Call for participants: Digital Storytelling for Understanding
A training course, September 20-30, Medzev, Slovakia
28. august 2024
Aim: Exploring the concept of digital storytelling and the positive impact it can have as a method of working with queer youth.
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Our project addresses two important needs that are visible amongst youth workers actively involved in local solidarity work. The first of these needs is their lack of knowledge of practical but innovative methods that can be used for the benefits of their target groups. The second need is the observed reluctance to use methods based on digital means of communication that stems from either lack of knowledge or lack of appreciation of the potential of this kind of tools for youth work.
This project seeks to address both of the issues mentioned by giving youth workers a chance to go through an intensive training on a method that is practical and can be implemented while working with different kind of groups and that at the same time is very much based on the assumption that digital competences are crucial for organizing high quality innovative youth projects. |
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About the project
Digital Storytelling for Understanding is a 9 days long training that aims to offer digital storytelling methodology to youth workers and educators who work with young people, youth at risk of social exclusion and specifically queer youth. Through experiential learning of the wide concept of digital storytelling, participants will acquire new creative skills that will help them improve their work with youth, and eventually lead them towards empowering young people to take charge of their lives.
Objectives
- To support the professional development of youth workers and improve the quality of youth work across Europe through innovation. In order to reach this objective we will introduce youth workers with digital storytelling methodologies, give them means to reach young people with their projects and campaigns promoting peace education values.
- To facilitate personal development of the participants and their target groups. Participants will experience digital storytelling exercises and express their personal stories. Digital storytelling workshops enhance media literacy, give people a voice that enables them to communicate in a new way with mixed media. Participants will have a chance to experience these benefits for their own development and learn how to provide similar experience to young people and other youth workers.
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Storytelling and digital tools are used world-wide to help communicate brand messages and market products and services. Professional use of digital storytelling helps to present organizations better which might result in more public support for their activities. Participants will also bring back to their organizations new ideas and tools that can be used to develop innovative activities and reach new target groups or improve existing programs. |
What are we going to do?
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🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ NB: While this is not a queer-specific training, we welcome all queer-identified people or people who work with queer (young) people. We strive to create a queer-inclusive safer space. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Dates & Venue
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September 20 - arrival day
September 21-29 - training days September 30 - departure day You can start your travels earlier or later but you should not exceed the maximum travel budget. For example, you will fly in to Budapest a few days earlier to spend them exploring the city and then you come to the training. 📍 Ranč Šugov, near Medzev/Košice, Slovakia (map: Ranč Šugov ). Transportation from and to Košice will be arranged. |
Participant’s profile - Who are we looking for?
Ideal participant is already involved in or plans running educational activities within the partner organisations and has motivation to develop their competence as a trainer/facilitator of inclusive educational activities – mainly utilizing non-formal learning methods, digital storytelling and dealing with a human rights education topic.
Age-wise, we prefer people over 18, but we can take a highly-motivated 17-year old.
Age-wise, we prefer people over 18, but we can take a highly-motivated 17-year old.
Participating countries
Participant should have home address or temporary/permanent address in one of these countries: Türkiye, Spain, Lithuania, Croatia, Georgia, Cyprus, Greece, Serbia, Romania, Italy, Slovakia
Are you motivated but not from a participating country? Sign up anyway and we will see what can be done.
Are you motivated but not from a participating country? Sign up anyway and we will see what can be done.
Travel budget
How to find out the distance?
Use this tool to find out: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/resources-and-tools/distance-calculator - put in either your home town or the capital of your country and use the distance that is longer.
*Green travel rates apply if you use anything else than a plane for the majority of your route (length-wise). If you are not sure, contact us.
Travel budget according to the application:
23 € - Slovakia
180 € - Serbia, Romania
275 € - Türkiye, Spain, Lithuania, Greece, Cyprus, Croatia, Italy
360 € - Georgia
Given the tight timeline we can be flexible with these amounts.
Nearest airports to check for travel: Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Cracow. Košice has an airport, but it’s usually rather expensive to travel there.
Use this tool to find out: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/resources-and-tools/distance-calculator - put in either your home town or the capital of your country and use the distance that is longer.
*Green travel rates apply if you use anything else than a plane for the majority of your route (length-wise). If you are not sure, contact us.
Travel budget according to the application:
23 € - Slovakia
180 € - Serbia, Romania
275 € - Türkiye, Spain, Lithuania, Greece, Cyprus, Croatia, Italy
360 € - Georgia
Given the tight timeline we can be flexible with these amounts.
Nearest airports to check for travel: Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Cracow. Košice has an airport, but it’s usually rather expensive to travel there.
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