Description
The main goal of the project is to increase the awareness and motivation and develop skills of young people for civic e-activeness. The main target group are students, but to reach the target group and project´s goals, the project focuses on civic education teachers. In cooperation with Narva College of the University of Tartu, teachers are trained and equipped with updated, interactive teaching materials (containing videos, case-studies etc). One of the target groups of the project is also Estonian municipalities. Their existing e-engagement practices are tested by young people and case-studies, new ideas and technical solutions are generated on this basis. By the end of the project, besides the new interactive study material, students obtain real e-participation experiences by testing new e-participation solutions.
Summary of project results
The main goal of the project was to increase the awareness and motivation and develop skills of young people for e-activeness. To reach the main target group and project´s goals, focus was put on teachers of civic education. In cooperation with Narva Colledge of the University of Tartu teachers were trained and equipped with updated, interactive teaching material (containing videos of case-studies etc) about e-state and e-participation mainly targeted for the use in classroom. All materials are available on eGA´s website
http://www.ega.ee/et/e-kodanik/oppematerjalid. Another target group of the project were Estonian municipalities. Their existing e-engagement practices were analyzed and new ideas generated. To enhance the open and transparent governance and engamenet of the community a joint seminar was organized for representatives of local government, NGO-s, IT-Community. The biggest value and impact of the project was that the direct beneficiaries of the project (teachers and students) were also directly involved into designing next steps, next actvities and outcomes. This way the outcome corresponds better to the real needs and expectations of target groups, project outcomes will be used and sustained.
Summary of bilateral results