Basic criteria
- Projects relate to a social relevant issue or topic (social impact)
- They are focused on clear goals (theory of change)
- They have a defined time frame
- They plan resources like human, financial, environmental and other resources
- Projects involve other people and the community according to the ideal of participation
- There is a logical description of how the project has an impact on people, the community or the environment after it will finish (sustainability)
Possible indicators for checking the social impact of a project idea |
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Values: |
how values are reflected in the goals (working for what) and in the operative concept (how to work). |
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Responsibility: |
the team members are independent and feel responsible for their activities. |
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Development of personal capacities: |
team members use their learned capacities |
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Societal relevance: |
the project links individual action with societal impact. |
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Authenticity: |
a project represents an individual thought or concept as an answer to societal needs. |
A Project Concept
In the following step, to create a more concrete project concept, you can use a basic template for a project concept. In this way, participants learn to transform a broad and often not yet very detailed idea in a type of elaborated logical description. Offer your participants to create such a text step-by-step. Maybe these method templates could fit to your needs:
Nils-Eyk Zimmermann
Editor of Competendo. He writes and works on the topics: active citizenship, civil society, digital transformation, non-formal and lifelong learning, capacity building. Coordinator of European projects, in example DIGIT-AL Digital Transformation in Adult Learning for Active Citizenship, DARE network.
Blogs here: Blog: Civil Resilience.
Email: nils.zimmermann@dare-network.eu
