Themes

CooperativeWork Programme

October-December

How can you get involved?

• Research ideas and issues

• Develop & organise local activities

• Promote & spread the word

• Build & grow your city groups

• Fundraise & identify partners

Research & DevelopmentResearch ideas and issues

Develop workshops Research the themes

Design research methods

Engage with your community

Develop community mapping

Visualise the research

Who’s responsible? By 17 November By 9 December

Members of your Citygroup (YOU!)

Nominate a Research Coordinator for your Citygroup

Support your new Research Coordinator!

Attend events/debates centred on research issues of interest on the Themes

Identify experts/groups with whom your Citygroup could cooperate on projects/events

Your Citygroup’s Research &

Development Coordinator

Work out with your city group what are

the most locally relevant issues with

reference to the three themes

Identify who would be interested in

carrying out (field) research in the city

group & in particular on which issues

Use website to share publications &

links with other members

Start a potential cooperation with

relevant organizations & field experts

Report back to Bobbie the Research

activities in your Citygroup

Citygroup Coordinators Signpost your Citygroup’s new Research Coordinator to the Research folder

Email Bobbie the name/email of your Citygroup’s new Research Coordinator

Support your new Research Coordinator!

Cooperative (represented by Bobbie Miteva)

Answer any questions on the Research & Development work

Based on info from Research Coordinators, synthesize research interests & create corresponding working groups

Activities & EventsDevelop & organise local activities

Lectures Discussions Workshops Installations Storytelling

Vernissage Performance Theatre Music Ball/Party

Who’s responsible? By 17 November By 9 December

Members of your Citygroup (YOU!)

Brainstorm ideas for local activities on the Themes (see folder for background) from the Research work

Help organise the activity!

Citygroup Coordinators Use “Plan your Activity” presentation to help you develop your local activities with your members

Share your activity posters in this folder

Organise the activity!

Develop a local event which will happen in each of the cities (by January)

Cooperative Look at the similarities between local activities to identify opportunities for transnational activities!

Agree transnational activities to be developed between now and March

Communications & MarketingPromote & spread the word

Create flyers and posters

Create video documentaries

Interview experts and activists

Blog the activities Present your work

Get articles into the media

Who’s responsible? By 17 November By 9 December

Members of your Citygroup (YOU!)

Nominate a Communications Coordinator for your Citygroup

Participate in events and projects from organisations you want to work with

Support your new Communications & Marketing Coordinator!

Your Citygroup’s new

Communications & Marketing

Coordinator

Develop a communications action plan for your city groupo Identify which audiences you want to

invite to your activitieso Identify what marketing tools you

should use to target themo Identify media partners

Work with the Cooperative & EA to

create a welcome pack for new

members

Adapt an EA template to create a

flyer for your city group

Give feedback to the Member Reps,

so they can synthesize the info &

send out the monthly newsletters

Citygroup Coordinators Signpost your Citygroup’s new Communications Coordinator to the Communications folder

Email Daphne the name/email of your Citygroup’s new Comms Coordinator

Support your new Communications & Marketing Coordinator!

Cooperative Nominate a CommunicationsCoordinator for the Cooperative

Work with Comms Coordinators & EA to create a welcome pack

Membership & OrganisationBuild & grow the network

Find out what members want to do

Attract new members Get groups you’re involved in on board

Organise local activities

Share skills with other members

Who’s responsible? By 17 November By 9 December

Members of your Citygroup (YOU!)

Nominate a Membership Coordinator for your Citygroup

Share with the Membership Coordinator contacts you may have in Europe who could be invited to join the Citygroups

Get in touch with local groups if you happen to be travelling through one of the cities. This way the local group can organise an informal meetup around it

Your Citygroup’s new

Membership & Organisation

Coordinator

Research contacts within different university departments which would be interested in our work, especially the European Studies department

Research similar minded organisations, attend some of their events and present EA, or invite them for an informal chatopen to all potential members

Organise informal meeting to introduce your city group

Organise a formal event in your city group

Report back to Noel the Membership activities in your Citygroup

Citygroup Coordinators Signpost your Citygroup’s new Membership Coordinator Membership folder

Email Noel the name/email of your Citygroup’s new Membership Coordinator

Support your new Membership Coordinator!

Cooperative Nominate a Membership Coordinator for the Cooperative

Support your new Membership Coordinator!

Fundraising & PartnershipsFind funding & partners

Identify partners & funders

Organise fundraising activities

Write calls for proposals

Work with partners to use their expertise

Who’s responsible? By 17 November By 9 December

Members of your Citygroup (YOU!)

Nominate a Treasurer for your Citygroup

Support your new Treasurer!

Your Citygroup’s new

Treasurer (Fundraising &

Partnerships

Identify partners (companies and grants) to get funding from

Apply for Youth in Action funding for 1 November deadline

Report back to Thamar theFundraising activities in your Citygroup

Share any call for proposals submitted by your Citygroup to Thamar

Citygroup Coordinators Signpost your Citygroup’s new Treasurer to the Fundraising folder

Email Thamar the name/email of your Citygroup’s new Treasurer

Support your new Treasurer!

Cooperative Send information on Youth in Action programme for Citygroups to apply

Share document on fundraising

Organise a Skype meeting with new Citygroup Treasurers

Discuss and decide any calls for proposals at Cooperative monthly virtual meetings

Themes

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