VolunTube World is the second edition of the VolunTube movement (www.voluntube.org) which pursues the objective of providing organisations working with volunteers more visibility, while at the same time providing young people the opportunity to learn about video-making.Partner organizations will be supported in the implementation of projects using ITC technologies within their organizations and 16 EVS, together with the Communication Officer of each partner will receive training on audiovisual skills before Volunteering two months in one of the partner organisations to direct and edit video content about their activities, beneficiaries and the culture of their country.For the second edition of the project 4 new partners have been involved and a new continent, Latin America, has been added. In addition, through Voluntube World, the intention is to develop training modules for youth organisations and volunteers to learn about video-making and provide them the opportunity to use the voluntube.org website and and YouTube channel to provide visibility to their organisations and volunteer experiences. For this purpose a 12 day dissemination workshop open to anyone wishing to participate will take place in Lastours, France in May 2018.The partners in this project are:P1: IDC, FranceP2: Quinta das Relvas, PortugalP3: Associazione Kora, ItalyP4: N.P.O ANAZITITES THEATROU, GreeceP5: CYA, CambodiaP6: GREAT, IndonesiaP7: Corporación Proyectando Imaginarios, Colombia P8: Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Peru, PeruThe main activities of the project are:- Online kick-off meetings- EVS Volunteer Selection;- Intellectual Output: Development of Training Modules;- Training on communication and video editing for EVS Volunteers and Communication Officers; - Volunteer Preparation Phase in Sending Organisation;- Dissemination Workshops for Training Modules in each partner country- Volunteering Activity about Video-making- Study Visits- Evaluation Seminar- Monitoring and Reporting

In a world where the role of media has been so great that a term ‘mediacracy’ (the rule of media) has been frequently used to describe it, the need for media literacy and media activism of young people and youth NGOs is apparent. That is the main topic of this project.AIMS1: Increasing the capacity of youth organisations/workers in the field of media literacy and media activism and fostering their active participation in society, as well as promoting intraregional, transregional and transcontinental cooperation between 11 youth NGOs from 5 Programme and 5 Partner countries from the Balkans, Northern Europe and Latin America.2: Strengthening media promotion of youth policy and democratic values in the partner countries and on Europe–Latin America level.3: Create informational/media hub between Europe and LA in the field of youth policy that will improve the connections between these distant parts of the world.MAIN OBJECTIVES1. Strengthening human and IT resources of 11 youth NGOs in the field of media literacy and media activism;2. Creating multilingual OER on media literacy and media activism;3. Techically, visually and contentually improving the transnational e-Magazine for youth policy and democracy and elevate it to the transcontinental level; 4. Establishing strong transcontinental cooperation among partner NGOs.ACTIVITIES1. Training course in media literacy and media activism The goal of the TC is to provide media literacy/activism skills for 33 youth workers from 11 partner NGOs. Participants will develop: technical competences, critical skills (understanding, interpreting and critical evaluation of media content) and practical skills (creating media contents; developing and using ICT tools for activities through the media). They will learn to create media content and a blog. Each partner organization will have its own blog with texts on youth policy and combating anti-democratic manifestations by the end of the TC. The participants will also learn to use social networks as vehicles for the media activism.Host: CDERLocation: Belgrade (Serbia)Duration: 18th-27th October, 2019Working language: English2. Creating educative content (OER):- advanced Moodle course on media literacy;- an Moodle course Media Skills for Engaged Youth.3. Improving (technically, visually, conceptually, by involving new contributors) a transnational e-Magazine for youth policy and democracy and elevate it to transcontinental level as a media in which young people and youth workers from Europe and LA jointly publish their contributions. The e-Magazine becomes a unique place that informs the youth and wider public on youth policy, youth activism and democracy in both Europe and Latin America.PARTNERS: 11 youth NGOs from Europe and Latin America.PROJECT LEADER: CDER (RS)PROJECT DURATION: 14 months: 01/08/2019–30/09/2020The project capitalizes and additionally improves the results of the MEDIActive Youth project, implemented in 2015/16.