About Project

Active participation of youth and their engagement is an important challenge for Europe. European countries need active young volunteers empowered by social media literacy and community media skills that will give chance them to reach positive impacts in local communities.

Increasing social media literacy and community media will help to build capacity of young people. Community media includes tools and networks that young people can use to transmit their voice with local heard media actions in the community to become more empowered.

Young people’s insufficient communication is an identified common problem in Europe, because they do not have enough necessary literacy and skills to effective communication. Community media will encourage young people to develop their skills and increase their potential to turn into more integrated with public domain so that they will claim their rights better and remain actions to their social life better. Otherwise, young people will face risks of marginalization.

The project aims

• to develop and assure young volunteers’ community media into civil society. The project will design and implement community media approaches and tools to create grassroots community development transfer to young volunteers.
• to share educational approaches as youth volunteers community media models, exchange good practices in local, national and European levels and empower young people’s active membership of local communities (municipalities, neighbourhoods, disadvantaged communities etc) and guide young people through a process, where they get to:

1. Gain social media literacy and community media skills
2. Obtain entrepreneurship skills to establish their own media (such as local news website, newsletter creation for local communities, blogs etc.).