Dissemination and Communication Plan
According to the Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2024, communication and dissemination activities are aimed at sharing information about the project and results during and beyond the project life cycle. With that aim and under the Working Package 4 “Sustainability and visibility of the project” project partners created this Communication and Dissemination Plan. Main purpose of this document is to raise awareness of the project activities and to ensure that the common good practice regarding the use of force and first aid is acknowledged widely, among national authorities and first responding police officers throughout the partner countries, as well as among related agencies and services, such as fire brigades, mountain rescue services, military etc.
All project partners are considered ambassadors of the project and are encouraged and expected to be involved to different degrees in communication and dissemination efforts.
Through joint communication and dissemination activities, project partners will ensure that the impact of the project and its results is shown. Proper and intensive communication will expand partners’ network for future collaborations, raise awareness of how the EU budget is spent and show the success of European Programme.
DISSEMINATION AND COMMUNICATION PLAN
Project Impact Evaluation
The FIRST-TAC project envisages creating a training program on the use of force and basics of tactical medicine for first responding police officers, as well as conducting four pilot trainings in order to test the program. Trainers for the pilot trainings are recruited from the pool of experts/instructors involved in creating the training program, and the learners are other instructors of use of force tactics and techniques or tactical medicine from partner countries. The project included instructors as learners - even though they are not the future target group of the training - in order to give them a chance to experience it from the learner’s perspective and include them in refining the program. In addition, this was one of the early dissemination tools of the FIRST-TAC project.
The aim of the project is to influence both groups, enable them to exchange experiences and share best practices in both teaching strategies and professional content of the training.
In order to measure the impact of the project on all participants, evaluation questionnairs for both trainers and learners were created. Additionally, during the final, fourth pilot training, two focus groups were conducted to gain deeper understanding on how this project change the way its participants teach and think about teaching in their own countries.
