European Youth and Social Media is a Youth Exchange Project working with 50 young people and leaders from Germany, Ireland, Estonia and the UK.

The project and all participants will be based in Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland for the 8 day duration of the project. Participants will arrive on the 23^rdJuly and depart on the 30^th July 2010.

About the project

The project focuses on getting young people involved in influencing policy around internet governance. The exchange will consist of a mixture of educational workshops, outdoor education and a plenary session incorporating the involvement of political representatives.

The young people from across Europe will participate in a number of media/journalistic workshops to capture thoughts and opinions on internet issues such as:

• file sharing,
• identity theft, and
• cyberbullying

Throughout the event young people will keep an audio and video record to allow them to create podcasts and videos to highlight the issues they have discussed.

Why hold the workshop?

The HUWY project has identified that young people from the participating countries are active internet users who are interested in:

• the future development of the Internet, and
• how they can possibly influence those developments.

The week long event will allow young people interested in these issues to discuss the issues with other interested young people from around Europe.

We are extremely lucky to have the young people from Jugendpresse present throughout the week long event. Jugendpresse will have a significant role, acting as peer facilitators during the workshop, to instruct other participants in the media/journalism skills and effectively facilitate the workshops.

More information

For more information about the European Youth and Social Media event contact Gareth Gibson at Donegal Youth Services +353 (0)74 912 9630 ]]> http://www.huwy.eu/ie/news-blog/2010/07/06/european-youth-and-social-media-event-in-letterkenny/feed/ 0 http://www.huwy.eu/ie/news-blog/2010/06/23/what-makes-a-successful-engagement-project-for-young-people/ http://www.huwy.eu/ie/news-blog/2010/06/23/what-makes-a-successful-engagement-project-for-young-people/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:59:01 +0000 admin http://www.huwy.eu/ie/?p=734 We want to know about your ideas of successful engagement and participation processes –i.e. projects that aim to get people’s opinions/ help people to influence decisions/consult people.

To find this out, we've created 3 questionnaires -one for young people, one for youth workers and one for policy-makers.

It would be really great if you could follow the links below and fill in these short questionnaires (Easy: 8 questions, multiple choice)

• Young people
• Youth workers
• Policy-makers
• More about the HUWY project

Young people

This questionnaire is to help us find out about the kind of things that happen in engagement projects which would make you feel that the project was a success and that your involvement achieved something. We want to find out what is more or less important to you.

After our current engagement project (HUWY) has been running for a bit, we can then use this information to decide if it’s successful on your terms.

Questionnaire for young people >>

Youth workers

We want to know about your ideas of successful engagement and participation processes –i.e. projects that aim to get people’s opinions/ help people influence decisions/consult people. It is likely that you have worked with young people on many similar projects and listened to their reactions afterwards and this is the information that we are looking for.

This questionnaire is to help us find out about the kind of things that happen in engagement projects which (in your experience) would make young people say that the project was a success and that their involvement achieved something. We want to find out what is more or less important to young people in this context.

After our current engagement project (HUWY) has been running for a bit, we can then use this information to decide if it’s successful on young people’s terms.

Questionnaire for youth workers >>

Policy-makers

We want to know about your ideas of successful engagement and participation processes –i.e. projects that aim to get people’s opinions/ help people influence decisions/consult people. We are particularly concerned with processes which aim to get input from young people.

This questionnaire is to help us find out about the kind of things that happen in engagement projects which (in your experience) would make policy-makers feel that the project was a success and that their involvement achieved something. We want to find out what is more or less important to you in this context.

After the HUWY project has been running for a bit, we can then use this list to decide if it’s successful on both policy-makers’ and young people’s terms.

Questionnaire for policy-makers >>

More about the HUWY project

HUWY believe that young people are valuable expert stakeholders in current Internet issues like

• cyberbullying, child abuse and child safety,
• freedom of speech and censorship,
• privacy and phishing, security, identity, hacking, e-commerce,
• file-sharing and copyright.

The HUWY project aims to get young people talking about policies and laws which affect the Internet and channel their ideas to governments and parliaments, national and EU using Hub websites. HUWY wants to achieve this through a distributed discussion:

• Young people explore and discuss the themes in their own (online) spaces
• We provide interesting material to support the discussions on Hub websites
• Young people post their ideas on the Hub websites.
• We work with policy-makers to help them find ideas that are relevant to their work.
• Policy-makers use young peoples’ ideas and provide feedback by posting comments on the Hubs

More Information:

Further details are available at: http://www.e-consultation.org/guide/index.php/HuWY_job

or by contacting Subhajit Basu by e-mail: s.basu@qub.ac.uk

To apply, start from: http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QUBJobVacancies/JobDetails/?vac_no=09/100858&ref=09/100858