Enhancing the youth worker’s skills by making them understand how to think about a mobile application and how to develop and elaborate it. This was the main aim of the project WAPPY – Whats’s App Youth! workshop that took place on the 29th and 30th of March in Palermo.
During the Local consultation’s workshops, youth workers and young people came up with concrete and creative ideas of APPs.
The first day of the workshop gave the youth workers and young people the possibility to develop an idea to an App which, according to them, would help and support them as youth workers. After an introduction of the expert on ICT, and an interactive Quiz, the participants has been split into 3 groups according to their proposals and ideas. Thus, three groups have started to work together on the first draft development of a prototype of an APP.
The second day of the workshop, the groups have finalized their APP and have presented it to the other.
The three APP ideas that came out of the workshop were:
- NeedYou, where the idea is to match people’s donations with the real needs of the local centres via a system of awards;
- BienvenueHere, the idea is to give practical information to foreign students/volunteers that arrive in a new city;
- FoodTopia, a social App that gather people to meet and cook together traditional food according to their country and their wishes.
The APP ideas will further be integrated in the Toolkit for Youth workers, translated in all partners language.
WAPPY! is a project co-funded by Erasmus+ programme with the goal of training young people and youth workers in entrepreneurship through ICT-Mobile Application based mechanisms and non-formal methodologies.
The project’s partnership groups five organisations from different Countries:
- Pistes-Solidaires (France) – coordinator;
- Semper Avanti Stowarzyszenie (Poland);
- YSDA Inc. – Youth for Sustainable Development Assembly Inc. (Philippines);
- FSL India – Field Services and intercultural Learning India (India);
- CESIE (Italy).
For further information about the project, please contact Caroline Dickinson.
