The Glocal Move: Local Action, Global Impact project creates a 5 civil society organizations partnership whose purpose is to develop, for 26 months, two main products. The first one is a “gamified” digital platform for the civic participation of young people, with two main objectives: 1) to create challenges that can be implemented at local, national and European level and that contribute to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and 2) increase youth involvement and civic participation, whether at local, national or European level. The second product is a guide to support the use of the platform that allows youth workers to develop techniques to dynamize the platform. The idea for this project arises from the verification of two facts: 1) only two European countries - Ireland and Germany - are among those where civic participation is highest worldwide, and 2) the level of civic participation among the youngest - young people aged 15 to 29 - has not increased significantly at a global scale in the past 7 years (data from the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) World Giving Index, A global view of giving trends October 2018 report (www.cafonline. org)). This new platform is intended to be a space in which young people and organizations whose work is directed to them organize themselves collaboratively, in a “gamified” format, to enable active involvement in activities that can range from small solidarity gestures, carried out individually and punctually, to organized actions, such as participation in public or political matters, including defense / support to specific causes, obtaining information from public authorities, associative participation or volunteering. The project will have 8 components: 1) management; 2) platform (Intellectual Output 1); 3) guide for youth workers (Intellectual Output 2); 4) transnational project meetings; 5) inter-partner training; 6) multiplier events; 7) communication; 8) dissemination and sustainability. These 8 components will be coordinated by the project's promoter, Pista Mágica - Escola de Voluntariado and each partner will be responsible for one or more components of the project, so that the results are the two products identified above. It is intended to have an impact on the youth layer of society, increasing the number of young people and organizations involved in local projects, with a global impact.
The "Glocal Move: Local Action, Global Impact" project aimed to:promote civic participation, volunteering, solidarity and active citizenship among young people; improve and deepen the political, civic and social participation of young people at different levels; strengthen young people's sense of initiative in the social field and in supporting their communities; promote synergies between different intervention areas relevant to young people; enhance synergies between the different domains of civic intervention; create systemic processes of participation in democratic and civic life at all levels; promote quality and innovation in youth work and cooperation between youth professionals; promote the support and capacity building of youth professionals, leaders and educational entities that work with/for young people; promote good work practices with/for young people; reinforce the international dimension of activities in the youth sector; strengthen the capacity of youth organizations to support young people; create a tool for creative civic engagement based on ICT; improve young people's digital skills and abilities, without distinction of any kind; and use open resources and innovative practices (gamification) in the digital era.
The main objective of the project was to promote and increase the involvement of young people in civic activities and active citizenship. The goal was to find a way to motivate and captivate more young people for civic participation, promoting a more active society in the countries that participated in this project. Based on this, the project tackled a very concrete need: the low civic participation of young people between 14 and 30 years old. To this end, Glocal Move motivated and stimulated civic participation through a digital platform, using “gamified” processes, that is, using the (motivational) techniques of digital games. It also trained youth workers to boost their participation through this platform. The platform is now a convergent and dynamic place, where individuals, young people and civil society organizations create challenges that are carried out at local, national and European level by registered users. These challenges are all linked with one or more Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which allows for greater achievement of the same. By meeting the digital skills of young people, Glocal Move intended to increase their involvement and civic participation and support youth professionals in this task.