DIG IN strategic partnership will offer new tools for NEETs outreach and engagement (via ICT & digital mentoring) and personal development (using collaborative learning and networking) to increase their possibility for employment and social inclusion. Our project proposes a programme that addresses the personal development of NEET, focusing especially on building their motivation for participating in society and contributing to the labour market, increasing their confidence as citizens, while enhancing employability skills using entrepreneurship as an activator for interest and using new ICT based strategies to get in touch with others. With the dynamically changing world of the working environment driven by technological advancement and global connectivity, youth remain confronted with a multifaceted employment challenge which includes unemployment, under-employment, and low job quality, as well as working poverty, job insecurity and long transitions to stable and satisfactory employment. These challenges are also connected with the issues related with engaging NEET youth and the one disconnected by society and the offering more outreach strategies more suited with the so-called “digital natives”. The project’s scope is two folded *offer a new OUTREACH strategy that make use of ICT and new media to increase NGOs and youth associations’ ability to reach, engage and motivate NEETs *Prepare a COLLABORATIVE LEARNING space where NEETs can create new opportunities for themselves and connecting with peers, while enhancing their employability and entrepreneurial skills The online/off-line individual and group activities will enable to build up life skills and basic knowledge to perform informed choices regarding further education, their training, employment and most of all civic participation, and enabling them to overcome barriers to participation in different spheres of their lives. The project will start with equipping EDUCATORS with more sophisticated ICT skills and tools, to allow them to define the best blends among on/off-line, individual or group activities, and allowing participants to control their own timing and schedule. As there is no single method that works best to reach, engage and motivate young NEETs, different channels should be used depending on the specific group targeted using also different types of media including social media. The consortium will capitalize on the capacity and skills offered by the 6 partners to create tools and products that can be easily used by a variety of actors. Considering the increasing importance of ICT in the global market and the employment opportunities connected to it, increasing ICT literacy and entrepreneurial mind-sets are widespread objectives in the EU28, thus the root-based initiative like this one can offer a good starting point for the improvement of the learning provision. The project can be used as baseline practice for digital skills development for other similar initiatives, expanding as an example to youth work and civil society initiative as a mean to validate skills acquired through a non-formal or informal education. For this reason, a version of the contents will be created in English to facilitate a wider diffusion.
The project’s scope is two folded: - offer a new OUTREACH strategy that make use of ICT and new media to increase NGOs and youth associations’ ability to reach, engage and motivate NEETs - prepare a COLLABORATIVE LEARNING space where NEETs can create new opportunities for themselves and connecting with peers, while enhancing their employability and entrepreneurial skills. The project has started with equipping EDUCATORS with more sophisticated ICT skills and tools, to allow them to define the best blends among on/off-line, individual or group activities, and allowing participants to control their own timing and schedule. As there was no single method that worked best to reach, engage and motivate young NEETs, different channels have been used depending on the specific group targeted using also different types of media including social media.
DIG IN strategic partnership has offered a new ways for NEETs outreach and engagement(via ICT&digital mentoring)and personal development to increase their possibility for employment and social inclusion.DIG IN strategic partnership has offered a new strategy and tools useful to youth association and NGOs to plan new ways for engaging and reaching NEETs affected by socioeconomic barriers(migrants background,weak family support,early school leavers)and motivate them to take part in an empowerment program that will use entrepreneurship as motivation for participating in society and contributing to the labour market.With the dynamically changing world of the working environment driven by technological advancement and global connectivity,youth remain confronted with a multifaceted employment challenge which includes unemployment,under-employment and low job quality,as well as working poverty,job insecurity and long transitions to stable and satisfactory employment.According to the Digital Skills Indicator,in 2017,43% of the EU young population had an insufficient level of digital skills and 17%had none at all(https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/digcomp)and young people despite being called‘digital natives’do not naturally possess the skills for an effective use of technologies,and the skills they acquired informally are likely to be incomplete and not applicable as‘workplace skills’.