What’s APP Youth! Erasmus Project

Project Title

What’s APP Youth!

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

ICT-Mobile Application and digital literacy are growing to be increasingly relevant in the global market today. On one hand, Europe is in the midst of digitizing its own market to catch up to global trends, strengthened with European Union policy backing with the creation of Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE). On the other hand, Asia is growing and offers many possibilities in technology, entrepreneurship and digital competence. Both regions are rich in experience, knowledge resource and opportunities to share with each other. While trainings for young people on employment and entrepreneurship exist, it is high time that these concepts are connected to the demands of the digitizing market – at the very least, to make young people more competitive and penetrate the market.

WAPPY’s overall aspiration was to create a conducive environment where ideas, learning and competences are explored. What it offered are two things:
1) as the tech-savvy generation, a competitive advantage and opportunity to finally penetrate the market; and
2) new jobs, markets and possibilities to explore either as budding digital experts or entrepreneurs. To ensure this, the foundations have to be set in place: availability of infrastructure and formal and non-formal learning support, as well as spaces or learning incubators to test out ideas, concepts and learning.

The project is comprised of a systematic line-up of activities that enhances the capacity of youth workers and young people in ICT competence and digital literacy through Mobile Application to promote employment and entrepreneurship. It aims to address the needs of both youth workers and young people through main components: capacity building for youth workers; capacity building for young people; and application and demonstration. The project has featured an ICT-Mobile Application training for Youth Workers, thanks to an innovative proposal made by partners and experts, completed by specific consultations that took place in each partner country.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 105424 Eur

Project Coordinator

PISTES SOLIDAIRES & Country: FR

Project Partners