Today's teens use many digital tools to document their lives on the Internet. Due to inexperience, they often make mistakes that affect their digital reputation, and later in life, friendships, relationships, and even job prospects. This project advocate for proactively using or addressing digital media and technology in youth work aiming to turn online participation of youth and raise awareness of responsible behaviour in a digital environment in favour of their future personal and professional development. By this project we want to contribute to the professional development of youth workers to empower education in the field of digital citizenship, supporting young people (14-18) to become active citizens in a digital society by participating online responsibly and behave correctly to protect their online reputation for their professional and social future, including those with fewer opportunities. The project will increase the capacity of the youth work sector to support young people to become active citizens in a digital society, to encourage young people to create and edit digital content and to express themselves through digital means, raising the responsible engagement of young people online. We will achieve this by applying a new methodology that will first be tested on 24 youth workers from 6 partner countries through training. After that, we will test the BYP methodology on 24 young people who will participate in mobility and further transfer the acquired knowledge to 120 of their peers from 6 partner countries. The final result will be used by a minimum of young people on the peer to peer training sessions, which will disseminate the project results raise the self-confidence of the young people. The intellectual outputs developed in this project will be: - Behave Your Prints (BYP) methodology - YourPrints T-kit: a unique educational guidebook - Digital multimedia -5 short videos
Today's teens use many digital tools to document their lives on the Internet. Due to inexperience, they often make mistakes that affect their digital reputation, and later in life, friendships, relationships, and even job prospects. This project advocate for proactively using or addressing digital media and technology in youth work aiming to turn online participation of youth and raise awareness of responsible behaviour in a digital environment in favour of their future personal and professional development. By this project we want to contribute to the professional development of youth workers to empower education in the field of digital citizenship, supporting young people (14-18) to become active citizens in a digital society by participating online responsibly and behave correctly to protect their online reputation for their professional and social future, including those with fewer opportunities. The project will increase the capacity of the youth work sector to support young people to become active citizens in a digital society, to encourage young people to create and edit digital content and to express themselves through digital means, raising the responsible engagement of young people online. We will achieve this by applying a new methodology that will first be tested on 24 youth workers from 6 partner countries through training. After that, we will test the BYP methodology on 24 young people who will participate in mobility and further transfer the acquired knowledge to 120 of their peers from 6 partner countries. The final result will be used by a minimum of young people on the peer to peer training sessions, which will disseminate the project results raise the self-confidence of the young people. The intellectual outputs developed in this project will be: - Behave Your Prints (BYP) methodology - YourPrints T-kit: a unique educational guidebook - Digital multimedia -5 short videos