"Promoting Active Citizenship in Youth through the use of the ""Social Hackathon"" approach"

ongoing

"The Hacktive Youth project aims at promoting Active Citizenship in Youth through the use of the ""Social Hackathon"" approach. The project will apply this approach as a non-formal learning strategy since it allows young people to be the center of their training process, contributing to the development of transversal skills, such as knowledge skills, practical skills and soft skills. In the Hacktive Youth Project work program, the following activities will be implemented, in addition to the project coordination and evaluation (WP1) and the dissemination and sustainability (WP6): - Development of methodology and creation of training materials (WP2): Documentary and Field Research, Needs Analysis, Good Practices Manual, Social Hackathon Methodology. - Training of the Youth Workers (WP3): organization of 1 e-learning course; 2 Capacity Building Meetings in Tunisia and Morocco and 1 InterLab platform for Youth Workers. - Community Social Hackathons (WP4): organization of a. 5 Local Workshops with young people from the local communities about active citizenship and the Social Hackathon model and b. 1 Community Social Hackathon in each country. - Organization of the 1st International Social Hackathon in Egypt (WP5). To this event will participate both youth workers and young people (5 per each country) from the 8 partners. The project has 3 main target groups: 1. Youth Workers, involved in the field of active citizenship and non-formal education 2. Underrepresented young people, from vulnerable contexts and fewer opportunities 3. Organizations involved in youth work Consortium Partners from 4 European countries and 4 from South-Mediterranean countries. To the project will participate: - 48 youth workers (6 from each country) - 400 young people (of which at least 220 with fewer opportunities) - 400 people among community members, stakeholders and professionals"