Digital Transformers

This journey includes blended capacity building about digitally transforming youth work in the form of 1 residential training course in Lithuania, 1 study visit in Armenia and 4 online trainings. Online training session will take 2 days with half-day online meetings and individual learning quests in the afternoon. The same participants should take part in the whole programme.

Aims of the training are: 

• To increase awareness about different aspects of digital transformation in the youth field and considering inclusion, participation and diversity 
• To increase competences of youth workers and provide them with new approaches to digital transformation in youth work
• To utilise knowledge and experiences on digital transformation from diverse sectors and explore the potential of cross-sectoral cooperation to enrich youth work. 

Are you ready to come onboard?

Am I the right person? 

We are looking for participants who are: 

• youth workers, working directly with young people, especially dealing with inclusion & participation topics
• willing to approach digital transformation in their work
• interested in the training topics and have a strong motivation to apply digital transformation topics in their youth work activities
• able to take part in the entire long-term process 
• able to communicate in English
• able to have access to the internet, computer, video camera, microphone for the online sessions

This activity is open to participants from both programme and partner countries and able to travel to Lithuania and Armenia (VISAs, passport, etc).

If a participant misses more than 2 activities, they will be removed from the training course.

Time frame: 

September 2022

27.09 13:00 CET - Online panel on inclusive and participatory digital transformation

October 2022

11.-13.10 - Training: Digital transformers in youth work - Lithuania

November 2022

08.11 13:00 CET - Online panel on digital well-being

10.-11.11 - Online training on digital well-being

29.11 13:00 CET Online panel on digital sustainability

December 2022

01.-02.12 Online training on digital sustainability

January 2023

31.01 13:00 CET Online panel on access and infrastructure

February 2023

01.-02.02 Online training on access and infrastructure

March 2023

07.03 13:00 CET Online panel on ethics and digital rights

09.-10.03 Online training on ethics and digital rights

28.03 13:00 CET Online panel on emerging technologies and their use in youth work

April 2023

 19.-22.04 - Study visit on emerging technologies and their use in youth work - Armenia

What can we promise by the end of the training course? Participants will be able:

• to design inclusive and participatory digital youth work activities, knowledge of tools to use and processes
• to ensure digital ethics, safety and privacy of young people 
• to utilise digital transformation opportunities in youth work (emerging technologies, maker cultures, gaming, changing trends in the world of work, etc.)
• to use opportunities of EU youth programmes to finance digital youth work activities
• to approach challenges and barriers like the digital divide, exclusion, ensuring sustainability, etc. 
• To use resources and knowledge from other sectors as well as expand cooperation opportunities in their communities
• To increase international cooperation network

Background of the training:

SALTO Participation & Information Resource Centre (SALTO PI), SALTO Inclusion & Diversity Resource Centre (SALTO I&D) and 10 National Agencies, with SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus (SALTO EECA) onboard joined to address the topic of inclusive and participatory digital transformation to encourage the transformation of online and offline spaces. In the European youth field, digital transformation is understood as a multi-stakeholder and inclusive process encompassing the co-design, implementation and utilisation of people-centred digital technologies with and by young people, youth workers and other relevant stakeholders. Digital transformation changes the way most areas of the youth field operate. It describes the evolving integration of digital technologies into social, economic, and cultural processes and structures.

The framework of the digital transformation in EU Youth field was mapped in the study, coordinated by SALTO PI and are: 

• Multistakeholderism and participation 
• Skills and education 
• Access and infrastructure 
• Strategy
• Innovation
• Sustainability 
• Ethics
• Digital well-being

During the training, we would like to address the topic from a variety of perspectives and narratives, such as emerging technologies, digital rights, digital sustainability, digital youth participation, digital policy making, digital education, cross-sectoral approaches. 

The important thing to be mindful about before applying is the commitment to the whole process, so that 7 months from October on, will really be dedicated to transforming the online and offline digital spaces and tackle the different perspectives in order to integrate it in your work.