Training Course: Call for Digital Transformers

18/12/202218/12/2022 mladibl Digital Transformers, training course

31 January – 23 April 2023 | Armenia, Online, Armenia

How to lead the transformation of youth work from offline to online while keeping the best of both worlds in mind? Would you like to be one of the digital transformers? We are inviting you on a 4-month journey on digital transformation in youth work.

This journey includes blended capacity building on how to digitally transform youth work in the form of 2 (4 half-days) online trainings and 1 study visit in Armenia. The trainings will focus on digital well-being, ethics and digital rights as well as on emerging technologies, with inclusion and participation as overarching topics. This is the 2nd call for this training course (the whole programme started in October 2022). This means that new participants will have some extra onboarding activities and materials we will invite you to go through.

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.

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
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 (end-January until end-April 2023)
able to communicate in English
able to have access to the internet, computer, video camera, microphone for the online sessions. Our meeting will take place mainly in Mibo. Before applying, please test if your internet connection and device works in this system (it will only take a minute): Test Mibo

We expect participants to take part in all modules of the training course and follow the online panels. Participants can watch panel discussions live or if needed after the panel takes place.

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

Time frame:

Training courses:

31 January; 11:00 -12:00 CET; Online meeting with new participants
1 January – 2 February; 9:30-13:00 CET; Online Training: Digital Well-Being
09 -10 March; 9:30-13:00 CET; Online training: Ethics and Digital Rights
19 – 22 April; Full Days; Study Visit on Emerging Technologies; Armenia

Panels:

31 January 13:00-14:30 Online panel: Digital Well-Being
7 March 13:00-14:30 CET Online panel: Ethics and Digital Rights
28 March 13-14:30 CET Online Panel: Emerging Technologies in Youth Work

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

Please find more here

More information at: SALTO