D(at)YW – Upgrading Digital Youth Work is an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership for innovation and exchange of good practises. The 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.
About
Methodological approach
Utilizing the non-working time
(i.e. after school/college, summertime, afternoon) available in a constructive way to set up a deep tech club.
Introducing Open Badges
as a method to validate and award the digital skills acquired by both young people and youth workers.
Creating synergies
between youth organisations, schools and the business world in order to bridge the skills-gap between education and the labour market.
Creating transnational cooperation
between partners for the organisation of competitions, events, C1 mobility, digital movement as part of the EU strategy.
Stages
During the first stage the consortium is conducting various surveys to identify the existing digital skills gap between young people’s abilities and the existing requirements of the job market.
Learn MoreThe second stage is about designing and developing all essential teaching and learning material to support the promote of deep-tech digital skills through synergies and hubs.
Learn MoreAt the third stage a short-term training for youth workers will be organised to test all developed materials.
Learn MoreAfter testing, the feedback will be incorporated into the designed product and presented again to the wider audience.
Learn MoreDuring the final phase of the project’s dissemination plan, which includes the completion of the planned activities and the implementation of the D(at)YW for digital literacy, each partner will organise a national conference in their country.
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300
Surveyed youngsters
150
businesses interviewed
6
modules to be developed
6
deep tech clubs to start
Results
All
IO1
IO2
IO3
IO4
D(at)YW: e-Learning Platform
Intelectual Outputs
D(at)YW: Open Badge on Social Media Marketing
Intelectual Outputs
D(at)YW: Open Badge on DevOps, Go-Lang & Raspberry Pi Exploration
Intelectual Outputs
D(at)YW: Open Badge on Graphic & Media Design
Intelectual Outputs
D(at)YW: Open Badge on C++ Programming Language
Intelectual Outputs
D(at)YW: Open Badge on Web Design
Intelectual Outputs
D(at)YW: Open Badge on 3D Design & 3D Printing
Intelectual Outputs
D(at)YW Campaign: Digital Literacy
Intelectual Outputs
D(at)YW Campaign: Digital Health
Intelectual Outputs
D(at)YW Campaign: Digital Privacy
Intelectual Outputs
D(at)YW Campaign: What are your Digital Concerns?
Intelectual Outputs
D(at)YW Campaign: Digital Natives
Intelectual Outputs
D(at)YW Campaign: Erasmus Days 2020
Intelectual Outputs
IO1: Snapshot from the Summary of the Comparative Report – All
Intelectual Outputs
IO1: Snapshot from the Summary of the Comparative Report – Employers
Intelectual Outputs
IO1: Snapshot from the Summary of the Comparative Report – Schools
Intelectual Outputs
Timeline
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Kick-Off Meeting
May 9th-10th, 2019 in Erfurt, Germany.
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Transnational Meeting #2
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Transnational Meeting #3
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Short-term Joint Staff Training
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Multiplier Events
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Transnational Meeting #4
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Final Conference
Acknowledgement of youth work’s key role in acquisition of digital skills of youngsters
If you believe in the value of open non-formal education as a tool for the youngsters’ participation and their empowerment, it’ is time to take some action.
Blog
D(at)YW: e-Learning Platform Testing
The e-Learning Platform, featuring e-Academy, e-Community and e-Resource Data Bank, was developed as part of the Intellectual Output 3 (IO3-A1), and is meant to revolutionise blended-learning for young people and youth workers. Each of the partners took responsibility to integrate a specific part of the platform in their session, whether that be: e-Academy, e-Assessment, e-Community,…
D(at)YW Piloting: C++ Programming Language Course
Between the 3rd of November – 27th of November 2020, Emphasys Centre conducted the Pilot testing for the Digital@YouthWork project for the C++ module (which was the module developed). The sessions were organised face-to-face at the premises of Emphasys Centre in Nicosia, Cyprus. Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, the group of interested participants was split into two…
D(at)YW Piloting: Social Media Marketing
Open Europe piloted the module “Social Media Marketing” which is targeted at beginners in the topic: young people or youth workers who have average skills and knowledge in social media but who are interested in learning more about the marketing potential social media have. The two people who developed the course were in charge of…
Consortium
