"Youth with a Voice" is a transnational youth initiative project that aims to provide young people with the knowledge, time, resources, and help to show the world their voice and use it to create a variety of podcast episodes. Participants of this project will be18 young people from three countries - Latvia, Romania, and Great Britain, 18 - 30 years old. These young people will have a different kind of experience - youngsters with experience in creating podcasts and without it, with experience in international projects and without any experience, as well as the interests of young people will be different and the conversations will be unique. The project aims to allow the young people to create a platform - a podcast with several episodes, through which they would reach other young people, involve them in identifying topics that are important today, and finding real solutions. Through the creation of podcasts, the young people directly involved in it will take the initiative in creating new content, expressing their views, participating in local and European processes, forming talks, and taking a major project forward. As a result of the project, young people will have created 18 podcast series (6 in each country) to share on the social media of organizations and participants. During the meeting, young people will learn informally from each other to develop their skills in communication, voice and expression, conversation management, podcasting, and editing. Through group assignments and the application of practical knowledge, participants will exchange experiences, share their knowledge, and develop their competencies. Youth-created podcasts will be aimed at young people (including those who are young at heart). Project participants will be the main ones to share these podcasts through their social portals to reach the target audience of the project. The young people will have gained experience in a long-term and innovative project, which will give both them and the organizations they represent extensive experience in implementing such an international project for a whole year. During the project, young people will have developed digital competences, personal, social, and learning to learn competences, cultural awareness and expression competences, and entrepreneurial competences. The experience gained and the competencies developed will be important in the professional and private life of young people in the future. This project is a start for the participating organizations to work on a long-term podcast basis with young people. Through podcasts, young people will reach young people who will be involved in discussing important, interesting topics and will also be interested in the activities of the organizations and the activities offered. The organizations will gain experience in developing and implementing an international youth initiative, motivating participants, and organizing a joint international project. The experience gained in a whole year's project will give inspiration and learning from experience and the organization will be able to involve young people in the development of future projects.
In general, the implementation of this project had various challenges, however, we managed to implement it and the main goals of the project were achieved. The goal of the project was achieved - the participating young people were given the opportunity to create a platform - a podcast with several episodes, through which they would reach other young people, involve them in learning about today's important topics and creating real solutions. 19 young people participated in the project, at least 6 from each country, as well as people who participated as guests or support persons. Through the creation of podcasts, the directly involved young people will show initiative in creating new content, expressing their opinion, participating in local and European processes, creating conversations and moving the long-term project forward. The participants gained experience in a long-term and innovative project, which provided both them and the organizations they represented with experience in the implementation of such an international project. During the project, young people developed digital competences, personal, social and learning to learn competences, cultural understanding and expression competences and entrepreneurial competences. The acquired experience and developed competences will be important in the professional and private life of young people in the future. Through podcasts, young people wanted to reach young people who were involved in discussing important, interesting topics and would also be interested in the activities of organizations and the activities offered. The organizations gained experience in creating and implementing an international youth initiative, motivating participants and organizing a joint international project, overcoming various challenges in the process. The experience gained in the long-term project gave inspiration and learning from the experience and increased the organization's ability to involve young people in the creation of future projects as well.
"Youth with a voice" was a project of an international youth initiative with the aim of giving young people the knowledge, time, resources and help to show their voice to the world and use it to create diverse podcast episodes. This project was created by more than 19 young people from three countries - Latvia, Romania and North Macedonia, aged between 15 and 27 years. There were young people with and without experience in creating podcasts, with experience in international projects and without any experience, as well as the interests of young people were different and the conversations created by them are also unique.