Our project is a program implemented under the leadership of the Power Plant Contemporary Art Association in the frame of International Partnership.

 

Our project focus is:

Developing and experimenting a social convergence model, that creates complex opportunities and disseminating its results. The name refers to  the development of a collaborative methodology that we create with the professional partners involved in joint creative work in an action research framework.

 

Target groups of our project:

Our project primarily works with professional target groups, on the one hand with experts and researchers involved in the implementation of project activities at the project promoter and partner organizations, and on the other, networking and expanding professional, organizational and institutional circles.

 

Our professional area:

Creating and developing a collaborative methodology based on the self-regulation of social systems of the family, family networks and communities as a practical application – by sharing experiences in development circles.

 

Activities of our project:

In order to achieve these goals, we organize domestic and international meetings, where we participate in joint training sessions, we turn the lessons learned into the creative process through workshops and professional introductions and share our knowledge and results with the professional and public audience.

Between two meetings, our work is supported by a jointly managed website, which gives the infrastructure background of the common knowledge base and database.

 

The most important outputs of the project are:

The exchange of experiences itself are the most important result expected from international and domestic cooperation, the whole process of which is documented and the following studies are prepared:

• At the start of the process we will prepare a baseline report summarizing the framework, content and goals of the professional work. At the same time, we invite our partners to add to their own goals and professional knowledge.
• The above familiarization and planning process leads to finalizing our research plan.
• Based on the above, we prepare our common work plan, which is created and developed throughout the project in the planning and implementation cycles of the project.
• We produce a separate research report on our research results, which can be used independently to disseminate the results of the project and involve other professional partners.
• So, by the end of the project, we will produce a final report summarizing and evaluating our entire workflow, highlighting the methodology we have worked with, its development and the possibilities for further development as well as our lessons and suggestions, as a third important ingredient.
• At the end of the project, we will hold an international conference, which will give us an account of our results and start the process of forming an international action group.
• Along with these, we keep up-to-date the network’s website.

 

The target system of the project

Long-term Strategic Goal

• Developing a Meta-metodology Development Program
• Economic stability, a strong physical and mental state of strengthened society
• Strengthen the family as the most subtle component of the social security net

 

Project Goal

• Understanding and exchanging good practice in co-operation in international cooperation
• Developing social innovation recommendations for domestic and international applications
• Active professional cooperation with domestic and foreign organizations

 

Operational Results

Establishing a cooperative model

• Developing a sample program
• Widening the existing and proven sample program elements more widely

 Co-operative action research

• Extension of specialized professional knowledge

• Exchange of experiences and good practices

Family protection net – facilitating networking

• Strengthen the families of families helping each other
• Encourage grassroots cooperation to promote the well-being of families

Further goals to which indirectly contributed activities are:

• Strengthen cooperation between the countries of the Danube Strategy and the policy experts in the Visegrad countries
• Supporting and improving the situation of families with special or difficult situations, with services complementary to family support services

 

Goals of the action research

At the level of the research group (individual development of researchers)

Changes in the thinking, attitude, self-perception, insight of human nature and social connections of the participating research associates that can be linked to the subject or process of research (transformation of personal being)

Practical skills, competences that have evolved, developed, changed to the subject of common work

Theoretical knowledge, relationships, models, and recognitions that emerged during the research

 

At organization level (family and family network development)

Practical product of the research process: cooperation methodology

 

At social level (network development of organizations)

Throughout the project, we will create the basis for this through the meta model of cooperation. Practical implementation is one of the long-term strategic goals of the project, but it can not be related to the given project period.