Explore the Digital World

D(at)YW – Upgrading Digital Youth Work is an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership for innovation and exchange of good practices.

The project pioneers to design a Complete Tool Kit and a Knowledge Pack for developing, implementing and monitoring various inclusive strategies for promoting deep digital skills.

Methodological Approach

UTILIZING THE NON-WORKING TIME

(i.e. after school/college, summertime, afternoon) available in a constructive way to set up a deep tech club.

CREATING SYNERGIES

between youth organisations, schools and the business world to bridge the skills-gap between education and the labour market.

INTRODUCING OPEN BADGES

as a method to validate and award the digital skills acquired by both young people and youth workers.

CREATING TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION

between partners for the organisation of competitions, events, C1 mobility, digital movement as part of the EU strategy.

Stages

Research

During the first stage the consortium is conducting various surveys to identify the existing digital skills gap between young people’s abilities and the existing requirements of the job market.

Research

Design

The second stage is about designing and developing all essential teaching and learning material to support the promote of deep-tech digital skills through synergies and hubs.

Design

Testing

At the third stage a short-term training for youth workers will be organised to test all developed materials.

Testing

Implementation

After testing, the feedback will be incorporated into the designed product and presented again to the wider audience.

Implementation

Dissemination

During the final phase of the project’s dissemination plan, which includes the completion of the planned activities and the implementation of the D(at)YW for digital literacy, each partner will organise a national conference in their country.

Dissemination

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Surveyed youngsters
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Businesses interviewed
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Modules developed
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Deep tech clubs

Results

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D(at)YW: Open Badge on 3D Design & 3D Printing

October 21, 2020
Our D(at)YW: 3D Design & Printing Course has not only offered valuably knowledge, but also recognised participants\’ efforts and achievements. After finishing the course online ...
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D(at)YW Campaign: Digital Literacy

October 20, 2020
? 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation reports that the number of countries with political disinformation campaigns more than doubled to 70 in the ...
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D(at)YW Campaign: Digital Health

October 19, 2020
? The research published in 2017 in the American Journal of Epidemiology, conducted among 5,000 adults, shows that exposure to the carefully curated images from others’ ...
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D(at)YW Campaign: Digital Privacy

October 18, 2020
? Digital Society Index 2020, conducted by Dentsu Aegis Network, reports that 70% of the surveyed participants from Germany ?? are of the opinion that data misuse is ...
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D(at)YW Campaign: What are your Digital Concerns?

October 17, 2020
Do you have any digital concerns ? you are eager to share? Digital health? Data misusage? Internet of Things – or whatever it is? ? Write here in the ...
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D(at)YW Campaign: Digital Natives

October 16, 2020
Are you born into the digital age and can\’t remember the time without a wireless internet in you life? ? Then you must a be a Digital ...
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Timeline

May, 2019

Kick-off Meeting in Erfurt, Germany

October, 2019

Transnational Meeting in Lancaster, UK

March, 2020

Transnational Meeting in Reus, Spain

June, 2020

Short-term Joint Staff Training Nicosia, Cyprus

December, 2020

Multiplier Events in Germany, UK, Greece, Spain and Cyprus

December, 2020

Transnational Meeting in Brussels, Belgium

January, 2021

Final Conference in Brussels, Belgium

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Blog Posts

D(at)YW: October Meet-up of Local Partners in Erfurt, Germany

October 9, 2020
After the second try-out with the C1 Activity, the German partners has organised another local meet-up to discuss further development of the project. After success ...
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D(at)YW: Training of Trainers for Digital Education – C1 2.0 – Online

October 2, 2020
Between September 29th and 30th, the consortium of partners has managed to run the 2.0 version of the C1 Activity – Training of Trainers for ...
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D(at)YW: Back From The Summer Break 2020

September 13, 2020
On Monday, September 7th, 2020 the teams of Plattform e.V. and CGE Culture Goes Europe – Soziokulturelle Initiative Erfurt e.V. have met in Saline 34, in the newly renovated Social Impulse ...
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D(at)YW: Training of Trainers for Digital Education – Day 2

July 8, 2020
For three days (July 7-9th, 2020), 22 educators across all of Europe took part in the training of trainers, provided by the Erasmus+ KA2 project DYW ...
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D(at)YW: Training of Trainers for Digital Education – Day 1

July 7, 2020
As part of the Plattform\’s Erasmus+ KA2 project DYW – Upgrading Digital Youth Work, , 22 educators across all of Europe took part in the ...
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D(at)YW: Local Partners Meet-up in Erfurt, Germany

June 26, 2020
Despite (or some might say owing to ?) the COVID-19 outbreak, the work in the digital world is pacing fast! 
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