2.2 People-To-People Networking

Project objectives are promotion of young people's participation in representative democracy and civil society through joint creation of an effective model of student parliament, based on best practices of booth countries and abroad, preparation of human resources, technical support and networking; awareness raising about youth problems and youth potential by implementation of cross-border youth network initiatives, generated and designed by students parliaments and jointly implemented and creation of a cross-border network of students parliaments in the whole border region.

Activities through the objective will be fulfilled are: research of Student Self-governance in Bulgarian-Serbian Border Region in order to identified needs and best practices; development of a Common methodology for Student Self-governance; creation of Virtual Community of Practice (VCoP) – web-tool for networking; selection of participating student parliaments/schools; training of youth workers and youth leaders on the base of Methodology previously developed; training of student parliaments and development of network initiatives using VCoP; implementation of exchange visits – youth network initiatives; conclusion forum implementation for reporting, evaluation and future planning and publications – for expert community and for general public in both countries.

Expected results are: one joint research of current situation, needs and best practices in student self-governance in whole border region implanted and a report produced and published; a common Methodology for development of student self-governance created and published; 24 youth workers (school staff members) and 24 youth leaders (representatives of students parliaments) from 12 schools (6 per country) trained on the base of Methodology; 200 students, members of students parliaments trained in youth leadership (approximately 100 per country); one network web-site developed based on the conception of (virtual) Community of Practice – VCoP; min. 6 network initiatives/projects developed by participating school parliaments through VCoP; 3 youth network initiatives implemented through cross-border exchange visits; one cross-border network of students parliament created; 200 collection of materials from the project for expert community and 600 brochures for general public in both countries disseminated, etc.

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