Published by Katie Lips May 13th, 2007
in Youth Engagement and Projects.
The Connect Youth website is a great place to start researching European projects; Connect Youth is the UK national agency for the Youth in Action Programme.
“Along with the European Commission, our aim is to help young people discover Europe. On our site you will find information about Youth Exchanges and Youth Initiatives; European Voluntary Service, Youth in the World and Youth Support Systems.”
As well as information on all the various Connect Youth programmes, there is a useful database you can use to search for potential project partners.
(Image: http://www.connectyouthinternational.com/)
I first heard about Katie Lips and Kisky Netmedia at a Merseyside Managers ICT User Group which took place in the Holly Oaks student bar at the Lime Pictures studios in
Liverpool November 2006. At the time I was keen to set up a project involving ICT and Youth Engagement. My thinking at the time was based on trying to understand how my own children used the internet whilst at school and at home. Further I attended a concert with my kids where only 500 people turned up in the audience instead of the 900 expected. It transpired that the event was not advertised on the net. The organisers did not use the technology available to engage with the youth and look what happened.
I invited Katie to a meeting at Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service HQ and we were joined by MF&RS Youth Engagement Manger Emma Dodd. The subject was to discuss the possibility of working together on a Youth Engagement project using dynamic technical innovation as the channel of engagement and in that meeting the ‘OurOpenSpace’ project was conceived.
