Active Bulgarian Society together with their partners from France, Spain, Greece, Netherlands and Italy all together developed an Erasmus+ KA2 capacity building project on the topic of «Digital storytelling ».  The project is approved by the French National Agency and financed by the European Commission. The project will last for two years and will have several activities in different countries.  

"Digital storytelling" is a relatively new term which describes the new practice of everyday people who use digital tools to tell their 'story'. Digital stories often present in compelling and emotionally engaging formats, and can be interactive.

The term "digital storytelling" can also cover a range of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games); It is sometimes used to refer to film-making in general, and as of late, it has been used to describe advertising and promotion efforts by commercial and non-profit enterprises.

The AIM of  Digital storytelling is a digital media production that allows everyday people to share aspects of their story. The media used may include the digital equivalent of film techniques (full-motion video with sound), stills, audio only, or any of the other forms of non-physical media (material that exists only as electronic files as opposed to actual paintings or photographs on paper, sounds stored on tape or disc, movies stored on film) which individuals can use to tell a story or present an idea.

AIM

 This project comes as continuation and follow-up of a previous project in which Y-E-N and other partners discovered, tested and validated innovative and creative digital tools such as digital storytelling and talent approach: "Angle It Right: New Perspectives on young people with fewer opportunities" (2016). The aim of this strategic partnership is therefore to experiment, share and confront practices on innovative, digital and creative methods and tools to foster youth empowerment and social inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities / in vulnerable situations.

OBJECTIVES

• To explore the benefits, challenges, and ethical considerations of digital tools

• To promote the added value of digital tools in youth work; - To develop digital competences of youth workers by training them on the use of digital storytelling

• To create a safe space for young people with fewer opportunities to reflect on their own life story.

• To inform young people with fewer opportunities about their rights, empower them to stand for these rights and get motivation for change; - To build capacity of the participating organizations and provide networking and peer-learning opportunities between them.

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TIMELINE OF THE PROJECT (2018)

KICK-OFF MEETING

February 2018 - 2 days;

Strasbourg (France) - Hosted by Y-E-N;

Target group: Project Manager / Director 1 participant / partner + 1 accompanying person from

Y-E-N (reporting & communication);

The  aim  of  this  meeting  will  be  to  physically  getting  to know each other,  launch  the  project and  put  in place  the planning of the mobilities.

TRAINING COURSE #1

April 2018 - 10 days;

Ostia-Rome (Italy) - Hosted by Affabulazione;

Target group: Youth workers 2-3 participants / partner + 2 accompanying persons from

Y-E-N (expert, logistics, reporting & communication);

This training course will build the capacity of youth workers  on digital storytelling by discovering  the use of digital tools and storytelling to be used in their work with young people.

PRACTICE PHASE

April - June 2018;

During  this practice phase, youth workers have  to start to implement  what  they  learned  in  the  training  course  with young people of their organisation.

TRAINING COURSE #2

June 2018 - 10 days;

Strasbourg (France) - Hosted by Y-E-N;

Target group: Young people 2 participants / partner + 3 accompanying persons from

Y-E-N (expert, logistics, reporting & communication);

This  training  course  will  allow  young  people  to  work  on classical and digital storytelling directly with an expert. They will write their own script and shoot a digital life-story based

on their personal experience.

PRACTICE PHASE

June - October 2018;

During this practice phase, young people will  return in their organisation with  competences  in  digital  storytelling  to  be used to produce videos with youth workers.

MID-TERM MEETING

October 2018 - 2 days;

Thessaloniki (Greece) - Hosted by U.S.B.;

Target group: Project Manager / Director 1  participant  /  partner  +  1  accompanying  person  from

U.S.B. (reporting & communication)

The aim of this meeting will be to have a mid-term check of the project and evaluate the trainings (mobilities).

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TIMELINE OF THE PROJECT (2019)

PEER LEARNING STUDY VISITS - 1st semester 2019

STUDY VISIT #1 - ABS and U.S.B.

February 2019 - 4 days;

Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria) - Hosted by Active Bulgarian Society.

STUDY VISIT #2

 Y-E-N and The Exchangeables

April 2019 - 4 days;

Dordrecht (NL) - Hosted by The Exchangeables.

STUDY VISIT #3 

Affabulazione and Youropia

June 2019 - 4 days;

Oviedo (Spain) - Hosted by Youropia;

Target group: Project Manager / Director & Youth workers 2  participants /  guest +  3 participants  /  peers +  1  accompanying person from the host (ABS, The Exchangeables or Youropia).

The aim of  these peer  learning  study  visits is to  allow participating organisations  to  share  about  their  best  practice  in  the  field  of storytelling, digital  tools and other  innovative and creative approach while  working  with  young  people  with  fewer  opportunities  (talent/positive  approach,  art  therapy  etc.).  The  programme  will  be  based on peer-learning education and experimentation.

PRACTICE & FOLLOW-UP PHASE

June - October 2019;

During  this practice phase, youth workers have to implement  the  tools  and  methods  they  learned from  their  peers during  the  study  visits with  the young  people  of  their  organisation  (sessions, workshops etc.) This phase  is also  set for  follow-up  of  the project within  each  partner  organisation  for  all  the

benficiaries  (youth  workers,  young  people, organisation): impact questionnaire and study.

EVALUATION MEETING

October 2019 - 3 days;

Strasbourg (France) - Hosted by Y-E-N;

Target group: Project Manager / Director 1  participant  /  partner  +  1  accompanying  person from       Y-E-N (reporting & communication). The  aim  of  this meeting  will  be  to  evaluate  the project together  with  the  different  participants  of the  activities,  write  a  pedagogical  guide,  set  a follow-up  strategy of the project and start to write the final report.

PROJECT PARTNERS

Active Bulgarian Society (Bulgaria)

Affabulazione (Italy)

The Exchangeables (NL)

United Societies of Balkans (Greece)

Youropia (Spain)

Youth Express Network (France)