Author: wpadmin

In this newsletter you will learn about:

• The progress of the partners work regarding the FMID project
• The project results and events
• Partners online meeting

In this newsletter you will learn more about:

• Project development up to date
• Third transnatioinal meeting
• Final conference

European film project on inclusion and development for young people was presented Winners of local film festivals won a trip to Madrid.

The FMID project had the opportunity to welcome seven youth workers and educator in Schwerin, Germany. The LTTA was completed achieving its purpose. Participants were well informed about the project purpose and objectives, given information on how to create further resources themselves, and information on how to expand their practice into new online learning environments. Basically, the induction training designed to support the continuous professional development of youth education staff provides the perfect opportunity for educators from 6 different countries to come together and form a transnational community of practice focused on incorporating new technologies into the education of young learners for the challenges of the present and the future.

It is fundamental for the quality of the project, that events like this will be an added value in each participant and use the knowledge they gain for further use in their personal carries. In additions, participants had the opportunity to learn how to use the film making resources (PR1) in order to start their journey into the film making industry. Participants discussed the various opportunities that everyone can use in order to be a basic editor and gave overall feedback. This helped the consortium to take into consideration the feedback and make the necessary changes.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The Film Making for Inclusion and Development Project is an Erasmus + project that began in November 2021, and ends in September 2023. The aim of the project is to strengthen the employability and personal skill set of young people, with a focus on marginalized youth, through increased digital readiness, resilience and capacity in the area of film making.  The project is designed to avoid repeating the mistakes of formal education provision, but instead put a great ephasis on skills’, usefulness and relevance on technologies taught, at the same time teaching the epathy and creativity needed to properly reach students in danger of exclusion.

PROJECT MEETING IN SCHWERIN

Consortium members met at the first Transnational Partner Meeting in Schwerin on 18-19 July to discuss the next steps in project development. The meeting started with welcoming and presentation of partners. All partners presented their organizations. The coordinator presented the project development plan including deadlines of tasks and division of work between partners. Partners have agreed on all the upcoming activities.

PROJECT RESULTS

To achieve these objectives, the project consortium will develop three project results:

• PR1 – Video-making resources for employability and development of young people
• PR2 – In-service training programme and handbook for youth educators
• PR3 – Bespoke e-learning portal

PARTNERSHIP

The project is developed by six partners from six different EU countries:

• Jugendförderverein Parchim/Lübz e. V. – Germany (project coordinator)
• Acumen Training – Poland
• Rightchallenge – Portugal
• Siglo22 – Spain
• Future In Perspective Ltd. – Ireland
• CARDET – Cyprus

The project “FMID – Film Making for Inclusion and Development” officially started in November 2021 and will be implemented until August 2023.

The project, led by the German Partner Jugendförderverein Parchim/Lübz e. V. involves partners from Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus.

The project aims to create a suite of video creation resources for young people and to support youth workers and educators in delivering the video creation training with the support of bespoke in-service training and handbook. The project will develop also e-Learning portal.

In the framework of the project two transnational training events will be organized – In-Service Training Programme for youth workers and educators and Film-Making Masterclass for young people. Each partner will organize Film Festival on local level and moreover German coordinator will organize Final Conference.

The first meeting in the framework of the project took place online due to restrictions related to Covid. The next partner meeting is planned in July 2022 in Schwerin.

The FMID project has been funded under the ERASMUS + programme of the European Union.

The partners of the FMID consortium, met on July 18th and 19th 2022 for the project’s 2nd partnership meeting. During the two-days meeting, partners had the opportunity to discuss key milestones and to address future project challenges.

More specifically, the partners focused on the implementation of the project’s results and set a timeline for the upcoming steps. In addition, partners had a first glimpse on the FMID platform which was presented and soon it will be launched.

The project will create a suite of video creation resources for young people and will support youth workers and educators in delivering the video creation training through a bespoke in-service training and a handbook. The project will also develop an e-learning portal.

This is the official website of project ‘FMID’. News about the project and its latest developments will be posted here. Stay tuned!