Using new technologies for civic education. Generating new knowledge on how to support youth workers to increase the political competencies among new generations Erasmus Project

Project Title

Using new technologies for civic education. Generating new knowledge on how to support youth workers to increase the political competencies among new generations

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Quality of democracy is measured through the level of involvement of citizens in political activities such as voting or presenting initiatives of laws and policies. Although new generations of citizens express themselves more through virtual channels, their political participation via traditional channels is decreasing in most Western countries. Euro-barometer and Latino-barometer have offered enough empirical evidence about this process.While historical political actors (political parties, trade unions and lobbies) and institutions (parliaments) still play roles defined in the 19th century dictionary of democracy, young people are thinking in terms of demands and protests via social media. This political gap is even worse in the case of those young people who belong to the poorest social classes. In a landscape of this kind, quality of democracy is clearly diminished as a consequence of the low levels of conventional political activities exercised by the “replacement generation”. In other words, no young voices expressed means no young voices heard when public policies are designed.This project aims two objectives: (1) Generate an exchange of good practices on which strategies really work and are attractive for the civic-political empowerment of new generations (from unfavorable economic environments). (2) Develop a free virtual tool (App) for civic-political empowerment of new generations (belonging to unfavorable economic environments).The exchange of good practices and the App will support the organisations and youth workers to execute activities focused on the increase of political competencies of young people with fewer opportunites. Both will include theoretical and practical contents to enable the development among young generations of five specific political competencies: political knowledge, political attention (interest), political participation, political efficacy and political tolerance.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 78024,44 Eur

Project Coordinator

H.R.Y.O HUMAN RIGHTS YOUTH ORGANIZATION & Country: IT

Project Partners

• CEPAG CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS PARAGUAYOSANTONIO GUASCH
• ASOCIACION CIVIL GURISES UNIDOS
• BIDERBOST BOSCAN & ROCHIN SL