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Kick-off meeting of the projectRecognition of learning in Scouting and Guiding

Date of event27 - 29 May 2011

Place of eventFDFs forbundskontor, Copenhagen, Denmark

Date of report29 May 2011

Author of reportMilutin Miloevi

Summary

Recognition is one of the key issues today in several national Scout associations across Europe. Projectproposal from the Scouting Netherlands got support from the Youth in Action program to lead a projectthat involves associations from Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Portugal,Slovenia and Spain. WOSM and WAGGGS European Regions are supporting the project providing expertsupport if and when needed.

KFUM Denmark hosted the first meeting of the project managers from all involved countries, from 27 to29 May 2011 in Copenhagen. It was the opportunity to share and plan project ideas from each countryand discuss next steps in project implementation.

The associations have a variety of needs and priorities in this area. Some of the are similar, andpartnerships were foreseen during the project, while others will be used as a good experience for othersin the future projects.

At the end of September, whole project teams from all 8 countries will meet to share even more andwork together on recognition.

Number of participants and countries represented

Countries Females Males Total

Belgium (SGV and Les Scouts) 1 1

Czech Republic 1 1

Denmark (KFUM) 1 1 2

France (SGdF) 1 1

Netherlands 1 2 3

Portugal (CNE) 1 1

Slovenia (ZTS) 1 1Spain (ASDE) 1 1

WAGGGS 1 1

WOSM 1 1

TOTAL 13

Participants were project leaders from NGO's.

Aims of the event

Aim of the meeting was to start writing a national project plan and to start working on establishing aproject team in each partner country.

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Programme

Programme included elements like getting to know each other, review of the initial weekend held inDecember 2010, discussion about expectations and possibilities within this project, presentations of thepossibilities within the WOSM and WAGGGS network on European level to support the project teams,setting goals and aims for each partner organisation, writing the project plans, including the possibilitiesfor exchange of methods and experiences on international (European) level, matching the goals and aimsof the national project plans with the goals and aims of the Youth in Action program and planning the

meeting of national project teams.

Follow up action

The project includes individual projects in each of the countries and three more meetings of the projectleaders or teams.

From 14 to 16 October 2011 there will be a larger network meeting of the project teams (3-5 peoplefrom each partner organization) in Portugal. This network meeting will focus on sharing ideas, discussingapproaches, exchanging methods and materials and developing activity plans for each national projectteam. There will also be the opportunity to present the proposals of the EYV 2011 Alliance in the area ofrecognition and ask for a feedback.

Goals by countries established during the meeting include: France: within this year exchange tools with other countries; next year develop an e-tool of

recognition based on "Valirise Toi"; by the next meeting matching the specialist in the association

Czech Republic: make recognition part of all trainings (next year); make use of the result of theother projects they do, distribute self-evaluation tools, minimum competencies profiles andqualifications; improve the mentoring system for Scout leaders

Denmark: this year they plan to make a toolbox for activities that will help leaders to create theirportfolio

Slovenia: by September half of the participants in all the training this summer will use the tool theyare designing now (in a test phase); within one year the Training System will be re-designed usingthe competency-based approach

Belgium: there is the whole project going on in Les Scouts, there are 5 people working there andthe deadline is end of this year; they plan chats with CEO and business people; discussion self-

assessment tools with their leaders; and PR campaign to parents. Scouts and Guidsen Vlaanderen

plan to complete their recognition tool by September Spain: have a new Training System adopted to the new (federal) Law in the country (meeting of

the training coordinators planned for June 2011); evaluate "Scout schools" in each of the 17provinces in the country and get them validated by the regional government (in one year time);implemented and evaluated new Training System, and agreeing between different Scoutassociations about adjusting their Training Systems

Portugal: they are renewing their Training System (to the new Youth Programme) and there is theteam working on that; the main goal is to create awareness in the society of the value of theirtraining; sub-goals include formal recognition by the state (EFP); they also want to get intocommunication with business companies; process wise, they need to create a project team to workon the issue

Netherlands: this year they implement the new Training System and renew the scheduled plan toproduce 35 training modules; they trained around 1.000 leaders, and this year they will train 5 -6.000 more; they need to train 750 coaches on national level; they will try to reach 4 "universitylevel" institution who will recognise their training system and accept it as a valid credit for theirstudents

Participants also agreed on having regular updating/coaching Skype meetings.

Evaluation

The exchange on recognition on Saturday morning was very interesting and helpful. Some ideas

generated there may be worth developing more.

I am under the impression that not all the countries are still fully involved in the project, and therefore Iam looking forward to the meeting of the project teams, when they will hopefully all be more active inimplementation of the ideas they have.

The meeting was organised in an original Scout way, with participants sharing tasks in all the issuesincluding preparing food. This contributed to creating good atmosphere and working and friendlyrelations.

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Some suggestions

Associations involved have a variety of needs and priorities in this area of work, and that is an additionalquality of the project. But, some of them are already advanced in their work and projects (TheNetherlands, Belgium, Denmark), while others are only at the starting point.

Sometimes, the project team from Scouting Netherlands engages more than just coordinating the

projects in countries, trying to ensure the success of the whole project. I am under the impression thattheir approach to offer coaching to other associations is a bit too much, as the associations are capableand have initiative.

Budget and financial report

Travel costs were refunded for 70%, including the bus or train tickets to and from the airport andaccommodation from the Youth in Action programme. The Regions covered WOSM and WAGGGSrepresentatives' travels.