Transforming Covid-19 into an Opportunity is a project aimed to help youngsters that are affected by Covid-19 by supporting young people in their search for jobs in digital spaces.

AIM

Transforming Covid-19 into an opportunity is a project aimed to help youngsters that are affected by Covid-19, as according to the International Labour Organization (ILO), the pandemic is having a “devastating and disproportionate” impact on youth employment. The project aims to better prepare young people to be able to find jobs in the digital spaces.

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Covid-19 is leading to the emergence of a “lockdown generation”, as the crisis hits young people’s job prospects. In the middle of this crisis, young people, recognized as natural cultural actors and producers, can be observed as and opportunities for cultural and creative development. This way, this project is aiming at ensuring the development of new digital tools that, through non-formal-education settings, could help unemployed youngsters to get better training to skill up their creative and digital skills. This training and training tools are oriented to ensure that young people are prepared to get economically active in the digital sector minimizing the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic slow-down that it is creating.

PROJECT MAIN ACTIVITIES

• Creation of audiovisual training materials called ‘Digital skill-up! From 0 to 10 in a nutshell’ for youngsters who want to learn more about digital creativity
• Creation of a mobile APP (WeDoit 4.0) to connect young job-seekers and digital job providers
• Creation of policy recommendations aiming to foster youth employability
• A training activity “Training for creative young digital starters”
• International social media campaign and six multiplier events

Transforming Covid19 into an opportunity is funded by Erasmus+ and is a collaboration between 7 partners: Association Active Youth (Lithuania), YouthProAktiv (Belgium), 2:59 (Spain), Imagine Apps (Spain), EKO (Greece), EIG (Turkey), Creative+ (Romania).

WAYS TO GET INVOLVED

For youngsters:

• Watch our audiovisual training materials called ‘Digital skill-up! From 0 to 10 in a nutshell’ for youngsters who want to learn more about digital creativity
• Download and use our mobile APP (WeDoit 4.0) to easier find employers who will employ digital talent
• Participate in our training for unemployed youth to learn new skills
• Take part in our events

For youth workers:

• Access, use and share our audiovisual training materials and mobile APP with youngsters who want to learn new digital skills and get employed
• Access and use our policy recommendations aiming to foster youth employability
• Take part in our events

For employers & business owners:

• Join our network of mobile APP (WeDoIt 4.0) users as employers willing to employ newly trained, digital creators
• Take part in our events

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