Project results

Dear youth workers, leaders, project managers and workers in youth organisations, here are the results of the two years’ work on the Competitive Edge project. A wide spectre of handbooks, applications and publications focusing on increasing the competitivness of youth organisations are available free of charge to everyone who is looking for ways to improve their youth organisations, promote a valuable way of spending free time for young people and contribute to personal growth of the individual and the society as a whole.

Please look around our website to find even more resource related to the competitivness of youth organisations and the project Competitive Edge. Any comments, criticism, suggestions or proposal for cooperation will be much appreciated.

The project has ended. The Final Presentation and the Final Research Report are available for download.

  Fundraising manual (680 hits)
Gathering funds for various projects is often viewed as a burden in the organising process, as it gives as a feeling we are asking for money. But, if we take up an innovative approach to it, we end up not asking for money but rather offering opportunities for cooperation. Packed with practical advice on gather funds from various sources, the Fundraising handbook offers insight on how to communicate with potential funders, how to apply for tenders, how to collect donations at events, how to market you own products and services, how to keep existing sponsors and many more!

  Instant workshops (838 hits)
What can you get in a workshop? Maybe a job, or mood to work? You probably heard this word before, workshop, but nobody should ask what it is exactly, right? Maybe you took part in a workshop, or something similar, but you have no clue how to organize one such thing? What could be a good topic, or how people will get to know each other, who will take part and how they will find out about it? You probably have more questions. The good news is that this book answers a lot of these, at least we wrote it like that. You’ll find out what’s a workshop, what it’s good for and why. This handbook is a guide for all these, because it helps you understand, organize and carry out fun work together, an experience you’ll use in the future.

  “Coffee time” with former youth leaders (646 hits)
The goal of this publication is to underline the much overlooked importance that youth organisations hold in society. Inside, you’ll find opinions of people active in these organisation over the past years. Now successfully employed, they fondly recollect their past activities and share much of what they’ve learned. Although they come from four different European countries, their words often convey the same messages.

  Evaluation tools (759 hits)
Evaluation often seems pointless, additional work and without any value. But: do you believe that a quality evaluation can improve your work efficiency in a remarkable way? In youth organisations we usually evaluate meetings, project and team work, trainings, personal growth and organisation as a whole. The book in front of you brings answers to your questions about what evaluation is and how to get it started. On top of all it brings you a set of tools that you can use in your work!

  How to survive as a youth leader (454 hits)
Anyone who leads a group or a team, organizes meetings, prepares projects or programmes etc. find something for themselves. The booklet is arranged so that you can expand your knowledge and seek advice from our group of “experts” when you are in a situation where you know not what to do. “How to survive as a youth leader” is organised in a way that enables a quick search for desired information. The beginning offers some basic information on youth leaders and the concept of the leaflet, followed by problematic situations different leaders offer solutions to.

  Leaders Challenge (579 hits)
In front of you is a Leader’s Challenge. A collection of group games, team buildings (games for team building) and simulation exercises, which can help you and your group in raising awareness and acquiring competences, necessary for leading groups of young people. And not only these! Soon you will realize that the competences, needed for a youth leader, are very much alike the competences, needed for a successful business man, a father or a director.

  Image Building Manual (683 hits)
The basis of each organisation is its identity, which comprises all the characteristics, aspirations, common values and particularities that make an organisation unique and recognizable. To create a public image, an organisation has to define its organisational identity, its vision and an appropriate visual identity. Maintaining, transforming and cultivating a public image requires a professional approach to public relations.

Software modules are available in the project library in Software Pack