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No selfphones, No problems, Or What?
No selfphones, No problems, Or What?
Start date: May 1, 2016,
End date: Nov 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The name - No selfphones, no problems, or What? - is based on the topic of the project. In this project the main aim is to raise youngsters self-awareness about their use of smart equipment (smartphones, tablets), to develop youngsters self-analyzing and communication skills. This project involves other essentials goals: to develop a sense of initiative, entrepreneurship, intercultural learning, self-motivation, learning to learn, experiment analyzing and making conclusion of experiment. The project has two main activities, whereby one youth exchange will take place in Tartumaa, Estonia from 25.06-02.07 on 2016 and second youth exchange 8.10-15.10 on 2016 in Elche, Spain. Total duration of the project is seven months. Project's sub-action is mobility of young people, where 28 participants will come together from two partner-countries - Estonia and Spain. From both partner-countries are involved 12 youngsters aged between 13 -18 whom worked out project topic. In addition project involves two leaders for each country. In this project have involved eight young people with fewer opportunities, who is facing economical and social difficulties. During the project we will turn extra emphasis to organize youth exchanges and to execute successfully experiments. During the youth exchanges we will deal with various topics to reach project objectives, where we will use discussions in small groups, group works, street questionnaires, laughing therapy, orientation etc., and after all there will be feedback to reach the highest result. Between the youth exchanges there will be experiments, where each participants will get certain task that she/he have to complete with accordance rules. Experiments are directly related with use of smart equipment and communication with family and friends. All methods in the project are chosen by partner-countries, because of that responsibility have shared. The project result will be youngsters experience booklet, where are written down their ideas and learning about youth exchanges and experiments. Experience booklet will be shared in Tartu County and Elche city youth centers/youth organizations, within participants can share their experience with many other youngsters. On the basis of future perspective the project offers for young people opportunity to self-analyze themselves and help to do first steps to fulfill their dreams, also they are more self-aware (here is the importance of young people's critical thinking about use of smart equipment). The project offers a multitude possibilities to analyze own communication skills and to develop that all together. Good communication skills supporting youngsters in the future. In the end of the project all participants understand better their role in teamwork, know more about initiative, entrepreneurship, cultural learning, self-motivation and bases of own learning.