Sofiana's Erasmus+ experience

Digital Youth Work Lab training course was held on 3/7-9/7 in Bologna, Italy. The main objective of the youth workers mobility was the improvement of the digital skills of the participants and the creation of a civic oriented toolkit of activities and tools with online perspective to be used by NGOs for this purpose all through the mapping and gapping of resources and practices connected to digitalisation was a key part of this process. Analysis of its current state is crucial in formulating the understanding on how to move forward with digital transformation related work in a youth sector-centered way. Digital transformation is a complex and continually-changing process that affects nearly all areas of the youth field. The digital transformation process is continually evolving – as are its methods, projects and tools. Digital youth work can use technology to make youth work services more accessible and relevant. It can create opportunities and spaces in which young people can develop a critical, innovative and value-based perspective on the digital transformation, and become the co constructors of a positive digital future. During the days of the project we also talked about the ethics of digitalisation and digital rights, social media, and exchanged tools and good practices to use in our work and transfer it to our NGOs for providing more qualitative activities in the communities, catchy content and promoting active citizenship.Some of the activities we had were open space workshops and project factory in the form of content creation. Everyday we had reflection groups to disseminate our experience. Overall, we had an amazing time, we participated in exciting and interesting activities and met new friends from Italy, Germany, Poland, Romania and Portugal.

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