Euro-Med Youth Platform

PROGRAMME ELEMENTS

Day 1

Average out of 20

Official opening.

Good, should wait for all participants x2, very solid and promising, official speeches a bit long, should have national flags, afraid of microphones at the beginning, OK, introduction of objectives, should have been followed by some evening activity, gave me a feeling immediately that it will be a wonderful period with interesting people, less politicians, official

Introduction of programme

Introduce speakers & their organisation, more details on boat trip, a little broad, should wait for all participants, good idea, better structured, OK, programme was announced in the day and not before(!), visualise it, put it permanently on a flip chart, it was clear, very clear

Introduction of participants

Should be followed by some ice-breaking / games / entertainment x5, good, should wait for all participants, too many at a time, nice way, nice method, introductions should be longer, good that organisations were presented in a booklet, the games were a good idea, OK, more personal, more talking, more informal space e.g. workshops, too fast, not sufficiently explained, confusing, more affective ice-braking games, more time

Day 2

Presentation on Situation of Young People

Should be more concrete x2, very useful, speaker did not answer my question, too broad, not very beneficial, speaker could have offered more, too general x5, Helpful, more time for discussion, seems experienced only on EU, not precise on Med, there should be a person from Med, perfect lecture, lack of accurate information, good quality, did not get new perspectives, more details about countries, not enough time for details, not enough new info, liked it a lot, very inspiring and complex, has given me tools, how to think on the situation of young people, statistic on flag??, interesting comparisons, brief and understandable, good references, good, active, involving, exciting, clear, informative, general, comparative

Workshops related to Youth Situations

Headings & Introduction help x2, Not everyone knew his situation, Tala (leader) was excellent, groups should have met the night before, better division of participants, more time x6, smaller groups, really good, informative, would be good with everybody, not well structured, we learn a lot, very active, good work, better facilitation x3, too general, skipped important issues, opportunity for youth from different countries to talk directly to each other, not sure it is necessary, topic not specific enough, very useful, the best, good to be led by participants, define objectives, learnt a lot from people who actually live the situation, very good that we were told to prepare before, preparation made it more interesting, amusing, interesting, not everyone had the opportunity to describe his situation, profitable, more of this, interesting to listen to, learnt a lot on personal views

Presentation on Euro-Med Partnership

Counting on what changes EU rules can bring, very explicative, excellent, difficult to listen, need for visual material x3, incomprehensible structure, clear, static x2, boring, serious, too theoretical, too heavy after lunch, not animated, good info, necessary, hand-outs, too much for beginners x2, really technical, could not understand well, really interesting, everybody slept

Presentation on Euro-Med Youth Platform

Not enough, explains why these countries and what is it for, useful, Web-site could have been shown x2, ppt, nothing new but important, good mixture of known and new information, nice, simple, clear, all questions were answered

Workshops on the Platform

Headings & Introduction help, not focussed, no Med countries, more useful for people with experience, opportunity for young people to make suggestions, nice, important, more specific, we spoke on our expectations, experience, organisations and what we missed, no needs -> no objectives, did not understand some people's ideas, profitable, more of this, Ramadan disturbed concentration, many valuable ideas

Intercultural Evening

Keep it, OK, fantastic x2, great x3, organisers should supplement with e.g. music, different music, we could start with North going South, excellent, wonderful, good food, haven't danced for ages, GB is a fantastic dancer

Day 3

NGO Café

More time x9, brilliant idea, no coffee, very good, better method, it takes too long to do this so try open space, use more informal education, brilliant idea to distribute information on organisations beforehand, should have been on the first day /beginning x2

Presentation on Euro-Med Youth Programme

Well presented, very clear x3, excellent, competent, structured, useful, perfect Silvia, good English, easy to follow, still nice even if I knew everything, long, not so understandable, understandable, interesting, good topic, good questions x2, more time for answers, one of the best presentations, nice, open-mindedness

Boat trip to Szentendre

Should have guide / guidelines (!) x2, would like to see more Budapest, fantastic, excellent, great way of spending time, prefer better weather x3, Thanks, same music, good for talking, long x2, good dinner x2, very nice, well organised, romantic, worth it, 650 HUF for a wine, delicious food, time for private talks, networking, party after was much better, would give it more points if allowed, good, clever idea of keeping us together to communicate, quiet city

Day 4

Workshops on different Actions

Too general x2, not enough to learn, more details x2, more detailed intro to Action 5, more time x2, different to choose workshop, perfect, did a great job, good for beginners but not experts, well conducted, instructive, knew most of the things but it was good, very useful x3, concrete technical info given, we need access to SALTO CD, Action 5 was good, Made rules of Action 1 clear but no time to share our experiences and problems, good to have hand-outs, I prefer to learn from each other than lectures, really good idea, perfect, Grazie Vito, nice, gained knowledge

Models of regional co-operation

Informative, concrete, Too fast x9, could not get detailed info, speaks very fast x5, a little broad, did not learn anything new, clear, good, not well presented, unclear speech, too much data for the short time, did not get the idea, hard to follow x2, not understandable x2, not clear, could not take notes, new for me so I got confused, speaker's English not understandable, complex

