EVALUATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

CHALLENGES IN BUILDING CHILD FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES

International conference CHALLENGES IN BUILDING CHILD FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES was held from
10th 12th October 2014 in Zadar (Croatia). At the end of the conference participants were given an
evaluation questionnaire in which they were suppose to express their opinion about the conference
through questions. Evaluation sheets were filled in and submitted by 52 participants of the
conference in total.
The purpose of the evaluation was to determine the degree of satisfaction of the participants of the
Conference, as well as gain insight into the issues of organizational work. We wanted to know
whether we can offer something new and different for the participants in the future or to correct and
improve our work.

1. How did you felt mostly during the conference? Paint one or more characters that express your
most often emotions.

How did you felt mostly during the

conference? Paint one or more characters
that express your most often emotions.
high
proud
sad
nice
boring
worried
grateful
irritated
important
confused
curious
happy
encouraged
scared
excited

As you can see from the graph, most of the participants felt happy, courious and nice. Thats way we
believe that this International Conference was organised on a good way and that all the participants
got the most of it as for the lectures, workshops, interconnecting and socializing.
Because of the wide range of people who participated in this Conference (from students to lectures
and from people from all around Europe) it is a good sign that we have manage to meet the needs of
most of the participants. When organising this kind of events, It is very important fro us to create a
good and comfortable atmosphere so that participants can get to know each other and to make the
most of it.

2. Please explain why did you felt in a certain way?

The second question is a descriptive paragraph that explains the first question. Below, we bring you
the most common responses that have emerged.

Because of the good organisation

Because of the interesting topics
Because of the different kinds of lectures
Because participants had a chance to learn something new
Because it was dynamic
Because of the hospitality
Because of the new people
Because of the useful informations
Because atmosphere was very pleasant
Because of the opportunity to express and present someones knowledge, work and
achievement

3. Please extract some situations/things that you have been satisfied/not satisfied related to the
conference.
In this part, we have gathered two questions into one. The reason for that is because we wanted to
show the relation between the situations/things that participants were satisfied and the ones that
they were not satisfied about.

SATISFIED ABOUT
-

Good organisation
Presentations of the NGOs
Giving the participants the real examples
(not only theory)
The quality of the workshops
Quality lectures
Level of peoples interest in the topics
that were introduced
Participation of young people
Accomodation
Food

NOT SATISFIED ABOUT

-

Lack of communicaton (some

participants didn't speak English very
well)
Program was overloaded
Too short period

As you can see, the participants were satisfied with the organisation of the conference as well as with
the lectures, presentations and the workshops that we have provided for them. It is very important
that participants have said that they are very satisfied with the quality of the given content which
means that the whole organisation of the conference reached it's goal and that it to offer a new
ways, from various aspects, on how to build a community that is friendly to children.

4. Extract what you have learned at the conference and what you consider is important.
Below you can see the most common responses that have emerged:

examples of good practice

how to be careful with the stereotypes
improwed english in the topic of childrens rights
interesting points of view
new activities to do with kids and young people
how to overcome problems in working with children
young people and experts that work with children should work together regardles of
nationality
different countries approach
creating new ideas
exchange of experiences

5. This process is called "Semantic differential". Highlight on each continuum only one point (x)
that express your attitude towards the conference.

Participants have expressed their attitude towards the conference through semantic differential
scale. The results obtained display that the participants find the conference very important,
good, successful, optimistic, positive, active and warm. Participants have, on average, chosen the
positive side of the scale, showing tendency towards very positive notions.

6. What changes, regarding the conference organisation, do you propose?

Here are some of the most mentioned sugestions for the organisation of the conferene:

Not to devide lectures organise it so that everyone can listen to all lectures
Smaler conference room
To last longer so that schedule doesn't have to be so crowded
More workshops
More time for dissccusion
Less Power Point Presentations more interactive work
More promotional materials

We can conclude that the participants felt good during the conference, that there were many
things that they were satisfied with, and only few reasons for dissatisfaction. The conference had
an abundance of ideas on offer that could be used in the classroom practice at different levels.
Having had diverse forms, the conference created situations in which the participants could feel
creative, but this was always a matter of personal choice.