Support Mobility Activities Running through Tech – S.M.A.R.T. Youth Centers is a Strategic Partnership (Key Action 2 – KA2) of the Erasmus+ Programme funded by the Hellenic National Agency INEDIVIM (The Youth and Lifelong Learning Foundation). The project started on December 2021 and will run for 24 months under a consortium of 8 partnering organizations from 6 different European countries.
SMART is the continuation of 2 previous Strategic Partnerships projects of I.R.T.E.A. (STEPS Youth Centers and the VR in School Education and Civic Participation) under the general topic of introducing and integrating new technologies in youth work.
SMART’s main objectives are the following:
- The development of digital skills and competences of youth workers
- Ensuring the inclusive nature of learning opportunities
- The development of e-learning, mixed and distance learning skills
- The development of digital pedagogical skills of youth workers
- Empowering youth workers to provide high-quality, digital, non-formal inclusive education
Participants in this process will be youth workers and their main feature is that they wish to develop their digital skills in the field of Digital Youth Work (DYW). As a result, people with or without much experience in the field of Youth will be sought who are interested in gaining a background in digital tools and methodologies that will allow them to adapt their work to the new trends of digital activities in the youth field. The expected results of the project are identified in empowering and educating youth workers to be able to understand how digitization shapes societies, including its impact on education and the youth sector in general, to take into account the ‘digital culture’ of young people, to foster a more flexible culture in the adoption of digital tools in education, to design DYW actions in line with the needs and hopes of young people and to encourage the participation of young people in all phases of DYW.