Training Opportunities

Informative, concrete, well, useful, opens new horizons, Bernard was great, enjoyed it, too much information x3, complicated, not clear on differences, Rui was moving fast, RG not perfect, needed handouts, clear x2, coherent, informative, too many basic things, no main idea why it was together, Programme is useful, exciting, many opportunities, interesting x2, new for me so I got confused, good presentation, became tiring, well structured

Creating Projects

Good project ideas came out, need to consult organisation, we created a project fast, very useful, could not be in the desired group x2, great idea x2, allow more mobility, managed to go to three groups, good work, very similar themes, no new ideas, good, more time x3, I cross my fingers, many good ideas, a bit chaotic, concrete, it provided opportunities to express ideas, good brainstorming, really good, better than expected, the best you can do in a short time

Please name your favourite session & why?

4 (x4), 5 (x9), 6 (x4), 7 (x2), 8 (x6), 9 (x7), 10 (x1), 11(x7), 13 (x9), 14 (x2), 15 (x6), 16 (x11)

Was there any session that did not fulfill your expectations? Why?

No (x9), 1 (x1), 4 (x6), 5 (x2), 6 (x2), 7 (x1), 10 (x4), 11 (x1), 13 (x1), 14 (x11), 15 (x2)

Was there a link in the sessions? Please explain

Yes (x26), No (x1), Not necessary (x1)

Do you have any recommendations for the next platform meeting?

Hear more on how people practice their religion

Start after arrival date

A meeting on Turkey x2

Meeting should be in a village

Start at 10 am

Introduction to Platform and Programme should be before speakers

More ice breaking after official opening

Shorter, and clearer inputs

Less inputs x3

Structured presentations

Encourage dialogue not collect all questions

Intercultural evening should be the fist evening

Sightseeing on first evening

Presentations with new methods

Lecturers should be chosen on their ability to reach participants not their position

Appreciated very much that Giovanni interacted with participants

Giovanni looks like a participant not a rough leader

Good that participants lead workshops

Hard to get to the point in workshops due to different cultural backgrounds

More facilitated workshops

Not in Ramadan

More thematic workshops

More countries

More information about the Platform during selection

More clear about the tools

Very good initiative

aa)

Very good organisation

bb)

Opportunity for Mediterranean youth to meet and find common solutions

cc)

People with whom to work

dd)

NGOs not journalists

ee)

More comparable level of participants

ff)

More workshops on practical issues

gg)

New participants need more practice

hh)

Reduce indoor activities

ii)

Farewell party to be replaced by sight seeing

jj)

More energisers

kk)

Time management

ll)

Technical equipment to be prepared

mm)

Better / more efficient ways

nn)

More workshops

oo)

More space for learning from each other

pp)

Different info should be given to beginners and others

qq)

More time for participants to organise themselves

rr)

<30% presentations

ss)

>30% Working Groups

tt)

20% Informal discussion

uu)

20% Leisure

vv)

More ice-breaking

ww)

No workshops after sun set

xx)

More chance to understand each other

yy)

More time to share material

zz)

Too much to capture

Any other comments

Glad to come

Glad to know all of you

I have better understanding of things

Very useful

I hope relations will be kept

More details in web-site

Thank you x14

Workshops are more appropriate

Speakers should give valuable content not just fill time

More social / cultural events in the evening

Social event on the first night

We did not meet anyone or see the city

We should be free after first night

I prefer organised social outings

I greatly appreciate this opportunity

I greatly value this opportunity

You are doing great work

An amazing experience

I appreciate that we were asked for feedback

I felt valuable thanks to Giovanni and Vito

We greatly appreciate that Raphael and Silvia eat, dance and drink with us

Good luck

Would like to know more about Euro-Med countries

Put information on countries on the web-site

Good project

Good participants

aa)

Keep going

bb)

You are in the right way

cc)

Huge work has been done

dd)

Great x2

ee)

Great time

ff)

Pillows were good

gg)

Wish our suggestions to the Platform are considered

hh)

Participants contact list

jj)

Really good that we got the documentation on organisations

kk)

Everyone participated fully according to ability without feeling stressed to do so

ll)

Nice place

mm)

Good team

nn)

Gave me enough boost to start cooperation with Med

oo)

Good Atmosphere

pp)

Rooms were warm

qq)

Food was not the best

rr)

Selection of participants is very important

ss)

Participants should be those really involved not those who talk about it

tt)

Exciting experience

uu)

A pleasure to take part

vv)

Learned a lot

ww)

First real contact with Arab World

xx)

Very interesting conversations

yy)

Thank you Giovanni

zz)

Wonderful meeting

aaa)

It opened my horizons

bbb)

Will have a long-term impact on my work

ccc)

You are all wonderful

ddd)

Really good experience

eee)

Thank you Vito and Chief of Chickens

fff)

Huge learning experience to see the different situations

ggg)

Tolerance

hhh)

Wonderful people

iii)

Good to hear people deeply involved in Euro-Med

jjj)

Love for EuroMed

kkk)

Projects being realised

lll)

Partnerships gained

mmm)

You are great

nnn)

Values not shown in behaviour do not exist