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Connect With Humanity

2024-1-EL02-KA153-YOU-0002380962024Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: EL|NL|RO|HR|TR · Grant: €19,088
Digital skills and competencesDigital content, technologies and practicesQuality and innovation of youth work

Objectives

This project is designed to give youth workers the needed skills and competences to use storytelling and digital tools as a method of collecting stories of people who belong to marginalised groups and have faced violations of their rights. They want their experiences to be heard by a wider group of people. Enhanced with photographs, these written and audio narratives will be powerful vignettes in these individual's lives. The project will combine the art of storytelling with the use of digital tools and photography to train youth workers for the proper use of these tools in order to take the initiative and activate young people in their local communities to use digital storytelling and photography for the protection and promotion of human rights, as well as the prevention of inequalities and discrimination. In particular, the objectives of the project are designed to: - Develop methods and tools for youth workers to be used when working with young people and people with fewer opportunities for digital storytelling; - Promote human rights and equality for all, using digital storytelling and photography; - Equip youth workers with skills and tools to use digital storytelling as a method of defending human rights and prevent discrimination and inequalities; - Create and share personal narratives through the combination of thoughtful writing and digital media tools; - Define digital stories as “short, personal multimedia tales, promoting the form of digital expression as stories that are created by people everywhere, on any subject, and shared electronically all over the world; - Use multiple media to tell stories and provide tools for a smoother digital transformation for young people and people with fewer opportunities by figuring out new ways to tell stories; - Transform how people with different backgrounds can share experiences in a way that engages and fosters a deeper understanding of one another; - Provide tools and mechanisms for deeper listening to one another as a step to better mutual understanding; - Raise awareness among youth workers and storytellers that these stories and surrounding circumstances are notoriously important to be shared with the community; - Encourage the youth workers and young people to reflect on the challenges and risks in order to avoid negative consequences and find ways to tell impactful stories; - Promote equity and inclusion by propelling the active participation of young people with fewer opportunities and excluded groups, such as refugees, migrants, Roma, LGBT+, people with disabilities, minorities; - Raise awareness and develop the competencies of the project’s participants on the topics of human rights and education, digital transformation, understanding of different individual and collective identities together by making their voice heard; - Stimulate and support youth workers to implement activities based on digital storytelling within the local community and especially with the local youth, encouraging them to make follow-up initiatives; - Promote multilingualism, by adding participants from different ethnic groups, providing linguistic diversity and learning different languages.

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