DICIPASS4YOUTH: European Digital Citizenship Pass for Youth Empowerment and Participation Erasmus Project

Project Title

DICIPASS4YOUTH: European Digital Citizenship Pass for Youth Empowerment and Participation

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: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Context
Our world is changing, and we need to adapt to new realities of knowledge, society, and education. Technology has fundamentally changed our idea of community and the ways in which we interact with each other, so that building individual networks for learning and support is more important than ever before. The Internet has broken down many barriers of space and time, allowing us to rethink the way that we learn, work and connect; we now operate within more fluid and complex networks of people from around the globe. The Internet also provides cheaper, freer access to an enormous amount of information and educational content. Learning can be done anywhere, at any time, and by anyone.
With the context of the above, this project aims:
– to support youth workers to develop a positive attitude towards digital citizenship
– to promote the development of responsible, ethical, global citizens for the digitalised and connected the world we live in
– to establish the DICIPASS 4YOUTH programme and Code of Conduct among youth organisations, youth workers and young people as a binding agreement
– to pilot test the idea of the DICIPASS CHALLENGE PROGRAMME where young people follow various challenges in order to be AWARDED the DICIPASS4YOUTH BADGE showing excellence in digital citizenship values, knowledge, skills and understanding.
– To offer opportunities for the acquisition of digital citizenship competencies among youth works thus strengthening their profiles and upgrading the quality of youth work.

Two are the main target groups:
– the direct target group is YOUTH WORKERS whose profiles will be upgraded and strengthened through the professional development programme to be developed to acquire the essential skills to support, protect and educate young people. They are key agents who can influence young people and ensure they have necessary digital skills and understanding of online safety.
– the indirect target group is YOUNG PEOPLE (14-18 years old) with a specific focus on young people with fewer opportunities (including NEETs, marginalized, with a migrant background, including newly arrived immigrants and young refugees, early school leavers etc.).
Based on the effects of digitalisation around the world it is essential for the project to be implemented transnationally.

The project pioneers to design a COMPLETE TOOL KIT and an EDUCATIONAL PACK for developing, implementing and monitoring various INCLUSIVE strategies for promoting digital citizenship competencies. It also pioneers in developing an ASSESSMENT TOOL for the formative and on-going type of reflective and digital assessment of their habits, behaviour, attitudes and values.

The consortium of strong and experienced partners from Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Cyprus and Belgium is committed to delivering the six Intellectual Outputs with high quality in an efficient and effective implementation and management plan. The consortium envisions to disseminate the project’s products and results to various levels starting from the local, to the regional to the national and also to the European Level. The use of the opportunities provided by the Erasmus+ programme for learning, teaching and training will offer the opportunity to a great number of participants to attend the blended learning programmes organised in four countries, as well as the Short Term Joint Staff Training and the Blended Mobility of Young People.

The main results and impacts that are envisaged are:
– Increased capacity of youth workers to use innovative resources in promoting digital citizenship competence and values among young people with fewer opportunities.
– Increased awareness and enriched competences of young people to deal with sensitive ethical issues in their everyday life and make wise decisions regarding their personal data, rights, respect etc.
– Increased capacity of young people with fewer opportunities to express their views and participate and have access to the digital world with dignity and respect.

Project Website

http://dicipass.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 229658 Eur

Project Coordinator

CULTURE GOES EUROPE (CGE)- SOZIOKULTURELLE INITIATIVE ERFURT EV & Country: DE

Project Partners

• VSI PASAULIO PILIECIU AKADEMIJA
• CCS DIGITAL EDUCATION LIMITED
• Associacio Programes Educatius Open Europe
• UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS RESEARCH CENTER
• A & A Emphasys Interactive Solutions Ltd