DiGi-tool: Distance Guidance & Innovation Erasmus Project

Project Title

DiGi-tool: Distance Guidance & Innovation

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Open and distance learning; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The COVID-19 epidemic has pushed most of the world, including young people and youth educators into a situation of long-term isolation, revealing an unpleasant reality: actors in non-formal education for young people are not not ready to ensure a rapid and effective transition from traditional practices to distance education, assistance and mentoring for young people. This requires adapting their services (assistance, supervision, tutoring) to online procedures and tools. There is an urgent need to further promote the use of digital means in the context of non-formal online education; operating on 2 levels:
• Strengthen the skills of youth educators, in particular their digital skills, then modernize pedagogical methods applied at a distance, as well as their ability to adapt their pedagogical approach according to unpredictable and variable situations, while preserving their active role in various geographical contexts and seasonal workers and in crisis situations that require immediate and effective intervention.
• Modernize non-formal educational tools aimed at young people and youth educators, the main drivers of socio-educational projects. Most of the existing tools require updating in terms of form, content and design, as well as interactivity and continuous innovation, to meet the real needs of target groups.
In order to act at the levels described above, and to meet the objective of the Horizon Europe 2030 strategy towards the emergence of a digital, intelligent and inclusive education, we wish to set up this project of exchange of good practice. It is the continuation of several European projects led by the members of the consortium, during which youth educators were trained in non-formal distance education and created online and offline educational tools that had an impact on a large number of beneficiaries (young people / youth workers).
This new project aims to modernize and update some of these educational tools, so that they can meet the current needs of the target group. It also aims to develop the skills of youth educators in terms of monitoring methods and non-formal distance education. Thanks to this project, we want to achieve the following objectives:
• Identify the needs of young people and youth educators in terms of services and skills, so that they can obtain or offer adequate support / mentoring, training at a distance.
• Share and pool our knowledge, experiences and reflections with our partners and train on methods of education, supervision and mentoring of young people at a distance, with a view to broadening our pedagogical approaches, improving, modernize and certify new innovative working methods and educational tools.
• Promote experimentation and the circulation of good practices between partner countries and elsewhere.
• Improve and digitally update our teaching tools and test them with a representative group of the target group before disseminating them on a large scale.
• Create “e-tutorial video”) which will facilitate the self-development of the skills of youth educators in terms of distance mentoring.
• Make widely visible and promote the results of the project.

To achieve these goals, we want to implement the following activities:
• A kick-off meeting in Greece to clearly identify the roles, modalities and methods of project implementation.
• Preparation and launch of a research survey to identify the needs of young people and youth workers in terms of distance learning, monitoring and support for skills development.
• 4 seminars involving 4 participating youth educators per country and the project managers. These meetings will be joint working time on the main outputs of the project. They will also facilitate the exchange and monitoring of the stages of the project as well as the roles and tasks of each partner. Between each seminar, participants will train, experiment with tools and collect feedback from beneficiaries to improve them.
• Modernize 4 tools for learning and / or mentoring young people (a tool previously created by per partner).
• Creation of an online video tutorial on remote monitoring methods to support youth educators in terms of e-tutoring for young people
• Online evaluation meeting via Zoom between the partners to take stock of the project and prepare a common plan for dissemination and sustainability of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 125400 Eur

Project Coordinator

D’ANTILLES ET D’AILLEURS & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ASOCIATIA DE TINERI DIN ARDEAL
• MONOPATIA ALLILEGIIS
• Associazione Costiera Amalfitana Riserva Biosfera