Digital Youth Work
2018-3-DE04-KA205-017182
Our Partners
- Plattform.E.V
Project description
Digital@Youth Work – An innovative programme to equip young people with advanced digital skills to meet the needs of the labour market
The D@YW project pioneers to design a Complete Tool Kit and a Knowledge Pack for developing, implementing and monitoring various inclusive strategies for promoting deep digital skills in youth work aiming to bridge the digital gap and promote the creation of partnerships between the Youth Work, stakeholders, institutions, the labour market, policy maker, ICT experts, providers and enterprises by: Utilizing the non-working time available in a constructive way to set up DIGITAL@YOUTHWORK Clubs/Labs while providing access opportunities for participation for young people with fewer opportunities, especially girls. Creating synergies between Youth organizations, Schools and the business world in order to bridge the skills-gap between education and the labour market.
Introducing the Open Badges as a method to validate and award the digital skills acquired by both the Youth People and Youth Workers thus achieving transferability, credibility and transparency. Creating transnational cooperation between partners for the organization of competitions, events, C1 mobility, digital movement as part of the EU strategy.
The direct target group is young people (16-22 yrs.) in need, especially girls as purported by the 2018 Digital Action Plan, whereas an indirect target group is youth workers, whose profiles will be upgraded and strengthened.
The project will be prepared with a professional development course for digital up skilling. One will introduce the DIGITAL@YOUTHWORK program with the intended progress and the needed indicators. A validation system is also proposed to make digital skills visible, transparent and recognised.
The project in its entirety persecute the goal attainment of development of deep tech digital skills as striven for in recent reports of the EU, e.g. 2018 Digital Action Plan, 2017 New Skills Agenda, 2018 Renewed Key Competences as approach to bridge the digital gap with labour.
Project objectives
The project aims to strengthen the profiles of the Youth Workers and also upgrade the quality of Youth Work through the development of Complete Tool Kit accompanied with a set of new teaching and learning material to support the acquisition of high-tech digital skills of young people.
Project description
Digital@Youth Work – An innovative programme to equip young people with advanced digital skills to meet the needs of the labour market
The D@YW project pioneers to design a Complete Tool Kit and a Knowledge Pack for developing, implementing and monitoring various inclusive strategies for promoting deep digital skills in youth work aiming to bridge the digital gap and promote the creation of partnerships between the Youth Work, stakeholders, institutions, the labour market, policy maker, ICT experts, providers and enterprises by: Utilizing the non-working time available in a constructive way to set up DIGITAL@YOUTHWORK Clubs/Labs while providing access opportunities for participation for young people with fewer opportunities, especially girls. Creating synergies between Youth organizations, Schools and the business world in order to bridge the skills-gap between education and the labour market.
Introducing the Open Badges as a method to validate and award the digital skills acquired by both the Youth People and Youth Workers thus achieving transferability, credibility and transparency. Creating transnational cooperation between partners for the organization of competitions, events, C1 mobility, digital movement as part of the EU strategy.
The direct target group is young people (16-22 yrs.) in need, especially girls as purported by the 2018 Digital Action Plan, whereas an indirect target group is youth workers, whose profiles will be upgraded and strengthened.
The project will be prepared with a professional development course for digital up skilling. One will introduce the DIGITAL@YOUTHWORK program with the intended progress and the needed indicators. A validation system is also proposed to make digital skills visible, transparent and recognised.
The project in its entirety persecute the goal attainment of development of deep tech digital skills as striven for in recent reports of the EU, e.g. 2018 Digital Action Plan, 2017 New Skills Agenda, 2018 Renewed Key Competences as approach to bridge the digital gap with labour.
Project Objectives
The project aims to strengthen the profiles of the Youth Workers and also upgrade the quality of Youth Work through the development of Complete Tool Kit accompanied with a set of new teaching and learning material to support the acquisition of high-tech digital skills of young people.
Our Partners
- Plattform.E.V