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Youth that left school early or that resides in rural areas where schools have limited resources, face serious challenges to keep up with the technology progress. ICT skills enhancement and computer courses are not accessible to those that left education early or do not possess the economic means to enrol in professional courses. Disadvantaged youth are insufficiently prepared, more vulnerable and exposed to insecure work, and they get fewer possibility for improvement of their skills. In big cities, digital, economic, social divide is stronger and it is getting wider, and extra EU partners have been selected with these criteria: availability of decent/sufficient training/learning possibilities within or outside formal education.NGOs and youth associations can better balance school education deficits, as they are more agile in adapting to society/target group needs. However, to achieve that goal, they need sufficiently trained staff to support youth in their learning process, understand their specific needs, and possess the appropriate tools and skills to increase their ICT levels. With that aim, they need to be able to develop and integrate development projects and look for practices they can use to create inclusive and digitally literate youth communities. If the youth is empowered to be active part of their democratic process and civic life, all community will benefit from this improved social cohesion. Youth organizations and NGOs lack the technical competency but they already have well-grounded competences in offering nurturing environment to disadvantaged youth and offer program that foster transversal skills with non-formal education methods. The project aims at enhancing the capacities of partners’ educators, increasing their ability to support disadvantaged youth in increasing their digital and ICT skills. The 6 partners come from 6 countries (IT, PT, VN, NP, ZIN, ARG) across 4 continents (EU, Africa, Southeast Asia and South America) offer complementary competences, different scope and organizational structure. However, they all have the same goal: support citizens in having better opportunities for improvement and better lives. They have been selected and invited to represent different areas around the world, to offer a wider picture on the actual real situation in different non-EU countries. They can contribute actively to the project, while learning and developing new skills and competences for their staff, target groups and stakeholders. Our overall objective of the collaboration is linked to the ET 2020 policy objective of “Promoting equity, social cohesion, and active citizenship – project participants will take part in the activities in the programme that address their personal development, focusing especially on building their self-confidence, improving attitude and behaviour, and enhancing basic skills such as communication, team working, etc.”.
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