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Digital Citizens - Youth Participation in Digital Era

2020-1-PL01-KA105-0787182020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: PL|IT|SK|UA|LT|GE|AZ|MD · Grant: €24,435
EU Citizenship, EU awareness and DemocracyYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

Objectives

"Digital Citizens - Youth Participation in Digital Era" seeks for innovative structures of youth participation, build capacity in Partner Countries, develop understanding of critical thinking and importance of active citizenship thus participation and further includes todays world phenomena digitalization to this strong fundamentals of participation. One one side to interact and exchange of practice from EU countries to Partner countries, where supporting the EU countries as well develop strong youth engagement in dicision making processes where available digital where traditional routes of meaningfull youth participation at its heart. Digital Citizens will take place in Wroclaw, Poland 5-12 October 2020 and will gather 35 youth workers, youth leaders and people working with youth, decision makers, representatives from institutions working with youth from 8 different program and partner countries: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Italy, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine. Digital Citizens project has the main focus to support the youth policy in partner countries through: - building capacity of youth policy institutions and youth NGOs on participatory youth policy development; - analyzing and developing ideas for use of inclusive co-management structures (online and offline); - developing clear youth participation schemes, connecting national and local levels and develop recommendations for youth policy and youth strategy; - contributing to development of civil society, through creation of regional youth policy structures and implementation of co-management principles; - sharing good practices from youth policy implementation and youth work development in Poland, Lithuania and EU; - discuss the current trends (e-participation, other), strategies, needs of youth policy making, youth participation, youth work in Partner Countries and EU. During our project personal development of participants will provide them better chances for employability as experts. Their awareness and understanding of different cultures, other partner countries and practice of democracy will be developed. Finally, participants will have more opportunities and knowledge on social, ecoomic and political participation as new "Digital Citizens", build their online network promoting changes, developing youth policy in their society. Our project's main link with Erasmus+ programme is that TC will support learners in the development of competences on youth policy, youth participation, democracy and advocacy which will support them in the promotion of postive change.

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