The project ‘Digital Tools: to Engage, to Empower, to Connect’ aimed to achieve the following: -to increase the capacities of both organizations to use digital tools to develop the competencies of young people: to get to know new tools that the organizations can use in their work e.g., when delivering online workshops, and training but also when aiming to get to know the needs of the young people; to increase the skills of the organization’s members to actively and effectively use these tools at their daily work and also to encourage the staff members to be proactive and look for new possibilities that the digital tools offers; -to increase the abilities of the organizations to use digital tools to make the organization’s work more visible and engage with wider communities, e.g., by using tools to create promotional and visibility materials; -to strengthen the position of the organizations in their communities, make them more attractive to young people but also to promote themselves at local, and international levels to create new contacts, and establish partnerships with a special focus to be paid to cross-sectorial cooperation, especially with the educational sector which is essential to both organizations.
‘Mission: Reconnect’, Czechia, and ‘ASK-Skopje’, North Macedonia applied for the project ‘Digital Tools: to Engage, to Empower, to Connect’ with the motivation to increase capacities of both organizations in the area of digital youth work. In this context, the organizations aimed to get to know new digital tools, and develop competencies of the staff and organization’s members to use these digital tools regularly when working with young people, youth workers, and representatives of the educational sector on their personal and professional development but also when attracting community members to join their activities and cooperating with the representatives of other sectors. Through the 15-month project, we aimed to address the following needs: to wider the portfolio of digital tools used by both organizations, to increase the capacities of both organizations to use digital tools to create interactive and engaging activities targeting young people, promote the work of the organizations, establish new contacts and increase their capacities needed to administrate projects supported by the Erasmus + Programme.