TRANSFORMERS: Age of Youth Work

This project aims to raise quality and enhance youth work engagement in peace and reconciliation processes through digital tools and online media. Through our project, we will build capacities of youth workers and youth leaders through transfer of skills, experience, knowledge, attitudes and empowerment based on non-formal education activities, practice community activities and development of new methods and tools for efficient, innovative, relevant and modern approach to youth work. The project involves 10 partner organizations from Western Balkans partner and program countries and EU member states. Activities foreseen throughout the project include kick off meeting of partners, 3 mobilities of youth workers (training courses), joint campaign, hackathon event for development of new digital tools, creation of animated e-book on digital storytelling, as well as online platform for learning and co-working which will follow and facilitate all activities. Specific outputs of the project include 3 developed digital tools for young people and youth workers with the purpose to innovate their work on peacebuilding and reconciliation, one animated e-book on digital storytelling, different digital content (videos, visuals, texts, podcasts, etc) created during the campaign, as well as new methods and approaches developed during 3 training courses. Expected results of the project include built capacities of youth workers and youth leaders in using and shaping digital tools to promote intercultural understanding and acceptance of diversity; strengthened abilities of youth workers to create and develop digital media content for engaging young people in conflict transformation and reconciliation process; developed media literacy capacities of youth organizations and provide space for exploration of ICT potentials in youth work; raised awareness of young people about the importance of peacebuilding and conflict transformation and role of youth work and young people in it.