Euro Youth MediaLab: autonomy and cooperation of young reporters’ groups for an active citizenship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Euro Youth MediaLab: autonomy and cooperation of young reporters’ groups for an active citizenship

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

This project is a continuation of the former EuroYouth MediaLab strategic partnership http://eym.foyer-rural-cepage.com/ and aims at empowering existing MediaLab groups and creating new ones as well as fostering cooperation between these groups.

To summarize, young people expressed the need to:
– develop the MediaLab in Europe by opening the business to new groups.
– Training in effective tools and methods to collaborate, in the long term, transnational and digital.
– To improve the youth work.

To meet these needs, this project has 4 main objectives.
1 / create new local groups by the inclusion of new organizations that are in contact with young people interested in creating information.
Each partner is committed to supporting a group of at least 7 young people between 13 and 30 years old and to set up at least 1 session of 4 hours per month with these young people, including 1 virtual session of intergroup cooperation every 3 months, to create reports with a European dimension.
2 / promote exchange and cooperative work by integrating digital tools into the activities of MediaLab groups to enable young people to cooperate effectively via the Internet.
3 / train 2 participants from each MediaLab to, among others, design and share methods to prevent discrimination, methods for the use of digital in the framework of international cooperation. For that, we propose 2 training aiming to train to the animation using nonformal methods of education. These two training will also make the groups more autonomous to:
– animate the local group of which they are part,
– use digital tools to carry out cooperation actions
4 / to enable young people to increase their skills in reporting, participation, and inclusion. For that we propose 2 activities of learning and exchange of practices, allowing the young people to increase their skills in reporting, participation, and inclusion.

The target audiences for this project are:
1 / young people:
2 / current youth leaders and becoming partner organizations.
3 / territorial actors where the organizations are located:
4 / individuals / the general public

This project is transnational because of this:
– will allow exchanging on different practices and methods of youth education
– Allow the digital cooperation of several groups of young reporters from different countries for the creation of reports including the point of view of citizens of different countries.
– Among young people, there is a need to interact with young people from other countries.

The main short and long-term results expected are:
– The constant development of the critical spirit of the participants.
– Constant improvement of international cooperation capacities of host structures and participants.
– The improvement of digital skills.
– 5 MediaLab groups, including 2 new ones, ie about 50 young reporters
– The creation of reports with a European dimension gathering information and points of view on themes that affect the countries of at least 3 partner organizations.
– the acquisition by participants of transversal skills.
– more autonomous MediaLab groups that have developed their ability to sustain themselves and positively influence their environment, without the need for constant support from support structures;
– a more positive attitude towards the European project;
– a sharing of the values ​​of the European Union;
– young people who are better able to participate in civic life and local, national and European citizens;
– novice or experienced facilitators trained in the use of non-formal education methods

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 114237 Eur

Project Coordinator

Foyer Rural CEPAGE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Fundacja Inkubator Innowacji
• Asociación para el Desarrollo del Guadajoz y Campiña Este de Córdoba
• New Horizon Association
• IndieGesta – Associazione culturale