Impact Report 2018 StreetwiZe • Mobile School

streetsmart • Transnational Meeting greece
24/01/2018 • 26/01/2018
Rob Sweldens
Wim Depickere
Lies De Vocht
Erasmus+ KA2
Thessaloniki / Greece
Since September last year, Mobile School
NPO is the leading partner in an Erasmus+
programme on case management for non-formal
education in youth work. Together with
partner organisations CME GPU-UNO (Poland
- Robert Cieslar), ARSIS and PRAKSIS (Greece
- Alberto Perez and Eirini Karanikola), Mobile
School is developing a digital tool for personal
case management within youth work
in non-formal education. Therefore, we chose
to apply for the Erasmus+ programme and
started a KA2 project: Strategic partnerships
supporting innovation. Being able to partner
with organisations with different expertise is
a necessary condition for developing this tool.
Cooperation with relevant partners and youth
work initiatives help define the user’s needs,
assess the user-friendliness and disseminate
this project. Within this programme, the EU
encourages programme countries to share their
experiences in transnational project meetings.
At the end of January, we organised the second
transnational project meeting in Thessaloniki.
The first one took place in Leuven in October
2017.
The meeting started with a short update on
the first intellectual output, the research report
on case management within youth- and street
work.
The main focus of the transnational project
meeting was the update on the current screens
we had for the mobile application, SYD (working
title - Street Youth Development). As it was the
first time our partners saw these screens, it was
important to get their feedback. Afterwards the
main goal was to prioritise all our needs and
wants. This way our developers from Accenture
(via Share.IT - French Tech4 Good Partner) could
start developing. A lot of conversations and discussions
were held, but it was all very insightful.
Some of the methodologies we were thinking of
using within the mobile application, were also
tested in a rudimentary way (on paper, with Google
Forms…) during a street intervention with
PRAKSIS. Not only the mobile school coordinator
of PRAKSIS did this, but also her volunteers and
they were all really enthusiastic.
To finish this transnational project meeting, the
Greek partners invited their testing hub partners.
These organisations are willing to help test SYD
when we have a first version. We organised an
afternoon during which we presented our organisation
and the SYD application.
IMPACT
Update on research report on case management in youth work
Feedback on current screens for mobile application
Prioritising of features for development
Testing of methodologies in a street intervention
Meeting with Greek testing hubs
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