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“For it is not enough to have a good mind, rather the main thing is to apply it well. The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues, and those who go forward only very slowly can progress much further if they always keep to the right path, than those who run and wander off it.” René Descartes

The focus of the Alliance projects is on providing quality measures and standards towards youth democratic participation, inclusion-accessibility, mobility of young people, non-formal education, environmental sustainability, capacity building and networking of member organisations along the volunteering policies and approaches decided and adopted on the network’s level with a view to have a substantial and durable impact on national, regional and local level.

In order to align the diverse and various activities the Alliance Training and Education Policy paper aims to provide a guideline for the network itself as well as its member organisations to run a project or a training for multipliers and facilitators on basic and specific topics and actions.

The Alliance provides capacity building for its members from IVS technical placement procedures to training and social skills development, external relations, social inclusion/participation, environmental and general sustainability in IVS projects and networking events, quality management, volunteering trends research and policy development on various issues representing the network.

The activities of the Alliance are arranged to support and develop the programmes and interests of members. There are three regular meetings/events each year:

Other events are organized every two years or whenever decided by the members:

Other events organized by the Alliance on a yearly basis or every two years, are the Study Session (implemented in cooperation with the European Youth Centres of the Council of Europe, and the Post Camp Event. Since the adoption of the Alliance Training and Educational Policy paper by the GA 2013, both events are included as part of the Alliance Long Term Training Course.

In this presentation you can view the training and networking activities organized by the Alliance in 2017.

Working Principles of Alliance educational activities

When talking of principles of Alliance’ educational approach every Alliance educational activity should:

1. Have a clearly defined structure – aims, objectives, methodology, target group(s);
2. Use a diversity of methods by taking in consideration diversity of learning styles;
3. Incorporate principles of experiential learning and non-formal education;
4. Be well balanced between theoretical and practical approach;
5. Create equal opportunities for participation of all participants;
6. Encourage interaction and exchange (trainers-participants, trainers-trainers, participants-participants);
7. Be flexible and oriented towards participants’ needs;
8. Support both professional and personal development;
9. Be supportive and sensitive towards people with fewer opportunities;
10. Use best practices and know-how from the rich experience of Alliance and its achievements, outcomes and results of former commitments;
11.  Promote sustainable development during work as well as sustainability of work done.

Ethical Principles

Every educational event/training should be based on following ethical principles:

1. ensure fundamental rights and freedoms to participants and colleagues that all people are entitled to take part in an Alliance educational activity regardless of nationality, national or ethnic origin, sex/gender, age, race, religion, language or other status;
2. promote the vision and mission of Alliance;
3. promote professional and methodological development in the field;
4. ensure/assure a good reputation of Alliance;
5. promote positive values in society;
6. promote the 4 principles of Sustainability Campaign during realization of activity.

Code of Professional Conduct

Code of professional conduct for all stakeholders of Alliance educational activities is based on a few essential principles: responsibility, independence, integrity and public interest. Everybody should respect and act according to the following:

1. To implement activity on high professional level;
2. To follow Alliance educational approach as defined by this document;
3. To actively participate in design, implementation and evaluation of activities;
4. To actively support follow-ups of activities within the bounds of possibility;
5. To be responsible for self-development and own improvement in the field;
6. To protect participant’s and colleague’s personal data;
7. To ensure safety of participants and colleagues during implementation of the activities;
8. To lead by example.

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