🇮🇹🎥 Erasmus+ Training Course in Italy 🇮🇹 Digital Storytelling and Media Literacy for Youth Engagement Empowering Youth Workers Through Ethical Narratives and Creative Media

🌍 Project Overview
Digital Storytelling and Media Literacy for Youth Engagement is an Erasmus+ Training Course taking place in Rome, Italy, and hosted by Copernicus Berlin e.V. The training empowers youth workers to engage young people through storytelling and digital storytelling using accessible media tools. Participants explore how stories can amplify underrepresented voices, strengthen critical thinking, and support ethical, respectful and inclusive youth engagement in digital spaces. By the end of the course, participants leave with publish-ready stories and a practical toolkit to run local workshops.

📌 Location
🇮🇹 Rome, Italy

🧩 Main Learning Content and Activities
🎥 Storytelling fundamentals including story structures and narrative design
🎙️ Interviewing techniques and ethical consent practices
📱 Creation of short digital formats such as reels, photo stories and podcasts
🛡️ Ethical content creation focusing on privacy, safeguarding and representation
🧠 Media literacy skills to counter misinformation, recognise bias and manipulation
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Story circles, scripting labs, phone-based production and editing clinics
🔁 Peer review, reflection and collaborative learning processes

🎯 Objectives of the Training
🎯 Build skills in storytelling, interviewing and audience engagement
🎯 Strengthen ethical and responsible digital content creation
🎯 Enhance media literacy and critical thinking in youth work
🎯 Enable participants to design and deliver local digital storytelling workshops
🎯 Support inclusive narratives that amplify diverse youth voices

📦 Outputs and Results
📂 Personal digital story portfolio
📘 Facilitation guide for youth storytelling labs
📄 Consent and safeguarding templates
📣 Dissemination and outreach plan for local use

👤 Participant Profile
🧑 Youth workers and youth leaders
📱 Interested in digital storytelling, media literacy and youth engagement
🌍 Motivated to support inclusive narratives and ethical online spaces
🤝 Ready to apply creative methodologies in local youth work contexts

🗓️ Activity Dates
9 February 2026 – 17 February 2026

📅 Application Deadline
01.02.2026

🗣️ Working Language
English

🏡 Accommodation, Food and Travel
🏠 Accommodation covered in shared apartments
🍳 €80 food allowance per participant to cook together
✈️ Travel costs reimbursed subject to prior confirmation by the coordinator
🌱 Green travel options such as train, bus or carpooling are encouraged
🧳 Arrival up to 2 days earlier or departure up to 2 days later possible at own expense

🤝 Partners
Copernicus Berlin e.V. 🇩🇪
International Connection 🇧🇬
Pangaea Youth Network 🇩🇰
Kreatív Ifjúsági Akadémia Magyarország 🇭🇺
Terra Dulcis 🇮🇹
Youth Choose 🇷🇴

🔗 Application Link
https://campus.copernicusberlin.org/event/public/Digital_Storytelling_2026

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