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Various techniques are being used including  [[Structured Dialogic Design Process|Structure Democratic Dialogues]], Wiki discussion groups, experts' opinion and analysis of internally produced and external data, as well as direct contact with key players.  
Various techniques are being used including  [[Structured Dialogic Design Process|Structure Democratic Dialogues]], Wiki discussion groups, experts' opinion and analysis of internally produced and external data, as well as direct contact with key players.  
===Youth Ambassadors for Millennium Development Goals===
This campaign aims to raise awareness about the MDGs, first, among young people and on a second level among general public in the target countries namely Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Cyprus. Taking into consideration that the EU new member states have recently started the implementation of their development policy and therefore still face significant weaknesses, there is a great need for educational and promotional activities which aim at building public support for MDGs (according to Eurobarometers). As these countries become responsible actors in international development field, their societies also should be informed about the needs of developing countries and mobilize support for effective development cooperation as agreed in the last few years by the donor countries. This project will mainly focus on youth ensuring that young people (future leaders) will take part in this educational and awareness raising process.
The project is planned for 2 years. During that time all the activities such as:  trainings of MDGs Ambassadors, festivals, events, competitions, debates, happenings as well as internet radio and platform, will take place simultaneously in all the project’s countries ( the activities will be adapted to the needs in each country). All the activities are planned in this way to ensure that maximum amount of young people will be involved in each stage of the project. Another important aspect is, that all the activities that will be implement in the project, will have a multiplayer effect.
The lead agency is the association “SMVS Youth for the World” from Poland. The main aim of the project is to raise public awareness on development issues and MDGs through active participation, discussion and different events which will involve youth from project’s countries. All the project’s activities will respond to the result that are planned to achieve.




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*Propose new European project proposals;
*Propose new European project proposals;
*Create and enlarge the network of European partners, as a resource for these and other European partnership projects.<br>
*Create and enlarge the network of European partners, as a resource for these and other European partnership projects.<br>
Expected Impact:
*Development of relationships and networking activities among the participating persons and institutions, contributing to the development of synergies and mutual enrichment;
*Better understanding of the history, nature, diversity, roles, problems and challenges faced by nonprofit organizations in the participating countries and regions;
*Dissemination of knowledge about different models, practices and materials used across Europe to qualify nonprofit organization and to develop their human resources;
*New personal and institutional competences to assess the training needs within nonprofit organizations and to plan participatory training projects and initiatives;
*More creative and innovative approaches to solve management problems and other situations related to the performance of nonprofit organizations; and
*Design of joint training-consulting and/or research-training-action projects and initiatives, combining the experiences of the involved persons and institutions.