Institutional Strengthening Fund
The Institutional Strengthening Fund is responsible for raising the competences of the organization members and managing human resources. The Fund aims to ensure the conditions for institutional strengthening and the consistent development of competences in the organization.
Institutional strengthening - what is it?
Processes focused on the need-based improvement of an organization and its individual units or activities, the development of general and specific competences of its members, strengthening of institutional memory, initiation of the development of tools, tools and methods necessary for activities.
In Year 2021–2022 Institutional Strengthening Fund was led by:
- Augustė Grakavinaitė (pirmininkė)
- Laima Jasionytė
- Inga Vederytė
- Gintarė Zinkevičiūtė
- Julija Jarutytė
- Goda Žvirblytė (iki 2022 vasario mėn.)
Projects
This year, the Institutional Strengthening Fund not only took care of the development of competences of the members of the organization, but also carried out the following projects:
- Renewed training application;
- The position document of the human resources coordinator has been updated, which has also been adapted for the coordinators of the projects, clubs and programs of VU SR;
- A memory of the outgoing training has been prepared;
- "Leadership ABC" was prepared and two leadership workshops were organized (one in September, next in February);
- The database of the lecturers has been updated;
- The program of the mentors is being reviewed – mentors, the structure and functioning of the program (this year the mentor had 16 people);
- Preparing a pass of experience memo;
Other activities
This year, systematic work on human resources continued:
- During the Vasara period, joint planning of the areas took place according to the most important problems identified during the Summer Bureau-Council exit;
- And then there were regular meetings between the Institutional Strengthening Foundation and human resources coordinators (6 in total) to discuss topics relevant to the organization and its members:
- Attracting and retaining members;
- Time management;
- Feedback;
- The emotional environment;
- Winding meetings;
- Pass of the experience;
- Organization and planning of trainings.
- The processes of raising competencies took place not only during trainings, but also during regular, general meetings, simulations;
- ISF training on teamwork organized to VU SA ŠA;
- More central training occurred: - Training of curators; - Management training; - Training of SPC student representatives; - Survey development training; - Training on individual needs.