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Employing European Youth Through Non-formal Education: The Digital Competence Framework

2020-2-BE04-KA105-0027112020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: BE|RS|MK|AL|LT|IT|HU|SK|GE|TR|EL|PL|ES · Grant: €23,846
Access for disadvantagedYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)ICT - new technologies - digital competences

Objectives

According to the European Commission in the brochure “Digital skills for all Europeans” published in 2019, from 83% of Europeans using the internet regularly up to 43% of them do not have basic digital skills. The research showed they cannot send emails, search for information on the web, make video calls, and shop or pay their bills online. Research also pointed out that 90% of the jobs in all sectors require digital skills, but 35% of the labor force does not have basic of those digital competences. Realising that digital skills are key for the empowerment and inclusion of especially disadvantaged youth, the Consortium of this project decided to work on better-providing youth workers with the needed digital skills that they need to successfully increase the digital skills of the disadvantaged youth groups they work with. Those competencies will help them to start new activities and programs aiming to foster digital skills among the disadvantaged youth groups they work with. This training has been created and designed to meet the new challenges that the COVID19 health crisis has created for us in terms of digitalisation. Youth workers must be prepared to adapt, cooperate and be part of the change. Therefore, the two main objectives to be achieved through the implementation of the training were: First, to increase the digital skills of youth workers based on the European Digital Competence Framework and secondly, to increase European disadvantaged youngsters’ rates of social and labor market inclusion through the development of digital skills and competences. The specific objectives of this mobility for youth workers were: - Creating a space for supporting further practical use and awareness of the European Digital Competence Framework through non-formal education; - Increased youth workers' understanding of the European Digital Competence Framework and how to develop its 21 defined digital competences; - Set up effective non-formal education tools and activities for teaching digital skills to disadvantaged youngsters; - Raise youth workers' ability to understand the disadvantaged youth groups they work with; - Boost the digital literacy and positive participation in digital citizenship of youth workers; - Develop cultural awareness and digital intercultural cooperation of youth workers; - Empower youth organisations and youth workers by developing their digital competencies and their capacity to operate transnationally.

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