Carpe DIEM! (Digital Innovation in Educational Methodology)

Aims & objectives

A 5-day international training designed for Youth Workers who wanted to explore innovative digital tools and AI tools, and at the same time introduce the digital tools developed within their own organization.
The main objective was to give participants opportunities to exchange experiences, methodologies, and digital educational tools to improve their quality and improve non-formal and informal learning methodologies.
The focus of the activity was oriented towards exchanging digital tools and innovative practices that aimed at training, recognition, and professionalization of Youth Workers. We dived into the future of technology and how to use AI tools, text, and text-to-image generators, and how they were going to change the way we worked with young people. We discussed AI real-world applications, the ethical considerations surrounding its use, as well as speculated the future developments in the methodologies in Youth Work that lay ahead.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

The group was composed of 16 youth workers and project managers of youth centers, ngos and cultural centers from Italy, Armenia, Belgium, Finland, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain.

Training methods used & main activities

The methodology used was a combination of workshops, role-plays, activities introduced from the project partners, manual activities from "Gender Matters" (CoE), newly designed activities for this specific project.

Outcomes of the activity

The main result is the Booklet which is published in SALTO-Youth. The booklet is the perfect summary of what was done and achieved during the project.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was the main coordinator and trainer of the activities. I've designed some activities and facilitated the group process.

I worked on this training for 5 days as a full time trainer.