Project
Context & Background
Why we initiated this project
Youth work increasingly takes place online. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated this shift, but it also exposed how unevenly youth workers are equipped to design and run engaging digital activities. While young people use digital tools fluently in their personal lives, opportunities to apply those skills inside non-formal education remain limited.
Four organisations from Estonia, Armenia, Poland and Lithuania — each working directly with young people — joined forces to address this gap. By pooling our experience across very different national contexts, we aimed to design, build and share concrete digital tools that any youth worker can pick up and use.
Project Goals and Objectives
The aim of the project is to develop digital tools that facilitate and support youth work.
The sub-objectives are:
- Create and provide youth workers with the opportunity to use digital tools to carry out activities for youth.
- Encourage creative thinking among youth workers and youth through the development of digital skills and competences.
- Integrate at least eight new digital tools in the youth field.
- Motivate and inspire youth to take action at local and national level, using their abilities, openness and ideas.
- Strengthen international cooperation between organisations in youth work.
Activities of the project
Survey & needs analysis
A cross-country survey of youth workers identified concrete needs and existing gaps in digital tools and digital competences across the four partner countries.
Digital tools development
Each partner developed digital tools tailored to its context — a Discord-based youth platform, a hackathon application, a youth-centre app, and youth-worker / event-calendar tools.
Hackathons & local workshops
Local hackathons in Estonia, Poland and Lithuania involved young people directly in shaping the tools and proposing further digital solutions.
Multiplier events & TC
A training course on the digitalisation of youth work and multiplier events in each partner country brought together youth workers, educators and policy makers.
Duration
01-03-2021 to 31-10-2022
Grant
100 613 EUR
Project number
2020-1-EE01-KA227-YOU-093398