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Using digital tools in the context of youth work was one of the key topics of our work in the past 15 months. We were exploring it through our project  'Digital Tools: to Engage, to Empower, to Connect’  that we were implementing together with our Macedonian partner ASK-Skopje. 

You can check out the project activities on the project blog and on our YouTube channel where you can also find various tutorials on tools such as Padlet, Canva, and Blogger.

The project 'Digital Tools: to Engage, to Empower, to Connect, 2021-2-CZ01-KA210-YOU-000048114 was implemented with the support of the Erasmus + Programme. 

At the start of April, we were hosting a workshop with the aim to test activities focus on body topics that we are developing within the project ‘BODYKIND’  2022-1-LV02-KA220-YOU-000085666'. 

A group of young people had the chance to increase their knowledge on topics related to body positivity, and neutrality, or reflect on stereotypes or the impact of social media on our perceptions. Moreover, young people were giving feedback on the activities that we will use to update them and make them more relevant to young people. 

Testing workshops will also take place in Latvia and North Macedonia and furthermore during the upcoming year you can expect even more activities including workshops for youth workers, or an international conference. Follow us for more updates!

The project is led by the Latvian organization  Piepildīto sapņu istaba and the partner from North Macedonia is  SPINDLE Skopje. 

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Začátkem dubna jsem realizovali workshop v rámci dlouhodobého projektu  ‘BODYKIND’  2022-1-LV02-KA220-YOU-000085666', ve kterém jsme partnery. Během workshopu jsme testovali nové aktivity, které vyvíjíme společně s našimi partnery z Lotyšska a Severní Makedonie. 

Lada z našeho týmu, která byla jednou z trenérek workshopu se o své zkušenosti rozepsala na svém blogu.

Více aktivit v rámci projektu bude proběhne letos i příští rok, kdy se budete moci zúčastnit workshopu pro pracovníky s mládeží, nebo mezinárodní konference. 

Erasmus + je programem, který umožňuje všem bez ohledu na věk získat zkušenosti, procvičit si angličtinu, a prozkoumat svět.

Ve středu 29.06. 2022 spolek Mission: Reconnect bude pořádat hodinové setkání otevřené všem, kteří by se rádi dozvěděli, jaké možnosti programem Erasmus + nabízí.

Hodinové setkání proběhne od 14:00 do 15:00 v hotelu Na Jizni a bude otevřeno mladým lidem, ale i těm, kteří s mládeží pracují, nebo všem těm, kteří by se chtěly dozvědět, jak tento program funguje, a jak je možné zúčastnit se mezinárodního projektu jak v České republice, tak třeba v Bulharsku, ve Francii, nebo i ve vzdálené Kostarice.

Kromě interaktivního představení různých možností, které program nabízí, účastníci budou mít možnost se i dozvědět o plánovaných mezinárodních aktivitách, které jsou plánovány na léto právě v Přerově. První z nich přivede od 11. července do Přerova představitelé Gruzie, Arménie, Rumunska, Severní Makedonie a dalších zemích. Druhá aktivita, které proběhne v srpnu se pak zaměří na digitální svět.

Digital tools are all around us but do we really know how to use them effectively? Do we have competencies to use digital tools to promote our projects, and to learn? These will be some of the questions that we will explore during our new project entitled 'Digital Tools: to Engage, to Empower, to Connect' that officially started.

 It will give us an opportunity to work together with our Macedonian partner @kariernisovetnici, http://www.ask.org.mk/ and involved participants from the Czech Republic and North Macedonia in research activities, international training courses and online mentoring sessions.

If you are a youth worker, teacher, or young person interested in digital tools follow us and the project page for updates.

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Participants from the Czech Republic, Latvia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Greece, Northern Macedonia, Poland and France are participating in “MediaSapiens: international training course about media literacy”, which is held in the Czech city of Prerov.

The first day of the training (March 13) started with an introduction by the trainers Ilona Olehlova and Inese Minsi about what specifically as competencies, skills and knowledge participants will be able to take and transfer from this event to future activities/projects that they may organize by NGO’s and youth organizations in their countries.

The training continued on the second day with the introduction of the basics of media literacy by the journalist and editor Bojan Blazevski. Through practical exercises, the participants analyzed the frontpages of printed magazines, photos of important international events published by world news agencies and published journalistic articles by media. Participants also were introduced on which elements have to look out when they read news websites (impressum, author of the article, sources of information, to further google information abou it, etc.).

In addition to the critical analysis of published media content, on the first day of the training, participants were able to learn more about how media functions today, the main functions of media, types of messages that all of us receive every day, the public interest as the basis of journalistic work and how a professionally structured journalistic article should looks like.

Participants had the opportunity to watch two videos why media literacy is important for us today and learn more about the specific case - creation of the whole network of young fake news producers in the Macedonian city of Veles. They worked on the task to make difference between information and comments through several practical examples. It was given a chance to them to do a practical journalistic work, searching for facts on the Internet for specific claims made by the trainer. The second day of the training ended up with an individual reflection of each participant on DO’s and DON’Ts in the news production.

The third day of the training was led by trainers Ilona Olehlova and Inese Minsi. Participants this time were focused on their own understanding of what media literacy means to them and what is their current knowledge about media literacy. Also, the topic of youth participation and activities that are important for working with young people through practical exercises were actualized.

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