Karpatské Centrum Woodcraftu

"<< Background >>The project is the result of a long-term cooperation between three partners from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. They share common values, target groups and approaches. They are interested in supporting sustainable development in their communities and in supporting innovation and attractive informal lifelong learning. The project in the same time is also the follow up initiative of thje accomplished Interreg V.A Slovakia-Hungary cross-border project whcih resulted in construction and establishement of the facility / infrastructure of the Carpathian forest education and residence center. The ""Carpathian Woodcraft Center"" project was therefore a logical step in the creation of local, but also cross-border and Central European (Carpathian) programs and initiatives offered in newly developed centre. With the project, we wanted to solve both the creation of these programs and a network of longer-term cooperating partners, and the need to increase the skills, knowledge and practical knowledge of our trainers, trainers, activists, leaders, and even representatives of target groups (people who want to learn something interesting and useful as well. << Objectives >>The goal of the project was to improve the quality of informal adult education in the conditions of Central Europe through following specific objectives :1) Increase the competences and skills of our trainers, leaders, trainers, teachers and educators2) To strengthen the capacity, diversity and attractiveness of our and joint programs of our non-formal education centers for adults and youth3) And last but not least, to improve the level of cross-border cooperation between project partners and their target groups (own staff and users of results).<< Implementation >>The project was divided into the following 9 work packages: Management, evaluation, reporting and creation of a network and partly the multiplication of outputs and results was coordinated and supervised by the applicant from Slovakia (Legend Photo).The identification, processing and exchange of good practices and procedures together with the organization of study exchanges between partners was organized and coordinated by the Hungarian partner association Vízia (Jovokép). The testing and introduction of selected good practices and procedures as well as the design and preparation of educational programs for partner educational centers together with publicity and information of target groups was covered and coordinated by the Czech partner Združenie SPLAV. Testing and finalization of the planned programs of the partners' educational centers, the design and planning of joint cross-border activities was covered by the Romanian partner EKE Association. Communication between partners took place bilingually (Slovak and Hungarian), in the case of study exchanges and multinational events in English. The activities were developed into a Project Implementation Plan (PIP) with a detailed bilingual explanation of duties, deadlines, costs.<< Results >>It should be emphasized that the project achieved all its planned and set results. They were the product of well-planned activities in the preparation in which all partners were involved. We also evaluated individual results with a set of indicators, which we managed to fulfill effectively. We achieved : • Increased quality and scope of cross-border and local non-formal adult education• Increased capacity, skills as well as the number of trainers, coaches, teachers and educators• Increased capacity, attractiveness and actionability and sustainability of informal learning centers for adults• Improved sustainable cross-border cooperation of partners• Increased number of adult activities in favor of the environment and climate• Increased number of creativity and cultural heritage programs for adults"