Digital Innovation in Youth Work
Discover how digital tools and innovative training can transform youth work. This project empowers youth workers to navigate the digital age effectively, enhancing their skills and fostering meaningful connections with young people.
Target groups
For teachers
Gain advanced digital skills and strategies to engage youth effectively in a digital environment.
For students
Experience innovative learning opportunities that empower creativity, collaboration, and active citizenship.
Project Description
Over 10 months, the project empowered 25 youth workers to transform their toolkits into digital resources, master advanced digital tools, and integrate virtual components into their youth engagement. The goals were to improve digital proficiency, foster engagement strategies, and enhance teamwork in online settings. Participants gained confidence, creativity, and ethical awareness, ultimately enhancing their impact on young people and communities.
The training offered a comprehensive experience, fostering connections, digital skills, and addressing digital challenges. Energisers and daily reflections maintained motivation, with optional evening sessions for additional activities and bonding.
Project goals
The project provided comprehensive insights into digital youth work, including strategies for promoting Erasmus+ opportunities, effective use of digital tools, and managing counterproductive habits. It supported informed practice, fostering innovation, ethical practices, and effective communication to maximise positive impact.
How do these objectives contribute to the overall mission of the L’ Ecole Des Valeurs association?
The project enhanced digital competencies, aligning with the mission to promote values-based education and youth empowerment. It enriched the educational landscape and prepared young individuals for a digital world.
Skills obtained at the end of the project
Fostering a reflective, critical and open-minded approach to digital change. Participants developed the ability to critically assess digital content and proficiency in creating digital content. They used technology to support active citizenship, social inclusion, collaboration, and goal achievement. Awareness of the opportunities, limitations, effects, and risks associated with using digital tools were emphasised, along with understanding how digital technologies can enhance communication, creativity, and innovation.
Additionally, participants enhanced personal, social, and ‘learning-to-learn’ competence, including confidence in achieving goals, decision-making skills, and constructive communication in diverse environments. Respect for diversity, assertiveness, and motivation was also cultivated, along with an understanding of codes of conduct in digital contexts.
Description of beneficiaries, partners and founder
Participants will tailor activities to align with youth interests, engage in discussions about ethical dilemmas in digitalization, and strengthen virtual team-building skills. They will utilize digital technologies for group collaboration, implement activities using 12 digital tools, and evaluate personal concepts for integrating digital aspects into youth work. Through reflective practice and effective communication, participants will create engaging activities supported by digital media, involving youth and elevating the visibility of youth worker initiatives.
Partners:
- Aktive Kosmos (Spain)
- ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE BUBBURRIGA (Italy)
- Asociatia Scoala De Valori (Romania)
- You Simply Can Foundation (Poland)
Funders: ERASMUS +
Project Goals
Promote opportunities for Youth, encouraging young people to participate and benefit from educational and intercultural experiences through digital platforms.
We seek to educate young people on how to manage their online time and help them overcome counterproductive digital habits, promoting balanced and beneficial use of technology.
How do these objectives contribute to the overall mission of the L’ Ecole Des Valeurs association?
Skills Obtained at the End of the Project
Fostering a reflective, critical and open-minded approach to digital change. Participants developed the ability to critically assess digital content and proficiency in creating digital content. They used technology to support active citizenship, social inclusion, collaboration, and goal achievement. Awareness of the opportunities, limitations, effects, and risks associated with using digital tools were emphasised, along with understanding how digital technologies can enhance communication, creativity, and innovation. Additionally, participants enhanced personal, social, and ‘learning-to-learn’ competence, including confidence in achieving goals, decision-making skills, and constructive communication in diverse environments. Respect for diversity, assertiveness, and motivation was also cultivated, along with an understanding of codes of conduct in digital contexts.
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Incubatorul Civic Digital se adresează profesorilor și elevilor din liceele și școlile gimanziale din țară.
Profesorii deprind noi cunoștințe pentru a-și motiva elevii să devină cetățeni activi, informați și responsabili, în online și offline.
Presenting the real impact
The project inspired a new generation of exceptional trainers, elevating the quality of youth training across partner organisations. The ripple effect of improved sessions positively impacted countless young individuals, fostering growth, empowerment, and learning.
