Digital Transformation in the Youth Sector
Experience of Visegrad countries
In this ever-growing digital age, demand for distant learning started to increase rapidly. However, the COVID-19 outbreak proved that many countries still lack online educational resources in the digitized world. Therefore, digital transformation in the educational sector is a necessary means of survival as this new digital world requires educators to adapt and adopt digital technologies, methodologies, and mindsets. Most of the youth organizations in Azerbaijan, as well as V4 countries and other countries in Eastern Partnership, do not have enough capacity and online resources to equip their members with demanded skills and knowledge remotely.
The project is aimed at partnering with experienced youth organizations of V4 countries to improve the capacity of Azerbaijani youth organizations by using digital tools. Digital transformation is a physical and philosophical change designed to meet the ever-growing demands of modern youth and creating a learning environment where everything connects. The prepared online tools/materials will be stored in a digital platform both in English and Azerbaijani and make sure that youth workers of Azerbaijan and other Eastern Partnership countries can benefit from them.
Partners
Erasmus Student Network Azerbaijan
Fundacja Instytut Badań i Innowacji w Edukacji
ICM Jindřichův Hradec z.s.
YouthFully Yours SK
Online meetings between trainers and youth workers
Training of Trainers
Online Training Portal
Output
An Online Training Portal will be developed with the help of trainers from Azerbaijan and V4 countries. The portal will contain the necessary materials for online training such as video lectures, study materials, case studies, and assesment tools. Our main goal is to create a digitial platform that youth and youth workers can get trained by using it which will be accessible by anyone despite of location, abilities, background etc.
Events
Online meetings between trainers and youth workers
2 online pre-session will be held between all trainers under the supervision of 2 experts for understanding the capacity of Azerbaijani trainers. Two experts will research how to design the training for achieving the most effective and efficient outcome during this process.
Training of Trainers
Training for 24 local trainers from Azerbaijan will be organized by 8 trainers from the 4 Visegrad countries. The trainings will start online then followed by intensive 5 days physical training in Baku. The main purpose of this training is to prepare the local trainers of Azerbaijan to conduct online courses and transfer knowledge from V4 countries; expertise.
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.