Snapping up Europe

This will be 5 day exchange for 13 young people aged 13-16 years of age with 2 youth leaders aged 18 years of age. 2 staff will also be required. both parts of exchange may happen in summer 2017 or one part in summer 2017 and one in summer 2018.
This project will reintroduce the camera to young people. In a modern society young people are used to taking photos daily with their phones, we will be encouraging them to use this knowledge and skill to convey their story of being a European citizen while capturing essence of each other's countries in rural and urban settings. We will set up and establish a story board on social media such as Snapchat and Facebook for the duration of the exchange. The exchange will be staged in a rural setting to capture aspects of nature in Ireland.
They will also develop competences on how to apply strategies and methods of creating visual content (video and photo) for their project and develop strategies of including photo/video content in their communication projects campaigns; Develop digital competences and skills (technical learning of video/photo equipment, learning programs of video/photo editing, discovering social media channels and web platforms);
Using methodologies of video-making, photography through non-formal education methods.