Digital Generation Youth

With this project we aim to contribute to the development of quality and recognition of youth work provisions in South Africa, Nigeria, Lithuania an Netherlands by a) developing youth workers’ competences to deliver non-formal education programmes on digital literacy for young people with fewer opportunities and b) developing recognition systems based on digital open badges technology in cooperation with stakeholders from private and public sectors. The aim will be achieved through the following specific objectives of the project:1. To increase partners’ shared knowledge and understanding how non-formal education programmes on digital literacy and XXI century skills development are being implemented in regions of partners organisations 2. To adapt, develop and pilot methodologies for digital literacy and social skills development of young people with fewer opportunities based on best practices and specific contexts where partner organisations are operating at; 3. To increase competences of youth workers to non-formal education programmes on digital literacy and social skills development through guided direct youth work practice happening in between the mobilities of youth workers 4. To develop and implement recognition systems based on digital open badges enabling youth workers and young people from partners organisations to collect and share evidence of their learning experiences and seek wider recognition. 5. To ensure wide reach and use of created methodologies and open badges system by making them available as Open Educational Resources and publishing project practices through range of media channels across involved partner countries and beyond. Project consists of 4 short youth worker mobility activities - 3 study visits in South Africa, Nigeria and Netherlands, 1 training course in Lithuania; 2 group job shadowing mobilities – in Nigeria and South Africa, 1 evaluation partner meeting in South Africa and capacity building activities linked to development and piloting of youth work methodologies focusing on development of digital literacy of young people with fewer opportunities. Project contains ongoing activities - monitoring, quality assurance, evaluation, and dissemination of ongoing process and results. The project lasts for 24 months from 1st August 2019 to 31st July 2021. The project consortium involves 5 partners from South Africa, Nigeria, Netherlands and Lithuania, involved in development and implementation of youth work and non-formal education programmes on digital literacy of young people. Throughout the project partners will involve range of strong local partners from public and private fields in order to ensure wider reach and sustainability of the project results. The project will involve 76 people in youth worker mobilities and at least 80 young people in direct youth work activities and will reach out to more than 13000 people through the dissemination activities.