Network for European Citizenship
and Identity
Social Media, A Road to Development
Description of project
A training course designed for youth workers from Turkey, Estonia, Malta, Spain. Greece, Romania, and Italy, who work in NGO’s and are interested in developing effective communication means and competencies to support their self and professional development. Social Media Tools along with Non formal learning and intercultural interaction will be our allies for achieving and empowering with them transnational mobility, active participation in society/communities, active citizenship and positive collaboration.
Objectives of the project:
- To develop a strategic action plan for use the social media
- To understand the opportunities and risks of online social networking
- To develop creative and attractive ways to apply social media for active participation
- To explore ways to create lively, engaging images of youth organizations in order to come closer to young people
- Intercultural discovery, of realities, issues and priorities of the participants;
- Sharing of experiences, of practices and tools in the field of gender balance in youth projects/activities;
- To open ways to work on solutions through networking and creating future cooperation projects between the participants in the frame of future international projects;
Targeted at:
(a) Youth workers who haven't got much previous experience on international trainings
(b) Youth workers who are not so skilful in the use of media technology and
(c) Youth workers who face social, geographical or economic barriers or/and seek desperately opportunities for development, will have priority against others.
(d) Also youth workers who work basically with youngsters that make excessive use of media technology in a non-very right way, meaning they don't use it for their own development.
During the TC in Turkey, the themes will be approached in workshops and smaller work groups. We will try to make sure that the participants will be able to express their opinions and themselves through activities that are varied and interactive and will rely upon the abilities and strengths of the participants.
At the first day we met the participants of the training course “SMARTD” and we started to get into the topic of the project with an import and through games and some presentations! We also mention our exceptions from this program and the reason we participate in this!!
The rest of the days we get into the topic of the project through workshops and presentations and this also help us to meet each other better! We learn and gained a lot from these project, especially about reports and essays, cyber bulling, how to make and use website (wix), personal branding! For us the best parts was the time that we create our new project and sell our self, cause we saw our thoughts and ideas through a team work and from “impossible” be “possible”!!
As general evaluation, I believe that the training was high quality and delivered successfully by all the trainers involved. The theoretical notions and the practical exercises were delivered in a progressive way, from simple to more complex, and the overall feeling was that of the developing of a personal growth day after day. Sharing ideas, points of view and experiences with such a great number of people from many different nationalities was one of the strengths of the training. Moreover, the trainers were skilled and very professional, able to transfer their baggage of knowledge and experience to the participants.
We will never forget this project and the whole experience we gained from this! We now have friends in other countries and many memories to remember from them!!
We are really thankful for this opportunity we had and we can’t wait to meet again our friends and to participate to more projects like this one!!
Inga P. (participant)