Digital Transformer Days 2022 On 17 and 18 May 2022, the specialist and funding agencies for international youth work held their second international BarCamp. 53 participants from Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Poland, Greece and Ghana, three speakers from the US, Argentina and the Czech Republic and ten interpreters plus one host spent two days on the DINA.international platform where they enjoyed the participatory programme of Digital Transformer Days 2022. Their common objective: to discuss and explore the digital tools and methods, hybrid settings, good practices, innovative ideas and challenges associated with digital international youth work. Digital Transformer Days, an international BarCamp, is the core element of the Internationale Jugendarbeit.digital (IJA.digital) project and is organised by IJAB in partnership with the following specialist and funding agencies for international youth work: ConAct, the Coordination Center for German-Israeli Youth Exchange; the Franco-German Youth Office; the Polish-German Youth Office; the German-Turkish Youth Bridge; the Foundation for German-Russian Youth Exchange; and Tandem – the Czech-German Youth Exchange Coordination Centre. IJA.digital is designed to identify the opportunities and challenges, along with the success factors of digital and hybrid projects, of digital transformation and use the resulting insights to develop the international youth work field further. The integration of international partners and international developments is at the heart of IJA.digital – which is why the first iteration of Digital Transformer Days took place already back in 2021. In 2020, the specialist and funding agencies set up a working group on digital cooperation that has since met regularly to discuss developments and needs in the field of digital international youth work. Given the strong interest in the subject from international partners, and building on the foundation established at the first international (English-speaking) BarCamp in June 2021, the working group quickly agreed to hold a Digital Transformer Days event in 2022, too – this time in several languages and on the DINA.international digital platform, which would offer a multitude of opportunities to meet, talk, build networks and interact. IJAB’s Language Unit coordinated the provision of language interpretation. The host of Digital Transformer Days 2022 was Sabrina Apitz, a multi-talented digital youth work specialist who is fully at home in the digital space and was hence ideally placed to promote a positive mindset when it comes to digital transformation in international youth work. A colourful, diverse and attractive addition to the event were the graphic recordings created by Coline Robin (France) over the course of the two days. She condensed and visualised the key outcomes of the discussions and activities of DTD22 on behalf of the participants. So what happened at Digital Transformer Days 2022? Let’s take a look.
Simulation games for youth exchanges, the role of open-source software in society, videodance storytelling – the range of themes discussed by the participants during the Digital Transformer Days 2022 was inspiring as well as groundbreaking.
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