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DigiComp 2020

2020-2-SK02-KA105-0025722020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: SK|LT|ES|CY|MK|HU|BG|IT|RO|TR · Grant: €19,130
ICT - new technologies - digital competences

Objectives

Once we were working together with the consortium for us the first and most important thing was to share objectives we wanted to achieve with this project. Out of different researches made we understood that it was needed in our communities and at international level more updated and keeping the track of youth work methods and approaches with young people. The crisis of COVID-19 contributed to emphasize this lack in many organisations, in fact once we did our researches among international networks many of our organisations were in, local networks, other colleagues youth workers who suddenly found out the need to update digital tools, cause digital revolution is here and now. Even in the main objectives of Erasmus plus Programme in 2019 it was one of the main objectives to promote digital youth work, the creation of a Digital Framework of Competences and also a linked educational approach to be used by educators, youth workers, teachers and professors in their work it was a sign which was clearly pushing for that. All the organisations involved in this project identified something they developed by using digital tools, e-learning platforms examples, digital citizenship approach, virtual exchanges, debates and many other tied methods and we thought it would be nice to get together and share our practices to improve each other, create new ones and create concrete material/handouts which could be available for all youth workers who didn’t manage to update but especially for young people. Out of our research we made through the use of statistics and already existing researches we understood that internet is used by an high percentage of people, young people especially have it in their daily life, internet became a common good which is decreasing costs and it is more and more available for all the population. Most important thing since we knew all partners by doing digital activities what were the issues related to connection also for young disadvantaged people we face also the topic of digital divide and how to deal with connection problems and finding solutions to ensure the participation of every one. By digital tools anyway we believe that we managed also to reach more young people and provide them more opportunities of participation. Virtual Exchanges, debates are opening opportunities to youngsters who live in rural area, who face disadvantages and they are not motivated to participate in face to face activities. So, out of these needs we strongly believe that through our project we equiped more youth workers, organisations, teachers, institutions to improve their approach to young people with youth friendly instruments involving them in online debates in safe spaces. Moreover, we believe that consequently providing handouts, tool-kit is a source of improvement for any youngster who is involved in youth workers who will be using the materials created and the participation of young people will be increased.

Project partners (10)