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Digital Upgrade for Youth Workers

2020-2-UK01-KA105-0795642020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: UK|LT|TR|SK|RO|EL|NL|PL|HR|FR · Grant: €25,484
New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training coursesICT - new technologies - digital competencesAccess for disadvantaged

Objectives

By implementing our project we trained youth workers from 10 different programme countries. Significant number of youth workers do not have enough digital skills and positive attitudes to ICT to increase the quality of their youth work and need to know how to support their work with technology and how to choose right digital devices and application to integrate technology in their work (Ireland National Youth Council, 2016, European Commission, 2018) As Acting Global, we decided to organise a training course to improve youth workers' digital skills to starting from this fact with the collaboration of international partners as the problem is common in Europe. Our Objectives were: * To improve competences of youth workers on the features of the new media and digital tools to produce qualified educational opportunities and reach awareness raising activities regarding disadvantaged groups to wider audience, * To enable youth workers to share their problems experienced by disadvantaged groups, experiences and good practices for supporting their work with new media and digital tools, * To improve youth workers' skills in digital tools, communication, democratic decision making, creativity, idea development and teamwork skills * To create and build a network of NGOs into innovative ICT practices for learning, experience sharing and promoting good practices. * To inform youth workers about the functions of Erasmus + programs in solving the common problems of the European Union and to encourage them to cooperate in other projects by networking among them. We involved participants with fewer opportunities, technology integration, new media tools through training activities designed based on project's objectives and develop new activities to make contribution to the existing works on this issue. Impact on the participants: * Improvement on their competences regarding people with disadvantages backgrounds, forms of discrimination and intolerance, cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, new media and its features, efficient technology integration and technology integration model, online evaluation tools, visual literacy and message design, video and photograph shooting techniques and digital storytelling and its tool as they will attend NFE activities designed in this direction. * Improvement on their knowledge about Erasmus+ program and its key actions as well as being encouraged to take part in future projects as they will attend Erasmus+ and NGO fair activities. * With teamwork, participants broke their prejudices, increase their positive awareness about other cultures and develop communication skills for different cultures. * Participants improved their english language competences as the language of the project is English. * Participants learnt how to identify their learning needs and how to manage their learning process through daily reflections and final evaluation

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