Explore the Cities of Learning blended course content and resources to advance your expertise in building unique digital youth work strategies guided by a systemic approach to facilitate digital transformation.

Complete the following course activities:

• Integrate young people’s digital rights into your practices and organisational policies through the participation of young people, the involvement of youth workers and the support of youth work managers.
• Assess, develop, and recognise young people's digital literacies, youth workers' digital competencies and digital capacities within your organisation.

• Involve young people, youth workers and organisation managers to explore what it takes to build and sustain meaningful digital infrastructure for digital youth work.

• Involve young people, youth workers and organisation managers in exploring what it takes to create a broad-minded and transformational working culture.

• Explore Leading for Change and continue to learn how to leader a successful digital transitions in a way that it builds confidence, embraces innovation, and creates immersive, inclusive learning environments.

• Explore the Digital Resource Hub online library and continue to learn how to assess and ensure quality of your digital activities for young people.

• Presentation slides on digital competences for youth workers and young people
• Presentation slides on digital infrastructure for youth work
• Presentation slides on innovative and broad-minded working cultures
• Mentimeter results about digital youth work involvement and understanding
• Mentimer results about digital infrastructure for youth work
• Padlet board to contribute to conversations about digital rights competencies in youth work

Highlights of this online training activity:

• Self-paced online course with an opportunity to meet and learn from the Digital Youth Work experts and Cities of Learning partners
• Focuses on developing digital youth work strategies and practices in youth work and non-formal education;
• Certified training: The Cities of Learning Network will offer opportunities for course participants to assess, validate, and recognise learning.
• Digitally friendly: The training and learning methodology and activities include digital tools, platforms, and Open Badges.
• Although the initial phase will be brief, the course offers opportunities for long-term involvement in the Cities of Learning Network activities in the follow-up.
• Endorsed by the broad partnership of Cities of Learning members.

Participants profile:

• Youth work managers

• Youth workers* and non-formal educators
• Group leaders in youth projects
• Trainers, facilitators and educators
• Youth programmes and projects managers
• Mentors and coaches
• Career counsellors and advisers
• Organisation managers

Digital credentials and certification

• Laimonas Ragauskas, Awero, Vilnius City of Learning
• Nerijus Kriauciunas, Cities of Learning Network
• Sandra Zoomers, Breakthrough, Dutch Cities of Learning
• Monique Raphaela-Boezen, CITI, Curaçao Island of Learning:
• Urška Česnik, TiPovej!, Ljubljana City of Learning