Digital social innovation for young people Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital social innovation for young people

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The YDSI project aims at empowering young people (especially students in social sciences and volunteers) in digital social innovation thinking and practices at a European level professionalizing them in a lifelong learning European perspective.
The general objective of the YDSI project is the definition of a basic educational framework for youth online social innovation education at a European level integrating the expertise of partners engaged in different topical social educational practices such as peer learning, participatory learning, social learning, and collaborative learning.

The specific objectives are:
• to exchange best practices between organizations active in social innovation focusing on methodologies, conditions and best-practices of social innovation thinking
• to increase competencies of young people on digital social innovation providing them with advice and guidance on how to design and developing social innovation ideas and proposals exploiting EU funding and opportunities available on the Web
• to create a comprehensive list of good practices on the topics of digital social innovation and social entrepreneurship
• to create a network of organizations active in digital social innovation and promoting their collaboration with social enterprises
Addressed needs
The YDSI project addresses the following needs:
• professionalization of young people in a topical sector such as digital social innovation thinking and social entrepreneurship
• their empowerment in the use of online educational processes

Addressed target group
The project’s target group are students, and young people engaged in social volunteer activities or employed in social services institutions/organizations.

Transnational motivation
The YDSI Strategic Partnership is motivated by the following main factors:
– social education, social services, and social innovation go beyond national borders
– social digital innovation and professional use of the new technologies are European goals that need a transnational approach
– our project wants to contribute to achieving a European objective: improving the active involvement of young people in the development of high-quality non-formal and informal educational programs at a European level
– participation to this European project will provide partners with the opportunity for sharing investigations conducted separately as well as for confronting ideas, practices, and methods of digital social innovation; thanks to this project, they will create a network and increase their capacity to operate at a transnational level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 84180 Eur

Project Coordinator

WYZSZA SZKOLA PEDAGOGICZNA IM. JANUSZA KORCZAKA W WARSZAWIE & Country: PL

Project Partners

• REZEKNES TEHNOLOGIJU AKADEMIJA
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPAL CLERKS IN BULGARIA
• MANCOMUNIDAD DE LA RIBERA ALTA
• Ecoistituto del Friuli Venezia Giulia