Against a backdrop of rising inequality, cutbacks in public services, and marginalisation (and/or radicalization) of disadvantaged young people, the project will make a significant contribution to the EU’s Youth Agenda of active, engaged, connected and empowered young people. Social innovation empowers young people to shape the world around them. Young social innovators develop key competences such as creativity, problem solving, empathy and communication which they apply in ways that develops their active citizenship and connection to their local community. Digital technology can take social innovation to the next level: “Digital technologies pervade every part of our lives. We need to understand how they work in order to make the world work better. But we risk another generation growing up as passive digital consumers rather than confident digital makers.” (Young Digital Makers, 2015, NESTA) However, currently our youth organizations are poorly equipped to engage young people in digital social innovation.In response, Young Digital Social Innovators aims to empower young people to become confident social innovators making the most of digital technology available to them. To do so, we will modernise youth work curricula and practice so that digital social innovation (DSI) can be taught to a high standard across a wide range of youth-serving organisations. Hence our project involves the following stages and outputs: i)Increase awareness, understanding and commitment to YDSI in the youth sector by evidencing its contribution to empowerment, integration and competence development via the development and dissemination of an “All-you-need-to-know” Guide to Digital Social Innovation for Young People (IO1).ii)Strengthen the capacity of youth-serving organisations to teach YDSI by boosting educators’ knowledge and providing easy-to-use tools. The Young Digital Social Innovators’ Toolkit (IO2) will guide youth educators through useful tools/apps for social innovation, highlighting their specific strengths and appropriate pedagogic strategies. The Young Digital Social Innovators’ Framework & OERs (IO3) will provide an integrated set of resources for introducing DSI activities into youth programmes in the short term.iii)Maximizing the number of young people learning and carrying out YDSI projects by sharing our model via an online course and interactive platform (IO4).Within the project lifespan, at least 500 youth educators, organisations and stakeholders will use the IOs, gain knowledge of emerging models of Digital Social Innovation (DSI), develop new skills, and be more equipped to integrate YDSI into non-formal youth programmes. At least 80 youth organisations will use the OERs to facilitate YDSI skills development and project implementation with at least 600 young people, while at least 2,500 young people will access the online course and platform, strengthening their YDSI skillset and leading to hundreds of innovative community projects. As a result of the project, youth educators and youth-serving organisations will become more digitally proficient organisations who are more responsive to the needs of young people in the 21st century. At stakeholder level, the project will generate attitudinal change, as YDSI is understood to be a valuable part of youth development and not a niche field, and a policy change as stakeholders disseminate and support the integration of YDSI to the youth-serving organisations they work with.Thanks to the improvement in the relevance and quality of learning opportunities, young people, especially those facing disadvantage, will strengthen their key competences and move beyond digital literacy into digital making and the applied use of technology. Over time, participating young people will be more engaged, connected and empowered: both improving their personal and professional development, they will make a greater positive contribution to society around them.

Little YETI (youth eco-tourism initiative) aims to support young people in their commitment to share and value Europe in a more sustainable and civic-minded way than before the COVID crisis:These young people carry out their own tourism projects to promote European heritage, by proposing :- an inclusive added value, while respecting the social and economic environment in which their initiatives are implemented- citizen engagement and activism affirmed through strong communication between young people, strengthening their European citizenship - high environmental added value by encouraging environmentally friendly economic development For 3 years, Little YETI offers1/ the identification of initiatives of young Europeans in the field of ecotourism (20) in Southern Europe, Balkans, Western Europe, Scandinavia. A digital guide of good practices is produced through reports constructed by young people. It proposes portraits, reports, presentation of sites, eco-tourist dimension of the projects and their economic model.2 /Based on an online consultation and the good practice guide, the partners are building a toolbox to support young people's initiatives. It proposes tools in terms of- Knowledge of the environment, and measuring the impact of recreational activities on the environment- Knowledge of the challenges of enhancing intangible heritage and the inclusion of inhabitants in the tourist offer- Technical tools for economic odre and adapted economic models- Tools for measuring indicators related to the environmental and sustainable dimension of projects- Use of digital tools to promote initiatives and knowledge of communication networksThis toolkit is accessible to young people, and to adults who support the approaches of these young people, actors of youth. They are people working in the sectors of tourism, environment, creative industries and cultural heritage enhancement, and in the support to entrepreneurship and the creation of activity for young people.3 / Training programme for youth actors in the eco-tourism sector. The partners mobilise youth actors and experts in the field of tourism and environment (IR and Desfimed), Valorisation of intangible heritage (FR/ Laba), Support for youth initiative and entrepreneurship (MT, RO, SE).They are building 4 online training programmes, which they are experimenting during 2 training sessions (C).4/ The partners carry out 5 dissemination events highlighting 5 tourist routes carried out on their territory. During these events, they present the productions made during the project to political decision-makers, young people, inhabitants, youth actors, tourism and environment professionals. They then organise five debates bringing together young people, youth actors and political decision-makers and collect the exchanges developed during these debates, which they record in their communication tools.Little YETI brings together 6 complementary partners (tourism, environment, European cultural heritage and youth) and geographically spread throughout Europe.YETI becomes a tool for mediation between young people and European policy makers, by proposing new citizen models of valorisation of European heritage and by proposing models of public actions based on successful initiatives of young European citizens. YETI mobilises 180 youth actors, who produce tools that will be consulted by 18,000 people (young people and youth actors) at the end of the project.

<< Objectives >>We aim to( 1)build the knowledge base (2)substantiate the process with relevant documentation (3)develop the skills of young actors across Europe and (4) increase the organisational capacity of youth organisations for getting involved with and driving the green transition, in a fully-fledged learning cycle that will be starting off from raising awareness with the underpinning ideas that the transition process is new and challenging and that embedding green practices requires broad dialogue<< Implementation >>An awareness campaign for the youth sector, in order to contribute to both knowledge sharing, process underpinning and creativity stimulation. The communication waves will be driven by (1)an awareness guide (2) a youth ideas contest; (3)a foresight toolkit (4) a Blueprint for sustainable development (5) a digital hub (6) user testing and consultation tool We will organize a 2 LTT activities to engage relevant stakeholders with our resources and 5 ME to showcase OER to over 140 stakeholders,<< Results >>At least 600 young people, youth educators, organisations and stakeholders will use our OER, to gain knowledge and be more equipped to integrate our Youth-fit-for-55 model into their practice. More than 70 youth educators will facilitate our Youth-fit-fot-55 skills development and project implementation with at least 250 young people, while more than 2000 young people will access our resources platform and integrate our practice so that hundreds of innovative community projects will be developed