Youth Involvement
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Participants
Finland
Humak (University of Applied Sciences) has engaged students from its all campus. We train Community educator (youth work) and cultural management specialists.
Humak and Finnish Institute in Estonia jointly edited and published the Diggiloo publication. Enjoy!
e.g. Jyväskylä Campus – students involved in videoprojects with local youth groups.
Humak has been updating the Diggiloo+ Youtube playlist with all the material we received from the youth activities during 2021-2023.
Diggiloo’s Youtube Playlist
YoutubeYoung Culture (Nuori kulttuuri)
Participating as a network (Roots) and providing a stage to exhibit Diggiloo+ cultural products spring 2023 in Kuopio Young Culture Festival. The festival reached over 1000 young people performing in different arts forms.
Young Culture Digifestival 25.-27.5.2023. Diggiloo+ participants were participating and presenting in several programs:
- Streamed panel discussion: Culture and art as an international conversation: How do culture and art appear in different countries?
- Nuori Kulttuuri LIVE – evening program
Diggiloo activity for young people: Mannequin workshop, Maria Tengvall.
Running an Interactive Game with Young People for a Local Museum – see article in the Diggiloo Publication, Anna-Linnea Usvalinna.
Game over project stand by Humak and University of Eastern Finland, Nina-Elise Koivumäki.
Youth Helsinki, City of Helsinki
Youth Helsinki has over 50 youth houses and activity centers which offer many possibilities to be creative in cultural and digital activities.
“I don’t know how, but let’s find out”, Digital Youth Work in Helsinki – an article in the Diggiloo publication.
The Netherlands
Event Venue P60 and the City of Amstelveen together with Foundation for Future Face (FFF)
An international training session for all partners was held in April 2023. Diring the taining we heard presentation by young people and their coach who are involved in the work of Foundation Future Face. They wanted to point our some principles of their work and activities. It has become clear that a few basic conditions are essential to conduct thorough research into the needs of young people and in this case which digital tools can be used to better reach young people online, activate them and, above all, keep them involved in your organization. In addition to the short video of the training session on this page you can view the presentation slides and the attachments below.
During the first presentation, the importance of communication with young people, the essence of collaborations with the municipality and cultural institutions and the required documentation to work responsibly with young people were discussed. FFF applied approach has ensured that young people have a sense of ownership to work as an important part of the organization on important themes that play a major role in their lives and issues that can contribute to sustainable involvement in their local municipality.
Attachment 1 Strategies for Engaging Youngsters – by Jashin Baroud
Bence Barens explained how sustainable reach and activation among young can be achieved by optimizing the feel and appearance of digital platforms and social media by applying adaptive design and making platforms accessible to all young people, regardless of their reading skills, digital knowledge or any disability. It has become clear that not only online platforms must be adaptive and personal, the organizations behind them must also be able to act adequately to keep up with the trend among young people and thus become future-proof.
Attachment 2 Effective communication – by Bence Barens
Dario Verheijen discussed the approach to substantive content on platforms and specific digital tools that can contribute to increasing and strengthening interaction with the target group. He made it clear that fast and transparent communication, used in various interactive digital tools, can contribute to better informing young people and offering perspective on the objectives.
Attachment 3 Strategies for Engaging Youngsters – by Dario Verheijen
Estonia
Tartu Noorsootöö Keskus – Tartu Youth Work Center with 3 local youth clubs Anne, Lille and Ilmatsalu (age groups 11–19)
Tartu Youth Work Center Podcast Noorteaken – an article in the Diggiloo publication
Tartu 2024 Culture Capital Extended youth group.
Tartu 2024 Extended – the Young People Behind Tartu’s European Capital of Culture Celebrations – an article in the Diggiloo publication
Tartu Youth Work Center has been facilitating the IG @Diggilooyouth Account, where you find more post from the Youth Activities in this project!
Use #diggilooyouth to publish with us!
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Activities include participation to Childrens wellbeing day, Clean-up neighbourhoods, Street Art- Murals, Mobile gaming (Actionbound), International Read Hour activities. The activities and cultural productions will be documented and published in Instagram and Youtube. Tartu youth clubs are looking for international co-operation.
