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Description
Project objective is to increase the digital capacity in local governments in the field of youth work by creating innovative smart solutions that are youth centred for the better quality of youth work (including e-participation opportunities) as well as raising the digital competence of youth workers through the development of a learning environment and thematic trainings. The project strives to contribute to reaching a wider goal where the specialists dealing with the youth are able to – in addition to evaluating and developing one’s own digital competence skills – offer versatile learning and evolving possibilities to the youth corresponding to the trends of the future and via that also giving their input into the development of the society as a whole, incl. the green transition.
The project activities will result in the creation of the e-participation platform enabling the youth to raise their ideas and problematic areas through digital solutions and include youths through participatory democracy in the decision-making processes at municipal government level.
The project will also deliver a model of digital competence and evaluation means for youth workers and will train at least 100 youth workers in at least 48 local governments in order to raise their capacity to implement smart youth work solutions in their work.
Summary of project results
Project objective was to increase the digital capacity in local governments in the field of youth work by creating innovative smart solutions that are youth centred for the better quality of youth work (including e-participation opportunities) as well as raising the digital competence of youth workers through the development of a learning environment and thematic trainings. The project strived to contribute to reaching a wider goal where the specialists dealing with the youth are able to – in addition to evaluating and developing one’s own digital competence skills – offer versatile learning and evolving possibilities to the youth corresponding to the trends of the future and via that also giving their input into the development of the society as a whole, incl. the green transition.
The project developed three training programmes with at least two modules each for raising digital competences and evaluation means for youth workers and local governmet specialists. Thereafter, the project trained at 207 youth workers in 66 local governments in order to raise their capacity to implement smart youth work solutions in their work.
A digital competence framework for youth workers and a digital maturity framework for youth work institutions were prepared by Tallinn University, as well as relevant tools for evaluation. And a study “The best foreign practices in the field of smart youth work and their applicability in Estonia” was completed.
The creation of the e-participation platform enabling the youth to raise their ideas and problematic areas through digital solutions and include youths through participatory democracy in the decision-making processes at municipal government level was cancelled.
Study materials as well as the digital competence framework for youth workers and a digital maturity framework for youth work institutions have been uploaded to e-koolikott.ee portal and are available free of charge. The digital competence framework has been tested with youth workers and local government officials and together with the study materials it should become an integral part of the self-evaluation process and complementary training process for local governments.
Estonian Association of Youth Workers will continue with large-scale trainings for youth workers and modules developed within the project are integrated to these trainings as well.