SDGYOU

About the project

Sustainable Digitalization Goals with YOUth

The need for this project lays in fact that digital literacy can have a great potential to help to deliver the SDGs. Young people in Europe spend an increasing amount of their time consuming digital media and technology (videostreaming, messaging, blogging, vlogging, etc), which can provide a place for young people to work, to learn, to share their experience, to exchange their views, to have fun with their friends and to actively participate in society. The podcast, video story and photo storytelling and online training module, that will be created during “SDGYOU: Sustainable Digitalization Goals with YOUth” will be a way to start to create this space and a door for possible follow-up online activities enhance participation of youth towards the SDGs.
As young leaders of tomorrow, it is pivotal that youth should be informed and engaged with the global vision for the future. Over the next ten years, youth will not only directly experience the outcome of SDGs and plans but will also be the key driver for their successful implementation. And precisely for this reason, it is vital to raise awareness about the 17 SDGs among youth, build online portal for engage and promotion of SDGs 2015-2030, and in the same time create the conditions for active engagement of youth worker, youth organisation and young people.
SDGYOU is a project approved and cofunded by Erasmus+, under the  Key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices - Capacity building in the field of youth, and it will last 24 months.

Aim of the project

SDGYOU

"Sustainable Digitalization Goals with YOUth” tends to foster new non-formal learning through open and innovative practices, which will raise digital competences of partner organization and youth workers, in order to contribute in achievement of SDG's goal through implementing local, national and international activities.

SDGYOU objectives:

  • To identify innovative practices in both delivering digital youth work and upskilling youth worker’s digital competencies and to exchange on how digital tools are used in youth work in Europe
  • To engage youth in the SDG’s goals and encourage them to see themselves as protagonists of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
  • To develop youth workers’ skills, competences and knowledge on digitalization through training that meets their needs and the needs of their communities and young people they work with
  • To create space for making new contacts, creating new networks and opportunities to develop digital youth work for achievement of SDG’s goals.

Project methodology

This project emphasis the link between the digital storytelling methodology and youth awareness of SDG’s. While at first glance the two may seem unrelated, digital storytelling has a profound way of affecting people’s perception of the world around them. Digital Storytelling is a relatively new term which describes the practice of ordinary people who use digital tools to tell their story (digital narratives). This innovative character will have affects on: acquisition of new knowledge, the attainment of new skills and the development of creativity, expressive competencies and a greater awareness of self and others.

In addition, the project uses innovative approaches to methodology. Within the project, one seminar for youth organizations’ management and youth leaders and one training for trainers and youth workers will be organized. This way we will make interventions into 2 directions: first one is to support youth leaders and youth organizations’ management to enhance their digital skill to engage in SDGs and second one is to introduce and integrate the SDGs in youth work and youth field, using digital technologies.

Expected results:

  • 7 video storytelling related to SDGs
  • 7 photo storytelling related to SDGs
  • 7 podcast related to SDGs as an episodic series of digital audio files that a user can download in order to listen. Podcast will be reserved for the local and national activist who advocate SDG’s through different activities. “Think global act local” will be a main message of podcast.
  • Online training module for localization of SDG’s goals – each partner organization will record, session, activity, related to SDGs. At the end when we collect all the recorded materials, one training module will be established.

Project partners

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Society Support Alliance

Association “Society Support Alliance” is a voluntary, non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit youth association, established in January 2014 by a group of experts and practitioners of youth work. The team has already established international cooperation with other individuals, organisations and stakeholders by working on a national and European level in the previous years.

Student Tolar Foundation (Fundacija Študentski tolar)

The purpose of the Student Tolar Foundation (Fundacija Študentski tolar), the institution of Students organization of University of Ljubljana (ŠOU v Ljubljani), is to help students in need. Our main activities include scholarships for students in need, material assistance and the provision of subsidized education to students in need, as well as efforts to improve the social situation of students. We also help with free psychotherapeutic help programs, proofreading and printing diploma and master's theses. We help students with children with financial aid, and we give students free tickets for various activities.

Universitatea Aurel Vlaicu din Arad

Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad (UAV) is a Higher education institution that continues the academic
tradition of the region. Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, awarded Aurel
Vlaicu University of Arad with "the highest degree of trust".

Association for Progress, Education and Lobbying

Association PEL is non-profit, non-governmental organization with aim to improve the situation of young people and women in all areas of social life. This is achieved by promotion of human rights and voluntarism and their values and by making these things possible to all citizens.

DISHA International Foundation Trust

DISHA International Foundation Trust is a non-profit NGO, located in Aurangabad, Maharashtra in India. Focused on Youth Education with non formal techniques - capacity building and personality development, foreign language classes, environmental awareness programs, cleaning campaigns, workshops, hygiene programs, women empowerment, agriculture and farming.

Tổ chức Phát triển Việc làm Thanh thiếu niên và Xã hội YESD

The social enterprise ” Youth Employment and Society Development” was established by the young Vietnamese women group working in Hanoi to support the disadvantaged youth. Since 2015, we have started this project by researching the life condition of the disadvantaged youth to better provide them with good support and meet their needs. YESD works in 2 main areas: Non-formal education and Sustainable tourism.