Erasmus+ KA220-YOU Project - EDI-FORJUV

Project Title: Digital Empowerment for Inclusion: Strengthening Skills and Capacities in Vulnerable Youth (EDI-FORJUV)
Project Duration: 24 months (Start Date: 01/09/2024; End Date: 31/08/2026)

The project is motivated by the commitment to digital inclusion, especially for vulnerable youth, and aligns with the EU’s Digital Education Action Plan.
Recognizes the need to address the digital gap and social inequalities through digital education, focusing on youth from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The project highlights that vulnerable youth often use technology primarily for entertainment, indicating limited digital skills and the need for a more diverse and educational approach.
Project aims to address the need for improving digital skills among vulnerable youth in Spain, Italy, Romania, Greece, and Bulgaria where significant percentages of the target group have digital skills below the basic level.
“According to data from Eurostat and the European Commission, young people considered to be in vulnerable situations (young people without employment, education or training, from rural areas, from ethnic minorities, refugees, migrants, at risk of poverty) have greater difficulties in developing basic digital skills.”

Overall Objective: “To promote social inclusion and improve employment and education opportunities for young people with fewer opportunities in the European Union, through the development and improvement of their digital skills.”
Specific Objectives: Train 25 youth workers in digital skills to tutor vulnerable youth, Improve the digital skills of 100 vulnerable youth from 5 EU countries, Increase the capacity of partner organizations to offer quality digital training services to vulnerable groups.

Primary Target Group: Young people in vulnerable situations, including: Unemployed youth, NEETs (Not in Education, Employment, or Training), Migrants and refugees, People of Roma ethnicity, Those with low or no income.
Secondary Target Group: Youth workers, who will benefit from skills development. The project aims to impact a larger collective within each group, beyond the direct participants.

Erasmus+ KA220-YOU Project – EDI-FORJUV