Description
"The project will engage 10 teams of student council members to: - Develop education e-volunteering, i.e. mutual help and knowledge sharing through social network technologies, creating education videos and holding webinars. We will demonstrate that this can minimise the “plague"" of hiring private tutors and offer a viable alternative to hate speech, making secret videos, limiting yourself to using the web just for entertainment; - Citizenship e-inspiration, i.e. developing and posting online content that demonstrates that grass-root youth initiatives make sense and make a difference in the community. Having selected a specific topic or area, young people will search the web for ways similar problems are tackled elsewhere in Poland or Europe and then they will take action to actually address their local issues and document their work in short videos. The planning phase will be supported with workshops, a video conference with youth in Oslo, and a discussion during the session of the Youth City Council."
Summary of project results
"One of the most important social and economic problems affecting young people in the Sądeckie region is a difficult situation of the labour market: unemployment (c. 13% in 2014), only few big companies, low wages. Young people do not envisage their future in this region. They see better opportunities in other countries or in big cities. That is why so few young people get involved in activities related to their local communities. However, they are willing to join initiatives on social networking sites and they know how to use modern communication tools. The Centre of Mobile Education Foundation wants to use this potential and is the only organization in the region that uses online networks for organizing students' mutual help and teaches how to use the networking tools for coordinating youth activities and civic education. The aim of the project was to develop civic engagement of young people of the Sadeckie region, to develop skills necessary for peer cooperation, for sharing knowledge through social networks and for increasing youth participation in making decisions concerning their own communities. The project implementation resulted in creating 5 youth groups, which provide the so-called education e-volunteering service and 5 groups of youth advocates of civic activities in their schools and in the municipality. Young people took part is training on civic participation, legal protection of image, ways of counteracting cyber violence and on techniques of preparing multimedia materials. Young project participants carried out social initiatives, which also involved their peers. A web portal for young people was launched and it includes educational materials and videos. The project beneficiaries were secondary schools students from Nowy Sącz and its vicinity. The project partner was an organization from Norway, Dabrowska Renhold. They enabled the young Polish project participants to get acquainted with examples of youth social activities addressing respect for other cultures and to learn how to prepare effective information campaigns. The local partner was Association of Secondary Schools Student Governments “Academy of Self-Governance"" from Nowy Sącz, which supported recruitment of project participants in secondary schools and also promoted the project."
Summary of bilateral results
"The partnership project included a video conference during which specific case studies of youth and parents living in Oslo were presented with a focus on how tolerance towards minorities and other cultures was ingrained in the local schools in Norway's capital. Young people learned about how specific issues with intolerance were solved and about the importance of a fair information campaign in shaping our attitudes towards the migration crisis. One of the groups used this experience to deal with the problem in their own school: they held a discussion with peers about their attitudes to migrants, held video conferences with youth in other countries about their perceptions of migrants from other cultures who live in their countries. Some of the conversations were posted on the project website along with links to balanced and fair publications about the migration crisis. The discussion with youth in Oslo addressed the problem of cyber-violence. The participants concluded more legal awareness and respect for the law among youth were critical. The project ensured access to a consultation with a legal professional and we posted some of his replies to questions about legal ramifications of hate speech and cyber-violence in public space. "