European Hackathon: shaping youth ideas on the future of Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Hackathon: shaping youth ideas on the future of Europe

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: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Starting from the concept of “hackathon” as exploratory programming and marathon and as a tool for networking, knowledge sharing, and inspiring moments, the general scope of this project is the organisation of a “Eurothon”, a European event focused on Europe as a great motherland of the future with debates on roots, threats and ideal horizons, to explore and discuss the values and history of Europe. Final aim is to broaden and strengthen youngsters’ civic engagement and participation in democratic processes at the international, national and local level, through their active participation in this innovative training programme which will follow an integrative, student-centered and action-oriented approach, aimed to develop a culture of innovation within communities and amongst educators.

The project aims to:
a) enhance young people’s civic participation, providing them with the right information, tools and channels to make their voices heard by policy makers and relevant organisations and stand up as tomorrow’s change makers and new EU ambassadors;
b) increase social inclusion of young people on European values, while promoting intercultural dialogue and acceptance of diversity and tolerance;
c) strengthen young people’s sense of initiative, notably in the social field to support their communities;
d) promote equal learning, collaborative work and self-learning, through the involvement of young people in the EUROTHON training programme and event.
The target groups are young people and activists who are active in and for NGOs, youth organizations or wider civil society organizations, but also young people willing play a more active role as EU Influencer/Ambassador.

The project foresees to realize four Intellectual Outputs:

IO1 – METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK AND TRAINING MODULES DEVELOPMENT, which sees the development of the methodological framework and the training material to be used during the EUROTHON Event. There will be 5 modules dealing with different aspects of active citizenship (1- How to become a changemaker; 2- United in diversity; 3- Save the planet; 4- Social entrepreneurship is the way; 5-Be an EU ambassador!), which will represent the key topics of discussion during the 5 days hackathon event.

IO2 – EUROTHON ONLINE AREA, which sees the realization of an an online space for young activists and generally young users in which all the resources produced will be uploaded and made available as OER. The online area will have user-friendly interface and will include the e-modules and the videos for the online campaign, and will be directly linked to the Instagram and YouTube channels of the project.

IO3 – EUROTHON VIDEOS FOR THE ONLINE CAMPAIGN, which foresees the realization of a set of videos to be published on the EUROTHON online area and on the Instagram and YouTube channels. Most of the videos will be registered by young activists during the EUROTHON 5 days training event and will be sponsored in social channels to recruit other ambassadors and boost the multiplier effect in social channels. An apposite online campaign will be conducted through the social media of the project with the aim to help the community of EU Ambassadors grow.

IO4 – TOOLKIT FOR EU AMBASSADORS & INFLUENCERS, which will be based on the contents developed in IO1 and on the promotional material realized during the EUROTHON Event and will include a set of good practices, golden rules and useful information for those young people that want to espouse the cause and undertake different forms of political activism and participation, such as demonstrating, volunteering in associations and socializing and expressing their ideals through social media.

The project foresees seven Multiplier Events as dissemination moments and two LTT activities:
n.1 Short-term joint staff training events for the educators, which will take place in Italy, hosted by P1 e-Medine, whose scope is to test the methodology and the training contents prepared in IO1.
n.1 Blended mobility of young people, which will take place in Cyprus, hosted by P6 EUROSC, whose scope is to organize interactive and blended educational simulation, offering the participants various events centered around five state of the art European Values. The experience will be based on the teaching of theoretical and practical skills that have currently become essential for promoting the EU as a Community of such as Values.

During the project it is expected to increase the participants’ personal commitment to the European Community values, educated around the themes of 5 state of the art European Values, and to enhance their practical skills through the provision of a proper set of tools for such strengthened EU civic engagement. At the completion we expect the participants to have gained a clear and practical impetus towards a strengthened civic engagement as EU cultural Ambassadors and EU Influencers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 217561 Eur

Project Coordinator

Non-Governmental Organization – Observatory on Euro-Mediterranean Democracy, Knowledge and Common Heritage & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Institute for Erasmus Peace Solutions
• SENIOR EUROPA SOCIEDAD LIMITADA
• PRISM IMPRESA SOCIALE S.R.L.
• 21.YY Egitimciler Dernegi
• CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE TIMISOARA ASOCIATIA
• ACADEMY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP ASTIKI ETAIREIA
• G.G. EUROSUCCESS CONSULTING LIMITED