Let's talk Europe - Building Sonic Bridges
▶Summary
The concrete objective was to bring together youth workers and to create a podcast as a useful tool to reflect on current topics and issues as defined by the 11 European Youth Goals. The creatio...
▶Objectives
The concrete objective was to bring together youth workers and to create a podcast as a useful tool to reflect on current topics and issues as defined by the 11 European Youth Goals. The creation of the podcast itself was meant to be an invauable informal learning opportunity, far away from being “teacher-like” and the best way to engage participants from different backgrounds. Through the different stages of the podcast implementation, participants have learnt to be aware of the impact of their opinions when shared, how to deal with the most important technical aspects of recording a podcast and to promote such a podcast through social media. Furthermore, the project represented a valuable opportunity to boost competence in foreign languages, with a significant improvement in cross-cultural communication skills for all the participants.
▶Activities
The project was carried out in the framework of an international exchange between participants coming from Germany and Italy. It included seminars and workshops in which topics inspired by the 11 European Youth Goals were discussed: during such activities, participants had the possibility to share their experience and opinions on the matters, while learning from the others' experience and enrich their level of awareness on important current issues. The goal of such activities was to ultimately contribute to the content planning of every podcast's episode to the extent that most of the activities would naturally culminate in the recording of an episode by 2 or more participants. The abovementiond workshops and seminars, coordinated and structured by the group leaders, took place after a training course, in which the basics of podcast recording had been taught. environmental awareness and its promotion
▶Impact
The result was the creation and publication of a podcast series named "Sonic Bridges - EU Talks", currently comprising 5 episodes and a trailer, along with the social media content, which have been shared on the social media pages regarded the podcast itself.