Journalism as a Tool for Employment!
Gençlik hareketliliği · Young Initiative (İrlanda) koordinatörlüğünde; GEZİDER ortak kurum olarak yer aldı.
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“Journalism as a Tool for Employment!” is a new innovative KA1 Erasmus+ Youth exchange for youth workers, volunteers and youth leaders.
It brought together 40 participants from 5 different countries to work together on the main topics: Journalism and non-formal education in relation to the problem of youth unemployment.
The idea of the exchange was driven by the fact that young people with fewer opportunities (and especially those who left their studies at an early age) often ln the necessary competences and experiences in order to enter or stay in the labor market. At the same time, non-formal learning which takes place within the framework of youth projects (in the Erasmus+ programme and beyond) provides very valuable learning experiences for young people, e.g. communication and the ability to work in teams, developing the habit of staying involved in an activity on a regular basis or at least for some time, taking responsibility etc.). The project wanted to bring the participants on a journey of non-experienced journalists and provided them tools and inputs which might help them to be more aware of themselves, their skills and their competences.
The project took place in Dublin from the 04/11/2017 until the 12.11 .2017 and involved 40 participants from 5 different countries (Ireland, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Turkey).
During the project, the participants experienced through non-formal education methods and discussion with bloggers and journalist how to improve their storytelling, photo, video skills and to find the essence of a subject, place or a character through interviews, reportages, photo-reportages, videos and blogging posts.
With these skills developed, the participants will be able to start their own blogs or write for the NGOs magazine or even work for a media company.
The main goal was to empower the youngsters to explore an area and their inhabitants through journalism technique, how to choose the subject, what angles of the story are better in order to catch the attention of the readers and visitors of their owned online channels. The participants were engaged in this journey with several methods such as self discovering (storytelling), integrative methods (setting strategies for the articles, team-building exercises), learning through individual experiences (discussing with journalists, taking interviews and interacting with the citizens), creativity methods (blogging web-design, magazines and brochures, but also photo-reportage).
