About Us
General Objective
The general objective of the project is to empower disadvantaged youth through trainings on hard skills, soft skills and media literacy to use podcasts as a tool in their local contexts in order to increase their civic engagement and political participation.
The project is in line with the EU Strategy for Youth 2019-2027 that seeks to promote youth participation in democratic and political life; it supports social and civic participation and aims to ensure that all young people can have the necessary resources to participate in society. In this sense, the project focuses on the three areas of action of the strategy:
1. ENGAGEMENT of young people in the analysis, research, reflection and organization of sociocultural processes;
2. CONNECTING young people from different countries to create networks of collaboration and international cooperation;x`
3. EMPOWERING them as active digital citizens who are able to perform as main actors in a new concept of digital environment to overcome contradictions and social, environmental, economic and cultural crises that transcend the reality of today’s world.
Through the methodology of podcast creation and the trainings on their soft skills and media literacy, young people will create a voice for themselves in order to research, discuss, and inform their peers about important political societal, environmental, and other current issues that might concern them. It gives them the opportunity to encourage and participate in public dialogue, and inspire others to do so as well.
Specific Objectives
The specific objectives of the project are:
1. To build the capacity of young people, youth workers/trainers and youth organisations to use podcasts as a tool in order to increase the political engagement of their target group;
2. To increase the participation of young men and women as agents of change in the political life through creation and dissemination of podcasts;
3. To augment the use of podcast spaces for communicating the voice of disadvantaged young men and women as agents of change in politics at community, regional, national and international levels through podcasts.
Members
1. Two Plus Two, Italy
2. Action Synergy, Greece
3. Velos Youth, Greece
4. Asociatia Imago Mundi, Romania
5. University of Seville, Spain
6. HESED, Bulgaria
7. Volonteurope, Belgium
Target Groups
The project has two main target groups:
– Trainers/Facilitators/Youth workers that are working with young people with fewer opportunities from disadvantaged background
– Young people that are affected by conflict To ensure the dissemination and sustainability of the project, the project is going to include also as target groups local authorities, NGOs and media organisations.
Methodology
1. STEP 1: Creation of Training Materials
2. STEP 2: Training of Youth Workers/trainers
3. STEP 3: Podcast labs, organization of local trainings and production of podcasts.
STEP 4: Providing the young people of a disadvantaged background with a local and global scene and a motivation to raise their voice in the form of Castival.