Main theme
Employment
Other relevant themes
Life projects, access to education, promote inclusion and integration
Actors involved
All Digital (formerly Telecentre-Europe AISBL), Belgium, Media Actie Kuregem Stad (Maks), Belgium, IASIS, Greece, Stiftung Digitale Chancen (SDC), Germany, Fondazione Mondo Digitale (FMD), Italy, Colectic (formerly Associacio per a Joves Teb), Spain and Centro Studi Citta di Foligno Associazione (CSF), Italy
Aims
The Digital Welcome Programme aimed to exchange best practices between organisations specialised in the digital inclusion of disadvantaged groups and based on this exchange, to develop and pilot an innovative methodology for social inclusion of young third-country nationals in educational and social activities, cultural life, volunteering and digital creation activities.
Description
The programme supported disadvantaged young people to improve their language and computer skills. Two rounds of pilots were completed, during which 120 young third-country nationals aged 16 to 30 participated in creative IT workshops. They were trained as mentors and then worked as volunteers and then organised 40 creative IT workshops, reaching 400 people in total in mixed groups of third-country nationals and European nationals. The content of these workshops fostered peer learning and exchanges between local communities and third-country nationals. Additionally, as part of the programme, young participants produced digital stories to reflect on the programme experience.
Results/ Outcomes
Over 1000 young people have been reached in different aspects of the project. In addition to the direct reach of the project, the digital stories sought to reach 1,000 of the young people’s peers to motivate them to volunteer or participate in educational, social and cultural activities and 500 key stakeholders in education, social and cultural organisations to raise awareness about the need to make activities more inclusive for third-country nationals.
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