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Project Management Meetings
Project Management Meetings
4 management meetings take place during the project to foster collaboration among the consortium, ensuring the effective preparation and implementation of the activities.
The first Management Meeting was held online in April 2025, closely followed y a second meeting in person during the Global Reflection Meeting in Versailles, these meeting prepared the baseline of the project. In October 2025 the Consortium meets again to review the work so far and validate the outputs. The final in-person meeting will take place in Hebron, Palestine in April 2026 finalising deliverables, and strategising dissemination plans for the project outputs.
Needs Assessment Report
Global Reflection Meeting
Global Reflection Meeting
A dedicated space to to assess current trends in IVS, share best practices, and develop strategies for inclusion, environmental sustainability, and advocacy
The meeting took place in Versailles, France, bringing together 26 participants from around the world. The opening sessions focused on reflecting on the history of IVS to better understand present dynamics and future directions. Key topics included shifting motivations, the influence of technology, intergenerational inclusion, and the role of solidarity.
Global Reflection Meeting Report
Impact Measurement Training and Field Research
Impact Measurement Training and Field Research
A training session designed to introduce and equip participants with the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique—a participatory method that involves collecting and selecting stories of change from local communities. The technique engages stakeholders in a reflective process of discussing, analysing, and recording change.
Those trained in impact research and the MSC technique will work with participants following the Local Actions to gather community stories. These narratives will highlight local perspectives on the evolving relationship between culture, nature, and humanity.
The collected stories and data will be analysed and presented during the Earth Artivist Training and Songwriting Workshop, serving as a foundation for the creation of a multilingual song and the Earth Artivist Toolkit.
Impact measurement efforts will continue beyond the training, throughout August, to ensure comprehensive data collection from all Local Actions.
Reference materials related to “Online Trainings”
Earth Artivists Training and Songwriting Workshop
Earth Artivists Training and Songwriting Workshop
The Earth Artivist Training and Songwriting Workshop was a transformative 10-day residential program designed to equip youth participants with tools to advocate for climate justice. Held in Nairobi, Kenya, hosted by KVSO Kenya, it leveraged the profound impact of music as a vehicle for social change and awareness-raising.
The workshop brought together experts in environmental training and community engagement, and music specialists from the International Music Council (IMC) to focusing on songwriting.
The workshop culminateds in the co-creation of an original song and prepared s participants to carry out Local Actions featuring both the song and hands-on community activities
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Local Actions
Local Actions
The Local Actions taking place in Estonia, Turkey, Czech Republic, Italy, Turkey, Palestine, Kenya, South Africa, Ecuador and India in July and August 2025 will include the Earth Artivists issue from the training, who will bring the song from the training to local communities; they will work with Consortium members to organise a volunteer caravan.
The hands-on volunteer actions will take place in existing projects that focus on developing competencies in the field of sustainable farming, regenerative and fair management of natural resources, soil protection, ecosystem restoration, reforestation, organic farming and agro-ecological practices.
Symposium on Environmental
and Social Justice
Symposium on Environmental
and Social Justice
The Symposium will take place in November, hosted by SAVWA in South Africa. Through discussions, dialogues, and participatory group processes will:
1. Showcase achieved results, providing updates on progress and outcomes, and leverage insights from the Global Reflection Meeting (GRM) to assess the state of the International Voluntary Service (IVS) movement;
2. Facilitate the sharing of experiences and innovations from different project actions, along with evaluating the effectiveness of the decolonised approach and collectively charting out next steps;
3. Enable the discussion and validation of the proposed policy and advocacy strategies – these recommendations, previously reviewed by the Management Meeting and presented by the expert from the International Music Council (IMC), will be based on the results of the impact research findings. The external expert on impact Measurement will also join online to present the findings from the MSC technique prior to the discussions on the policy recommendations.
Furthermore, the Symposium will include a hybrid (online and offline) Open Conference taking place over one half day; this space serves as a crucial platform for knowledge sharing, best practice exchange, and comprehensive feedback collection on environmental and social justice issues.
Online Summit: “EmpowerEU”
Online Summit: “EmpowerEU”
The Summit will provide the space to present the overall project and its results, featuring speakers such as project participants and the CCIVS Youth Committee.
The agenda will include:
1.Detailed presentations of the online Knowledge Platform and a presentation of the Change Capsule, showcasing innovations related to the project’s approach;
2. Broadcasting the final music video and including individual videos of people with their specific request and concerns related to the topic coming from the Training and the Local Actions with reflection on What does it show? What does it change when people take power?
3. Highlighting inspiring impact research results;
4. A round table that will include the presentation of the policy and advocacy asks, and a discussion about these with an invited EU representative (to be defined);
5. A call will be made for more organisations and communities to join the advocacy actions foreseen after the projects ends. Following the summit, efforts will focus on disseminating conference proceedings and maintaining ongoing communication, including approaching EU institutions with the project’s results .
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