - obstacles and constraints , social representations ‘Volunteer’ • Good practices on motivating adults to become volunteers. • The peer mentoring strategy Means of delivery : INVOLVE website+ linkage to partners Websites vasiliki tsekoura ANKARA APRIL 2012

4. Modules – title and content • Module 0 “ Social Initiatives through Social Economy Approach’ • Module 1 “ What a Volunteer means : terms , concepts and representations” • Module 2‘ motivation and warming up practices’ • Module 3‘ peer mentoring as vehicle for active involvement’ vasiliki tsekoura ANKARA APRIL 2012

5. Access to Modules • Through website www.involve.euproject • Through partners website with specific reference to partners language [ tranlation of basic information ] • Open to all possible beneficiaries • In accesible form [ see next – model of webformat ] vasiliki tsekoura ANKARA APRIL 2012

6. Model 1 vasiliki tsekoura ANKARA APRIL 2012

7. Model 2 http://www.networks-in-education.eu/index.php?id=104 vasiliki tsekoura ANKARA APRIL 2012

8. INVOLVE Modules structure and training approach Module 0 “Social Initiatives through Social Economy Approach’ • Objectives → • To map the types of the organizations • To understand the way of functioning • To understand the principles in organisational , financial and operational terms • To combine the volunteering approach with an opportunity for team working ,collective practicing , social solidarity and goal oriented strategy for common good • To reflect on policies behind in European , national , local level and become critical on practices • To learn about creativity for good • To invent ways to be innovative with peers as active citizens vasiliki tsekoura ANKARA APRIL 2012

9. Module 0 : approach INVOLVE What → • By get informed through new knowledge and becoming critical on specific topics relevant to the field • By developing specific competences useful for social inclusion and sense of belonging as an active citizen • By changing or enriching the social sensitivity and activation attitude against selfish , phobia phenomena and mistrust • Specifically : vasiliki tsekoura ANKARA APRIL 2012

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11. INVOLVEModule 0 : approach How → through : EU policies texts collection from referred countries – INVOLVE partners National situation references and state of the Art Good practices selection Seminars on topics as : Participation , Motivation , reflection , social creativity Interviewing ‘active citizens’ Tools for reflection : questionnaires , feedback tools , narratives – diaries Web sites from global experience and practice vasiliki tsekoura ANKARA APRIL 2012

12. INVOLVEModule 0 : structure vasiliki tsekoura ANKARA APRIL 2012

13. QUESTIONS ON MODULES • LANGUAGE issue • EXTEND of Modules • MATERIAL from partners • TIME sharing • FINAL format • LEADER per Module • Other…… All partners have to decide together how to share work within modules Who collects the material and who will be the coordinator of each module [ each partner decide to present the structure of 1 Module and bring for discussion and agreement ] When to finalize How to promote / disseminate vasiliki tsekoura ANKARA APRIL 2012

14. Finally thank you for your attention and wish to all friends and partners A fruitful learning process within InVOLve vasiliki tsekoura ANKARA APRIL 2012