About the project

“VIPvalues: ICT skills for peace projects“, co- founded by the European Commission under the Erasmus + Program. Fundación Cibervoluntarios coordinates this initiative alongside with partners from Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Spain and Italy. The main objective of VipValues is to offer training contents and methods that use ICT for the promotion of Peace and the inclusion of young people in situations of disadvantage, especially focused on Migrants and Refugees. VIPvalues+ will allow young people to acquire skills and tools to develop projects aimed at fostering peace and fighting social and digital exclusion.

With this project the aim is to exchange good practices and the tangible results obtained in the previous project, in order to create an ICT skills for peace projects platform with three main lines of action:

Training contents and specific Methodologies using ICTs for the promotion of Peace and the inclusion of young people in situations of disadvantage

Raise awareness on the the SDGs, specifically the 16th Sustainable Development Goal of the Agenda 2030, “Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions”

Inclusion of projects created through the training materials, This section will showcase selected projects created by the participants receiving the training in each country

The consortium is made up of 6 organizations from Spain, Cyprus, Italy, Belgium and Austria with experience in working with young people and in developing projects focused on training and the creation of open educational resources to achieve the promotion of a culture of peace and the goals of the Agenda 2030. Fundación Cibervoluntarios, in Spain, is the coordinator of the project and brings the experience of the previous European project and the promotion of Peace Values through ICTs. The other partners are Fundación Culture of Peace, Seal Cyprus, CONNEX-EU, Associazione Coopisa and Vienna Association of Education Volunteers (VAEV).

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VIPvalues+ main goals

  • To raise awareness on the problems and issues that young migrants and refugees, and how ICTs can help to solve them.
  • To involve Youth in the Sustainable Development Goals' achievement, through the acquisition of skills and competencies in social innovation processes linked with social entrepreneurship.
  • To generate communication networks and support for the achievement of social projects.
  • To train and promote horizontal and proactive youth participation, fostering the critical thinking.

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS OF THE PROJECT

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT 1

METHODOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND FRAMEWORK FOR THE CREATION OF THE LEARNING PLATFORM M2-M6

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT 2

DIGITAL LEARNING PLATFORM OF ICT SKILLS FOR PEACE PROJECTS M3-M23

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT 3

TRAINING GUIDE ON THE USE OF THE E-LEARNING PLATFORM M8-M12

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT 4

USABILITY REPORT BASED ON LOCAL TRAINING ACTIVITIES M12-M21