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DigCompEdu: from formal to non-formal, enriching digital youth work!

2021-2-BE05-KA153-YOU-0000388112021Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: BE|ES|GE|EL|AL|MK|RO|SI · Grant: €21,114
Digital youth workDigital content, technologies and practicesInclusion of marginalised young people

Objectives

By implementing this project, YPA is seeking to meet the need faced by youth workers in the recent and upcoming years through the analysis, assimilation and exploitation of the DigCompEdu framework, confident that new technologies & digital ways, are a powerful tool for transforming the learning process and the society we live in. The project goes in conjuction with the results stemming from the report entitled "The impact of new technologies on the labour market and the social economy ", released by the European Parliament in 2018, that highlights that young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to receive the support they might need and risk falling years behind if their families are unable to provide them with the stimulation they will need later in life. As a result, youth workers and the digital youth work they are required to be involved in, face new and rapidly changing demands. Young people are becoming progressively digital and therefore youth workers must be prepared to adapt, ready to develop new non-formal teaching methodologies, self-assessment tools, competences and digital skills. Based on this, the three general objectives of the project were: 1. Increasing the digital competences of youth workers ensuring better professionalisation and motivation of their work. 2 Increase the quality and recognition of the non-formal work conducted by youth organisations, especially through the boost of digital youth work and the innovation of their methods and structures. 3 Ensure greater inclusivity of young people and disadvantaged young people into the digital and technological era. More concretely, the project was aiming at: 1 Increasing youth workers understanding on the Digital Competence for Educators and how it may be used and exploited in a non-formal learning context. 2 Improving youth worker’s professional engagement & use of digital technologies for communication, collaboration and professional development to respond creatively and responsibly to new technologies in relation to young people. 3 Improving youth worker’s professional competences to create & share digital resources; enhance their digital learning &teaching non-formal methodologies & assess and evaluate their non-formal teaching impact and their specific target groups learning processes. 4 Equipping youth workers with digital competences to engage and address better young people, especially those with a disadvantage background. 5 Supplying youth workers with a common language and a logic starting point for developing, comparing and discussing different instruments for developing their own digital competences and share them in a national, regional or local level. 6. Fostering a stronger sense of partnerships between participating organisations and increasing their ability to operate transnationally and in cooperation with international partners for better engagement of European youngsters’ challenges

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