Social and Audiovisual Media to Empower Youth NGOs

Social and Audiovisual Media to Empower Youth NGOs aims to master the use of the new media for youth work and for entrepreneurs in the service of promotion programs and business, we believe that we will achieve this by analyzing, accessing and creating social and audiovisual medias, through including all format of audiovisual such as TV, cinema, photo or a video communication and social media in addition through the social media basically the web-communication, Objectives: •To use media literacy and new media as a powerful tool in entrepreneurs world; •To practice working with media in group context; •To use media for process-based youth projects and organizations; •To foster a holistic approach for entrepreneurs and organizations, which combines working with the prospect customers/follower’s social, physical, emotional and spiritual intelligences •To broaden youth workers’ experience of different kinds of media form and content to encourage innovation & creativity •To develop specific skills in new media (creating) Outcomes: •We will learn effective, powerful methods for using media in business and organizations; •We will participate in processes of media making in teams; •We will have the chance to express personal-universal messages with videos and digital photography; •We will have an overview of what is media literacy and how it can be useful for working with youth in any context; •Participants learn to analyze popular media and cultural messages as part of their media literacy critiques and work on developing positive, affirming alternatives. Methodologies: This seminar is based on the method of learning by doing, different non-formal learning techniques will be used, among them: games, simulations, theoretical input followed by active experiences and reflection, small group work, individual goal setting, sharing of experiences in the large group.