📌PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
"Digital Harvest Seminar" is the 3rd mobility of a long-term training "Effective Digital Habits for Youth Work", which will help its participants to gain digital competencies that are useful in today's modern digital world. Those struggling to maintain and keep up with the digital world and/or understand its importance with today's youth work practice will be supported, as well as others who are quick to embrace digital developments and willing to explore new approaches. This difference in approach will be important in providing a rich peer-supported learning environment to the project which will be both practical and solution-focused when developing and growing digital youth work practice.
Here are the articles of the participants from the first two phases of the project. Find out what they say about it:
https://activebulgariansociety.org/stories/the-stories-of-our-participants-in-the-training-effective-digital-habits-for-youth-work-in-netherlands
https://activebulgariansociety.org/stories/the-stories-of-our-participants-in-the-training-course-grow-digital-in-the-netherlands
"Digital Harvest Seminar" will enable participants to consolidate their learning outcomes and prepare them to multiply their learning experience, results, and achievements to their future practices and other youth work contexts. The practice phases between mobility activities will transfer learning outcomes to the practice of youth work. During the time between activities, participants will implement competence development plans and will collaborate through digital alliances.
📌ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGIES USED IN THE PROJECT:
To achieve sustainable impact on participants development 2 competence frameworks are combined and expected to lead towards the development of personal and professional competencies of youth workers and capacities of their organizations to implement digital youth work. These two areas combined will look to improve the quality of youth work practice, keeping it relevant and offer a platform for realizing a strategic platform for digital youth work.
For ‘What - learning outcomes’ we chose a competency framework developed by the European expert group on digitalization of youth work. This group identified 7 areas of competences where youth workers need to develop:
1. Digitalization of society;
2. Planning, designing and evaluating digital youth work;
3. Information and data literacy;
4. Communication;
5. Digital creativity;
6. Safety;
7. Reflection and evaluation.
For ‘How - learning outcomes’ the framework of Covey’s 7 Habits for Effective People was adapted. Areas of competences covered by Covey’s 7 habits:
1. Being proactive;
2. Having the end in mind;
3. Putting first things first;
4. Think win-win;
5. Seek first to understand and then to be understood;
6. Synergize;
7. Sharpen the saw (renewal).
📌PARTICIPANTS' PROFILE:
➢ Younge people;
➢ Participate to the best of your ability;
➢ Have a good working level of English as this will be the working language for all events;
➢ Ready and willing to explore and share intercultural differences, knowledge, skills, and experiences and try new approaches;
➢ Willing to reflect on the experiences you have and willing to identify learning and competencies developed as part of your participation.
* Participants who took part in the 1st and 2nd phase of the project will have a priority in the selection process.
📌ACCOMMODATION:
The training will take place in Group Accommodation Daugirdiskes in Daugirdiskes, Lithuania. Arrival for participants will be on Sunday the 1st July, departure participants on Sunday 7th July 2019.
📌 TRAVEL BUDGET AND TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT
It is important to start your journey from Bulgaria and come back to Bulgaria after the project.
Bulgaria – 275 EUR/ per person
If travel costs exceed the amount budgeted in the project, the organizers will only be able to reimburse participants maximum travel costs indicated in the travel budget. Under regulations imposed by Erasmus+ Programme, you are required to travel by the cheapest means of transport. Taxi expenses are not covered. Please, keep all your travel reimbursement documents (it has to include date, journey, cost, and name).
Without it, we will not be able to reimburse you.
📌 DEADLINE
After finding the right candidates, we can select the team before. We will only contact selected participants.
