Social Communication Forum 2.0 Erasmus Project

Project Title

Social Communication Forum 2.0

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

Social Communication Forum 2.0 will involve 4 organisations from 4 different countries: Maghweb (Italy), Cinergies (Greece), Youth of Europe (Poland) and Inceptus-Innoved Leituva (Lithuania). Social Communication Forum 2.0 is a follow-up of the mobility of youth workers “Social Communication Forum”, held in Palermo in January 2018, in this context the Maghweb team and the partner participants have agreed on the need to spread the knowledge of no-profit social communication. The problem the project is going to tackle is that often the concept of social communication is mystified because there is no a clear definition of precise criteria and rules for an ethical and sustainable communication. Indeed nor at national level, nor at European level there is any agreement on what social communication is; consequently communicators often lack of specific professional skills and their professional profile is not appropriately recognised. The exchange of good practices, competences and experiences in the context of SCF 2.0 aims at precisely drawing up this concept and providing guidelines not only for communicators, but also to the target of such communication, giving them the tools to develop critical thinking and to distinguish between profit
and no-profit communication. The project’s objectives are therefore:
– Better, professionalize and spread social communication in the context of international project management, improving employability of communication experts
– Exchange good practices on social communication in order to create a common European framework for social communication
– Provide the users of media the tools to understand the rules and contexts of social communication in order to tackle media illiteracy and to develop users’ abilities to individuate fake news
– Enhance transnational network within youth workers active in the field of communication in order to produce ethical and quality content
– To contribute to reducing the deficit of social communication in EU area of exemplary social work.
The direct beneficiaries of the trainings will be 36 youth workers with previous experience in communication who will share the acquired competences with their peers, family, university and/or work. The indirect beneficiaries of the project are several: the future users of the self-training contents, local and national stakeholders and population, young people belonging to the educational environment of members of partner organisations and the users of the SALTO platform and the Erasmus+ project results platform, where self-training materials are going to be shared. The approaches, methods, tools and sectors involved will be developed in an integrated manner in order to ensure the permeability of all sectors involved in the project. The Strategy developed based on non-formal approach aims to promote the importance of cooperation between countries, active citizenship, proactive approaches and European values. During the project several activities are going to be implemented, the most important will be the training mobilities and the offline events, namely there will be 2 trainings addressing different aspects of social communication: the state of the art of social communication, video-making, social communication applied to international project-managing and peculiarities of each channel of communication. Whereas the offline events will include focus groups, conferences to promote freedom of press and events to disseminate the project results.

Project Website

http://www.maghweb.org/progetto-social-communication-forum-2-0/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 60801 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASSOCIAZIONE DI PROMOZIONE SOCIALE MAGHWEB & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Cinergies
• VSI INCEPTUS
• Youth of Europe