1. The Programme is funded by Erasmus+ under
Care 2 Work Programme
Dissemination and Communications
3nd Transnational Partners Meeting
Andriana Ntziadima – IARS Communications and Youth Projects Manager
15th November 2016
Athens – Greece
The Programme is funded by Erasmus+ under
   UK01-KA

2. Communication and Dissemination Objectives
Our key objectives are:
To communicate and disseminate knowledge produced by the project
To ensure programme sustainability – exploitation tool
At the partnership level we need to ensure
Clarity – transparency – openness and consistency

3. Programme Messages
Messages will be defined by all partners – focus on programmes’ achievements and its positive impact.
Key messages:
What is the project about?
Aim of the project
Potential impact on our beneficiaries
Who is involved in the project –partners’ profile should be defined in all activities
Key evidence arise from the programme
Conferences, events and workshops
Milestones

4. Responsibilities
The IARS International Institute has the overall responsibility of the dissemination and communication activities
Project partners will contribute to the implementation of their relative actions including:
Dissemination of outcomes at local and national level (native language)
Promotion and announcement of national conference – Anziani
Promotion and announcement of international conference - Greece
Organisation and promotion of local workshops
Announcement on participation in local events
Support IARS to disseminate outputs at the EU Level

5. Communications Matrix
Scientific
Practical
Awareness
Local Level
Young People, Social Workers, Social Services Providers, Local authorities (councils etc. policy makers, professional associations, health and social care practitioners, social care practitioners, educational providers (teachers etc), Vocational Training Centres
employments support services, educational providers, young people
Media/ Journalists Associations
National Level
Universities, national governments (focus on employment, social, educational, employment and youth policies)
social workers - health care professional associations / national governments (employment, social, educational, employment and youth policies), NGO’s (working with young people), Immigrants associations
Young people, employments support services, NGO’s working with young people
European/International
European Parliament Interested Groups on Carers – Social Protection Committee, Council of Europe – EU partnership for Youth
European Network of organisations working with and for family carers, young people 

6. Other European Tools Dissemination of Outputs
VALOR
Valor is the new Dissemination and Exploitation platform that offers a comprehensive overview of all projects funded under the new Erasmus+ and Creative Europe programmes as well as some projects funded under the previous programmes (LifeLong Learning, Youth in Action, Culture , etc.).
“Compulsory upload of project results by coordinator”
Erasmus E-Newsletter
Feature programme news on the website

7. Visibility of Union Funding
As beneficiaries we must:
Acknowledge European funding and display the EU logo on project publications, outputs or materials
EC guidelines can be found here
All project materials and publications produced by the project must include the following disclaimer
“Any communication or publication related to the Project made by the beneficiaries jointly or individually in any form and using any means, shall indicate that it reflects only the author's view and that the NA and the Commission are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains”.

8. Dissemination Activities
Dissemination Activities should include both tangible project results and intangible project results;
Tangible results may include:
tools, educational resources, curricula and other materials
Reports or studies
Good practice guides or case studies
Newsletters, information leaflets etc.
Intangible results may include the following;
Knowledge and experience gained by learners or staff
Increased skills or achievements
Improved cultural awareness
Improved language skills
Intangible results should be considered for dissemination through our newsletter

9. Dissemination Activities
Completed activities
Launch of the Care 2 Work Project – partnership announcement
Development of the projects website – Completed
Launch of the website and fieldwork announcement
Launch of the national and pan-European Reports
Leaflet development
Newsletter template completed
M10 newsletter produced by IARS (Report launch and Conference in Italy)
Dissemination Strategy drafted by IARS

10. Website Care2Work.org
Website performance: November 2015 – November 2016
Total Users: 2.304
Total Sessions: 3.203
Total Pages views: 6.973
Traffic Acquisition:
52% referrals
25% organic search
2% Social media referrals (space for improvement)

11. Dissemination Activities
Outstanding activities:
Newsletters M18 (Oct 16), M24 (April 17)
The next newsletter will be disseminated in November 2016 to cover the C1 training event.
Each partner to submit a blog for each day of training – partners and guests to be asked to contribute (summary of the day, key learnings, best practice) (blogs max words)
Deadline to be agreed by end of November
Conference dates to be including and SAVE the day
Expression of interest in the online training

12. Dissemination Activities
Outstanding activities:
Conference in London
Target audience: 110 people (in the application body we mentioned 150)
70 national and 40 international
Proposed week 27th March – 4th April
Structure
Presentations of intellectual outputs in the morning (1 presentation per partner)
Break down the attendees into two working groups
Each working group will be allocated 45minutes – 60 minutes and will contain 15 minutes presentations/case studies/best practices etc. (total 6)

13. Dissemination Activities
Outstanding activities:
Conference in London
Conference communications plan to be developed
Call for sumbissions to be announced / abused no more partners to be considered for presentations
Other outstanding activities
Publications on academic journal

14. Dissemination Activities
Areas of improvement
Care 2 Work Website Visibility
Social Media Activities – Limited social media activity has been observed; Care2Work doesn’t have its own social media platforms but the following actions are proposed
Use twitter and #Care2Work
Research relevant organisations, identify their twitter handles and tweet directly at them
Use partners hashtags to broaden your audiences
Update your organisations Facebook
Disseminate information via LinkedIn
Always include links to the website Care2Work (you can use the website click in your e-electronic signature
Include links to the Care 2 Work website on your own website eg. as standard feature on the home page

15. Dissemination Activities
Monitoring and evaluation of dissemination activities
All dissemination activities should be monitored regularly and evaluated. Dissemination will be integral part of our progress report to the NA and final project report.
In order to monitor your activities please use
Monitoring excel spread sheet that covers why, what, how, when, to whom and where dissemination took place.
For each activity, shared KPI tool (to be send to partners following the meeting (eg. Number of followers, number of newsletter subscribers. (for consistency purposes)
Reports to be collected on a 6 month basis – next report by
20th January 2017

16. Thank you