DiGi YOUTH: Innovative Training for Digital Youth Work and Inclusive Youth Organisations

Completed

DiGi YOUTH: Innovative Training for Digital Youth Work and Inclusive Youth Organisations

DiGi YOUTH: Innovative Training for Digital Youth Work and Inclusive Youth Organisations

Contract Number

2019-3-SK02-KA205-002312

Description

DiGi YOUTH aims to promote quality youth work through supporting open and innovative practices in a digital era. The project objectives are as follows:

– Share good digital youth work practices across Europe and provide networking platform leading to improved practice and innovation within the European youth work community via the DiGi YOUTH Work hub;

– Build capacity of youth workers to respond to digitalisation through training that meets their needs, based on gamification, specifically via the DiGi YOUTH Simulation game;

– Improve digital youth work planning and the development of relevant strategies and methods or tools through increasing awareness of requirements for and best practices in application of digital youth work among youth workers and youth organisations’ staff, summarised and shared as DiGi YOUTH Work manual;

– Improve digital/social media and information literacy of youth workers and especially youth organisations to engage with and support young people, and enhance their capacities to use (multi)media as youth work tool via DiGi YOUTH Media manual;

– Raise awareness of digital youth work within the youth work sector and among policy makers and funders nationally and EU wide.

The main target groups are youth workers and representatives of youth organisations.

Project Website

Start Date

01/02/2020

End Date

30/11/2021

Budget

133.252,00 €

Institutional Budget

25.933,00 €

Coordinator

European Dialogue – Slovakia

Program

Erasmus+ Programme- Key Action 2- Strategic Partnerships for Youth

Status

COMPLETED

Partners

  • Yasar University – Turkey
  • Higher Incubator Giving Growth and Sustainability (HIGGS) – Greece
  • The Future Now (Sdruzhenie Badeshteto Sega) – Bulgaria

Institutional Project Coordinator

Dr. Lecturer Efthymia STAIOU