QUEST and CDE screened the documentary about the BUSTA project
The documentary about the project BUSTA was screened at the EUDEC 2023 conference, allowing us to jointly discuss the experience of students building soft skills through participation in training with therapy with dogs, horses, and dolphins in three different countries in Europe. The Democratic Education community organized a photography exhibition about the students experiences during […]
July 2023
We welcomed this month with a full office, as Martina, one of our two coordinators, joined us for a fulfilling and challenging couple of weeks. It was the opportunity to talk about how everything is going so far, meet the future policy and project officers at QUEST (!), and organise the coming summer months which […]
June 2023
After an eventful few weeks, we are back with plenty to report! June started with the famous on-arrival training organised by our national agency (JINT). We spent a week in a beautiful venue one hour south of Brussels, together with other 30 ESC volunteers working all around Belgium. Various activities were set up with the […]
QUEST hosts therapy dog Aika, while the team work to finalise the documentary for screening in Sofia
The Belgian activities regarding the BUSTA project were all revolving around Aika, the therapy dog in training from the organisation Dyadis, of which the experiences are filmed and visible in the project documentary. As the team was working on the editing, gathering information in order to create the credits at the end, and working on […]
QUEST attends the movie challenge screening at CDE school in Sofia
Following the 2 days of BUSTA meetings, the QUEST team, with it’s 4 European Solidarity Corps volunteers, had the opportunity to join the students at the Community of Democratic Education at their school. This was a special day, as the whole community gathered for a screening of the results of a student’s movie-making challenge. As […]
BUSTA Transnational Project Meeting in Sofia
All partners from Belgium, Bulgaria, and Lithuania have gathered in Sofia the 3rd and 4th of May for 3rd and 4th of May for the project’s midterm TPM. We have reviewed the progress of the video documentary (PR1), the Impact Report (PR2) and set the structure of the Guidelines (PR3). Our next step will be the […]
May 2023
A month has already passed since our arrival to Brussels. The 17th of April, we, Mathilda, Agata, Sara and Marta, started our first day at QUEST. After an intense training week, we celebrated with a smokey party, together with other QUEST members. We just had time to settle down and explore some of the amazing […]
Meeting one final time for the YEAT project, to further boost the YEAT Guidelines!
The end of #YEAT project, organised with partners PQHF (Bulgaria), Сдружение ЗА ТЕБ (Bulgaria), QUEST (Belgium) and Creativi108 (Italy). We had our last meeting to summarise the results of project and discuss the feedback received after the multiplier event and the release of the Guidelines. What is Equine Assisted Therapy? What needs does it address? […]
BUSTA partners are preparing Midterm TPM in Sofia, advancing on BUSTA documentary (PR 1), and the Impact Report (PR 2)
Our Midterm TPM will be held in Sofia on the 3rd and 4th of May 2023. We look forward to traveling to Sofia with the entire QUEST team, including our 4 new European Solidarity Corps Volunteers! Now only will we hold 2 days of meetings, but we are receiving a very special opportunity from the […]
QUEST team preparing to travel to Sofia for the final YEAT TPM
We are happy to announce that the whole QUEST team, including volunteers will soon be traveling to Sofia for the YEAT TPM. We look forward to reconnect with the rest of the partnership in this beautiful spring season!