Social Active Youth 2.0

Social Active Youth 2.0 is an 8-days Youth Exchange for young leaders, youngsters and volunteers that will introduce them to the contexts, forms and tools of social media.

Main aim of this YE is to equip the participants with the knowledge, critical thinking ability, and practical skills they need to meet the personal, professional, and civic challenges posed by social media.

Proposed program includes a mix of hands-on, practical tuition together with theory, case studies and strategy tips. Young participants will discover the possible pitfalls of using social media, learn appropriate netiquette, and look at examples of how to best construct and spread their messages to get results.

 With help of practical group and individual exercises blogging, micro-blogging, document, image and video sharing applications, social networks and social bookmarking will be explored.  Participants will become familiar with a range of online communication tools, analyze their uses and implications, explore how can social media help non-governmental organizations to increase active participation and citizenship of young people, to foster inclusion, to achieve organizational goals and promote their causes.
The knowledge acquired will be immediately applied as participants will develop a concrete social media strategy for the improvement of their own societies at the end of the YE. Youth Exchange be hosted in Nurri, Italy, and gather 42 participants from Lithuania, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, Croatia and Italy.