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Staying safe online, youth workers and digital security

2019-3-DE04-KA105-0185662019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: DE|BG|PL|TR|LT|MK · Grant: €20,615
ICT - new technologies - digital competencesResearch and innovationYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

This training course offers training and participation in activities for 25 youth workers from 6 EU NGOs. All of these participants will gain new experiences in the field of Internet technology and how to protect themselves from the disadvantages of the Internet and digital technologies. All participants will have the opportunity to participate in a project that will be implemented in 8 days in active collaboration and activities that will be interactive and interesting for the participants. During this training course, different types of learning models and exchange of practices will be realized: professional presentations, video presentations, debates, exchange of intercultural experiences, presentation of national models, educational games, promotion of EU cultures, simulations , student visits, forum theater, role play, forum cafe. Through this project the applicant organization wants to improve the knowledge of the participants by involving an expert (trainer) and to improve the organizational capacities of the organizations participating in this training course. The program of this course offers the opportunity for active inclusion and promotion of persons with less opportunities in intercultural activities and their socialization. Participants in this training course will have great opportunities to improve their personal performance. Through interactive collaboration they will be able to improve their communication skills and learn new foreign languages. In this project, the official working language will be English. All participants will be able to improve their communication skills using English. Also, through interactive collaboration participants will have the opportunity to meet new friends and youth workers so they can exchange opinions, ideas and solve problems. The training course offers opportunities for presenting the participants and improving their organizational skills. Participants will be involved in activities for organizing intercultural dinners where they will present their traditions, cultures and organizations. Participants with these activities will have the opportunity to improve their organizational and management skills. The purpose of this training course is: 1) Actively introduce participants to the dangers of using digital technologies and the exchange of personal data: hate speech, identity theft and cyber attack. Participants through expert presentations will have the opportunity to improve their knowledge in the field of IT technology and the use of digital tools. 2) Practical presentation and visiting of institutions for online secure. Participants will have the opportunity to be part of a visit and learn about data protection systems. They will visit Humboldt university of Berlin and attend a presentation on protecting computer systems for work. Through this visit they will have the opportunity to get acquainted with what online protection system this University is using. 3) Intensive use of a foreign language (English) in the process of communication and exchange of practices and ideas. Interactive debates using English to improve participants' communication skills. Participants will have the opportunity to improve their communication skills. 4) Promotion and inclusion of persons with fewer opportunities in activities. Through these activities, the project will promote persons with fewer opportunities and their active participation in the educational process and will offer opportunities for social adaptation and promotion of these participants in society. 5) Improve the cooperation of partner organizations and improve organizational capacity. All partner organizations will have the opportunity to improve their organizational performance and become familiar with the opportunities for digitizing their organizations and using digital tools in a fair and rational way. 6) Organizing intercultural presentations and promotion of EU cultures. All participants will be part of the intercultural presentations of all 6 NGOs. At these presentations the participants will be introduced to new cultures, languages, traditional games, food, dances. The participants will improve their knowledge through educational quizzes. 7) Active promotion of the project by using different dissemination models. Participants will be actively involved in different models for promoting project activities. Through these activities they will improve their presentation skills and participate in media collaboration activities: interviews, debates, conferences, presentations, forums etc. 8) New professional youth workers. Upon completion of the course, participants will be tasked with organizing and delivering: an internship, training or presentation that they should organize and be assisted by partner organizations. The purpose of this activity is to promote new educational staff.

Project partners (6)