Digitalising Youth Awareness of the European Built Heritage

<< Objectives >>Digitalising Youth Awareness of the European Built Heritage 'ArchApp' acknowledges the necessity of advanced digital skills in a Digital Era: it adopts the policy recommendations outlined in Developing Digital Youth Work (Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission, 2018) and proposes to upgrade the digital proficiency level of youth worker participants so as to include the development of digital tools for a social purpose.<< Implementation >>Target Group will participate in:WP2: (4-day) pilot testing activities, enriched with visiteering and other experiential activities to further sensitize participants to the buildings involved, 6 YWs from each city so 30 in total, feedback to amend / finalize the modulesWP3: 1 Virtual 3-day training activity with the participation of 3YWs per partner country, 15 in totalWP4: Testing (1 per country with at least 2 experts & 2 Youth workers) to feed into the final version of the application<< Results >>Investing in digital technology, the project offers training opportunities that will help youth workers to update and enrich their digital know-how, to support young people aged 18-30 in the co-creation of a mobile application, through which they will efficiently promote and protect local built heritage. ArcH App will also create modular training, and digital guided tours using an interdisciplinary approach. A set of field and pilot testing activities will be done in all partner cities.