📌PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Social media sites, online games, video-sharing websites and gadgets such as iPods, iPads, and mobile phones are now part of the culture of young people.
They have permeated young lives in such a degree, that it is hard to believe that these technologies hardly existed less than a decade ago.
30 young individuals from 14 countries (Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Romania, UK, Slovakia, Spain, and The Netherlands) will participate at the TC, and better understand digital youth work approaches.

📌THE PROJECT AIM:

“ToDAY: Developing digitAl Youth work” project aims to promote quality youth work through supporting open and innovative practices and by helping youth workers understand digital youth work and develop their capacity on digital youth work. It will support digital youth work in a local, national, regional, and European level.

📌OBJECTIVES:

• To familiarise with and better understand digital youth work approaches and to be prepared to introduce digital approaches to their youth work practice. Youth workers will be able to support young people to develop the skills, competencies, and courage to shape digital technologies actively.
• To identify innovative practices in both delivering digital youth work and upskilling youth workers' digital competences and to exchange good examples of how digital tools are used in youth work in Europe.
• To develop youth workers’ skills, competencies, and knowledge on digitalization through training that meets their needs and the needs of their communities and young people they work with.
• To create a network of youth workers from several European countries and support participating organizations to provide youth workers with tools, methods, and practices for understanding digital youth work.
• To practice and be able to use in their daily work with young people, the Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange project of the EU.
• To create space for making new contacts, creating new networks, and exploring Erasmus+ Youth opportunities to develop digital youth work in the future.

📌PARTICIPANTS' PROFILE:

We are looking for 2 Bulgarian participants:

•  who are 18-25 years old,
•  who want to deepen their understanding of the topic of digital youth work,
•  who want to stimulate active citizenship and digital youth work,
• who are ready to explore and reflect in an experiential training course and a community setting,
• who are able and prepared to work in English are motivated and willing to commit to working on the objectives of the training,
• who can act as multipliers after the end of the educational activity and transfer the obtained knowledge back to their organizations and young people.
  
  
  
  📌VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION:
  
  The participants will be hosted in Larissa (Greece). Larissa is located in the center of Greece, and it is the fifth biggest city in Greece (approximately 150.000 residents, while the regional unit of Larissa reaches a population of around 290.000 in total). It is a principal agricultural center and a national transportation hub, linked by road and rail with the port of Volos, the city of Thessaloniki and Athens. Also, Larissa is a major commercial and industrial center in Greece. Legend has it that Achilles was born there and that Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, died there.
  Accommodation (meals and hotel) is covered 100% by the program.
  You will stay at the Dionissos (ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΣ) Hotel Larissa in the center of the city of Larissa. Dionissos hotel is situated within the pedestrian precinct in the center of Larissa. During the training, you will be provided with coffee breaks (coffee, tea, juices, cookies, fruits) and meals at the hotel’s restaurant.
  
  📌 TRAVEL BUDGET AND TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT:
  
  180€
  What we need to be able to transfer your money after the mobility: All your tickets (bus tickets, train tickets, electronic flight ticket, travel agency reservations, local bus tickets, local train tickets, booking reservations, etc.) Keep all the receipts/invoices (you should ask for a receipt with your train/bus tickets and an invoice for your flight tickets) All your flight boarding passes (outward and return for all your flights).
  Please DO NOT BUY any tickets before the final, written approval from the organizers!
  
  
  📌 DEADLINE:    28.08.2019