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DIGITAL YOUTH

2022-1-DE04-KA152-YOU-0000543912022Mobility of young peoplefinalized
Countries: DE|MK|ES|IT|TR · Grant: €28,939
Digital safetyInclusion of marginalised young peopleDigital skills and competences

Objectives

Digital technologies expand the boundaries of information available to people if used correctly and improve human productivity, but also involve many risks ranging from addiction, cyberbullying, violations, online safety and privacy. To benefit from all the advantages of digital transformation and develop in harmony with digital society without being exposed to these risks, it is essential to contribute to the acquisition of skills for life in the digital era by providing young people with new emotional and cognitive skills. Therefore, we need new skills / skills adapted to the digital world. Although the Internet can be considered a factor of promoting individual empowerment, literature suggests that the current massive availability of information and communication technologies (TIC) can be dangerous for the well -being of users (Duradoni, Innocenti and Guazzini, 2020 ). Nowadays, young people use social media platforms to communicate with each other while they are even seated in the same environment. Here is a double -edged sword: although these digital sites and tools offer new portals for entertainment, communication, education, social interaction, on the other hand, it should be considered that their unlimited commitment with the media digital also raised serious problems. For this, there has been the exponential increase in research conducted on the excessive use of social media and their dependence. According to research, the excessive use of social media causes depression, social anxiety, less life satisfaction (Kross, 2013), poor school performance, mental physical problems, addiction, cyberbullying, fear of missing out of social media, neuroticism, deficit attention, bipolar disorders. Most people interact with social media without stopping to think what the effects on their lives are, at regional / national and European level. In addition, we are passing the difficult moment of pandemic. Some researchers have shown that people spend more time on social media and have become employees due to the blockade during the Coronavirus (Kashif, Rehman and Javed, 2020). Therefore, research underlines the design of preventive studies and intervention for young people with dependence on social media (Xuan and Amat, 2020). The main danger we focused on was the excessive and improper use of social media. We aimed to fight against addiction and motivate target groups for an adequate purpose of social media. Young people (especially disadvantaged groups) were the most important target group in this project that aimed to raise awareness of the disadvantages of excessive use of social media and increase the skills required for effective use. Most people interact with social media without stopping to think what the effects on their lives are, at regional / national and European level. Our objects were: to create awareness of the excessive and improper use of social media, improve digital skills, explore alternative ways of spending time instead of social media, encouraging collaboration through the tics, creating awareness of cyberbullying emphasizing equity e Inclusion creatively promote the use of tics, improve the use and effective management of their time on the Net involve disadvantaged groups and provide them to support self -confidence / self -esteem improve communication / linguistic skills , personal development, social harmony, innovation and creativity provides opportunities for intercultural understanding and European citizenship. Emotional and social skills are particularly important to fully benefit from digital technologies and surf safely in the online world. Being aware of the disadvantages of the use of social media and having digital skills are directly proportionate and both make people more effective in social life. In addition, it allows people to combine their digital and real lives and to avoid mental health problems associated with the abuse of digital technologies (OECD, 2019).

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