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Technological Literacy 4.0: the way towards inclusion

2020-3-BE04-KA105-0027682020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: BE|GE|MD|FR|LT|TR|EL|MK|RS|SK|AM|HU · Grant: €21,719.88
Access for disadvantagedICT - new technologies - digital competencesYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

YouthProAktiv, is very dedicated to the topic and has contributed a lot in the past period on developing trainings and programs that will enable young people to develop their skills regarding digital competences and technological literacy, which will make them more competitive in the labor market, the feedback gathered and the results after the training are a great indicator that this kind of projects are a good way towards achieving our main objectives. Additionally, to the feedback gathered, research also shows similar results about the importance of these topics for young people. According to the European Commission in the brochure “Digital skills for all Europeans” published in 2019 the research 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. Eurostat “Key figures on Europe”, 2019 edition reports that EU-28 youth unemployment rate was 15.2% in 2018. According to Eurostat statistics “Being young in Europe today - digital world “, technical competences, are vital for youth employability but much less widespread as just 12% of young people in the EU-28 report to have them. As the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) evolves, communities, innovators, businesses, and the public sector around the world are putting technology to work to alleviate the effects of the global health crisis. A recent paper released by the European Parliament (2020) lists some of the fastest-growing technologies during the crisis due to their ability to help fight the health, social and economic impacts of the Coronavirus. Covid19 is accelerating technological change. Technological skills are a key for the empowerment of new young generations and especially for the inclusion of disadvantaged youngsters that will be left even more behind unless they become skills with the needs of a technological XXI -st century. Being technologically literate enables young people to make appropriate decisions around opportunities, risks, and consequences. Basic Technological Literacy is crucial to ensure that youngsters gain the basic skills and competences needed for full participation in labor markets and society, to face successfully the technological revolution that is undergoing. This way, the Consortium of this project decided to work on better-providing and equipping youth workers with the needed technical skills as for them to approach and skilled the youths they work with, in this concrete and every-day more-relevant competencies area. These skills empowered them to start developing and implementing new non-formal activities and programs fostering technological skills, especially among the disadvantaged youth groups. The main objectives of the project are: - To increase technological literacy skills of youth workers; - To increase labor inclusion rates on disadvantaged youngsters through the increase and empowerment of their technological skills. It is through the development of youth workers' professional competencies and the design of innovative non-formal activities and methods to better to teach technological skills that this project aims to achieve better social and labor market inclusion of our targeted disadvantaged youth groups. Under this goal, the project is also specifically aiming at: - Increase youth workers' technological skills and competencies specifically regarding (Artificial Intelligence& Robotics, Internet of Things, Big Data & Data Mining, Servitization in Industry, Biotechnologies, Blockchain, 3D Printers, Augmented Virtual Reality, and block programming); - Increase non-formal education ways and tools of technological literacy for disadvantaged youngsters as a direct way for: a) reducing the inequalities increased by the COVID-19 pandemic, b) fostering social and labor inclusion. - Increase youth workers' better understanding of the technological needs and gaps of disadvantaged youth groups and the possible training solutions that can be set up in place to tackle these needs.

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