The project has an educational character. Its main products will be three educational events: Summer School for Polish and Russian students from architectural and urban planning faculties and two parts of youth exchange from secondary schools from Gdansk and Kaliningrad with similar scope of teaching.
In order to ensure the precision and quality of the educational process and the correct flow of the assessment and coclusion process, the educational events will be proceeded and closed by special conferences.
As a consequence, methodologically the project consists of four groups of activities:
Activity Group 1: Conferences. In April 2007 a two-day opening conference will be orginised at the State Technical University in Kaliningrad. The project will be presented to the wider academic audience and the methodological details ofthe Summer School (see below) will be defined. The conference therefore gives an ending to the preparatory stage of the project and launches its activities. In November 2007 concluding conference will take place (see below).
Activity Group 2: Polish-Russian Summer School, Study visit to Kaliningrad and accompanying activities. The Summer School will be orginised in July/August 2007 in Gdansk - Studzienka. After the Summer School classes four Polish-Russian task force groups, each composed of five students, will be created to work with four ideas of development of the object in Studzienka by the use of the server of the Overall Lead Partner. In November Study tour to Kaliningrad will be orginised, where students will prepare four projects. In the second half of 2007 a methodological textbook will be published financed by TACIS.
Activity Group 3: Youth Exchange. Complex Architectural and Constructional Schools in Gdansk will host 10 pupils from Kaliningrad State Urban College for a study tour in June 1-10, 2007. Polish pupils will pay the return visit for a study tour to Kaliningrad in September 2007.
Final Stage (Activity Group 4) comprises finalization of financial and technical aspects of the project accounting.
The activities within the project are coherent, they have a linear character (the implementation of each stage begins after the previous one is completed). The conference in Kaliningrad precedes two stages implemented in Poland (I Part of Youth Exchange, Summer School). The following three activities (II Part of Youth Exchange, EU students' study tour in Kaliningrad, conference in Kaliningrad) and publishing of the Polish-Russian textbook will be implemented on the external side of the EU border. These managing arrangements allow the concetration of activities and their accounting onthe Polish side, as well as ensure the flexibility and safety of the schedule on the Russian side. The experience and organisational skills of partners guarantee professional management of the project.
The European Foundation of Monuments Protection and Gdansk Technical University on the Polish side and the Kaliningrad State Technical University on Russian side will be responsible for the selection of the students. The school principals will be responsible for choosing the students for study trips, the basis of choice will be good study results. The principle of equal opportunites for men and women will be observed during the selection process.
Taking into account the Overall Lead Partner's experience, the partnership have decided that the European Foundation of Monuments Protection will be responsible for the management of both financial instruments. The accounting and management of the project will be located in one institution, which contributes to the effectiveness of the finacnial and technical implementation of the project.
The partnership agreement enables the transfer of part of the advance payment from the Overall Lead Partner to the Kaliningrad State Urban College in order to start-up the coordination office for activities on the Russian side and Kaliningrad State Technical University to orginise the conference. Teh rest of partners implement their tasks within the project using their own resources.
The implementation of the project will also give a chance for Russian partners to gain the basic experience in managing projects co-financed by the EU.