27.09.2022 Final conference
Today we had a great opportunity to organize conference summarizing our project. The conference was addressed primarily to young people and people working with youth. Its aim was, on the one hand, to familiarize the participants with the assumptions of the implemented project, and on the other hand, to familiarize them with the tools, techniques and methods of self-management in time, which can be transferred to school and used by young people for more effective planning and organizing both learning and free time .
During the conference, a lecture was held on the most popular methods and tools for time management (e.g. applications for organizing learning, applications blocking the main distracting stimuli during learning), as well as practical workshops on how to use these methods and tools in everyday life. life.
We organized an international networking session for teachers and youth workers with representatives from schools, universities and NGOs from various countries.
26.09.2022 - Last partners meeting
A day before final conference, ending our project, we had opportunity to meet in person!
It was real pleasure to talk about the project, about so far cooperation, and to plan next activities
ABOUT THE PROJECT
PROJECT RATIONALE
Nowadays, young people have a very difficult start in their professional life. Although they have almost unlimited development opportunities, paradoxically it is extremely hard for them to find right direction in their education and professional life. There are certain skills and competences that are so universal, that will be useful in every job: creativity, entrepreneurship, decision-making skills, flexibility, etc. There is also a certain skill that binds most of the above mentioned. It is ability to efficient self and time management, plan tasks properly and implement them successfully. The project promotes supporting young people in the process of acquiring and developing this fundamental skill needed in nearly each part of life – time and self management. Numerous research show that ability to efficient time and self management is nowadays crucial in many aspects of everyday personal and professional lives, this is also one of the primary "soft skills" valued in the workplace. That it is so important to start to learn this skill as early as possible. Through complex activities, project will contribute to development of set of tools which will real and practical help for young people in the process of acquiring such an important, universal competence as time and self management. Project activities will contribute to development of practical, effective instructions supporting young people in the process of learning how to effectively organize and manage their longterm learning. And on the other side, project activities will also contribute to promotion of responsible planning and organization of learning process among young people. During the 18 months period it is planned to develop and test set of materials, which will help young people to learn how the can effectively organize their time with usage of many effective planning tools and methods. What’s more, we also plan to develop set of materials dedicated to people from closest surroundings of the young students. Thanks to these materials, young students will receive effective support from their teachers, parents and other people working with them. All this will ensure complex support for young students in the process of gaining skills and competences needed to organize their learning process in most effective way, and in future to organize their professional life in much more effective way. The main of the project is to strengthen young people's competences in the area of managing themselves in time in the context of independent organization of own learning process, thanks to the use of tools developed within the project.
First of all, these will be the results of intellectual work that we plan to develop as part of the project: 1. Online course for young people. The course will contain, on the one hand, a set of arguments about why it is worth learning to manage yourself in time and how such a skill helps in private and professional life, and above all in science. The main part of the course will be a set of methods and tools thanks to which young people will be able to learn to effectively manage themselves in time, especially in the context of organizing their own learning 2. Information materials aimed at academic teachers working with youth. The materials will contain instructions on how to teach young people to be independent in organizing their learning, how to support the development of time management skills while conducting regular activities for young people. 3. Information materials aimed at parents / guardians as well as people working with young people and supporting them in their daily activities. The materials will contain a range of information and valuable, practical tips on how to effectively support young people in the process of organizing self-study and acquiring self-management skills