Almost 1 month ago, the YOULead team met in Porto on 10th January to share the experiences of the piloting of the resources implemented at a local level, as well as the results that were successfully achieved by the YOULead team.
In 2 year-time The YOULead team succeeded to involve young people wishing to express their ideas on the one hand and youth workers willing to deepen their knowledge, skills as and tools, valuing the potential of interactive and online tools and material. to address the new challenges on the other hand. These new methodologies and activities offered within the YOULead project aim to facilitate the understanding of political and social contexts, the ability to recognize disinformation, propaganda, and polarisation.
The young people and the youth workers who took part in the YOULead project come from the country partners, such as Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Austria, but also from countries such as Canada, United States and much more. The variety of backgrounds of people participating in the project is related to the possibility of exploring the resources developed virtually from wherever you are based and this creates active virtual societies.
The resources developed within the YOULead project, especially the training programme targeting young people and a toolkit guide aiming to accompany youth workers in the educational path as well as the E-Learning platform, proved to be effective tools and opportunities to grow as humans and to become awareness of what being active citizens mean.
The Final Conference was such an enriching experience where partner organizations could share the educational path that was built, tested and offered to young people and youth workers, and we hope that the good practices, as well as the resources presented will inspire stakeholders, young people and youth workers in the future.