"We Radio" is a project on low-budget Web radio as a means of youth participation, which provides two distinct phases of the project; The first phase is made by a training course to be held in Modica (Italy) from 10th to 19th October 2017; the second phase includes a network project that aims at providing a sustainable network of youth organizations. This activity will take place in Modica (Italy) february 12 to 18, 2018. The project involves youth organizations from Italy, Greece Turkey, Armenia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Spain, Romania and Lithuania.
The first phase concerns the creation of participatory broadcast that encourage youth participation, new forms of participation and encourage youth entrepreneurship in the field of web-radio productions. Through this stage, organisations and their youth workers will be able to help young people to create its own "brand" business that is not mediated by the "world" of adults, but absolutely free of editorial lines, special interests and other impositions, getting able to influence society and make "critical mass", involving young people who are often subject to social exclusion. This phase also aims to provide to participants technical knowledge that will enable each of them to create a web radio and manage it in all its components, making them more autonomous and independent. This phase involves 22 young people and youth workers.
The second phase will establish a network of organizations designed to support the activities of web radio created in the first phase, to ensure visibility, to adopt common radio programs and establish the mission, vision and guiding principles of the network. Great importance will be given to the possibility of producing other initiatives under Erasmus Plus, with the aim of exploiting the methodologies from this project in other design areas. This phase involves the participation of 22 youth workers and young people from the Countries involved.
The project will involve partner organizations, not only during the dates of activities, but also in the phase in between of the training course and the network project; in fact exploiting the methods and technical knowledge, young people with the help of sending organizations, will immediately begin broadcasting radio programs, experimenting new forms of entertainment and attract the curiosity of their communities.
The project objectives will be achieved through creative workshops, simulated broadcast, practical workshops, discussions on young people's participation and group activities that enable young people and professionals, to encourage participation in the social life of their community.
The methodology to be applied, will be for a very large part of non-formal education, especially linked to the "learning by doing"guidelines and group activities that will help the participants to work in contact with different cultural backgrounds.
