TC - Youth voice through a European digital radio

Aims & objectives

Giving voice to young people, strengthening their sense of participation and providing dedicated spaces that can support their personal and cultural development through a peer-learning exercise on digital youth work and communication.

Specific Objectives of the training course:

Providing learning opportunities, skill development and technical expertise for participants, in order to express their own voices, opinion and any form of active participation;
Fostering active youth participation also in new forms, focusing on local level and local needs;
Promoting new Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps Programmes;
Facilitating the exchange of good practices and new ideas, in order to develop the sense of participation;
Contributing to enhance the sense of belonging to Europe and European values;
Giving a contribution to the implementation of a European Youth community;
Mapping of existing and newly born national youth radios;

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

1. Youth workers active in participation projects for young people;
2. Digital radios representatives working with and for young people at every level, from local to regional, also as a team composed by a young adult and a youth worker working for and on a specific target of young people;
3. University students with personal projects that use radio as a tool to express their needs;
4. Members of National Youth Council, regional and local youth council;
5. EUROPEERS network members;
6 Youth workers active in different realities, as youth clubs/centres;
7. Members of youth movements

Training methods used & main activities

Role Play Games; Focus Groups; World Cafè; Open Space Technology; Simulation Games; Home Groups

Outcomes of the activity

The participants created profiles on different social media:
Facebook @euthradionetwork
Instagram @euthradionetwork
TikTok @euthdigitalnetwork

Participants made a Visual Guidebook where the main insights of podcasting and digital radio network.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I've been co-training with Lara Kastelic.
I've been leading all the sessions related to Discord platform and Miro platform

I worked on this training for 8 days as a full time trainer.

Testimonial of the reference person

Working with Aldo was amazing and nice! We quickly found a flow between us, building up on each others ideas, having flexibility to adjust and trust each other. I find him very reliable and super passionate about the work he does.