LETTra – Fostering literacy in educational technologies in youth work

The entire youth work sector was affected by different challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic. For education providers, it was necessary to make their services digitally available to enable youth workers to continue their education and training. While some providers lacked the necessary knowledge to create digital learning spaces, some also took this as an opportunity to foster digitalisation skills within the organization. Knowledge built in these organizations was preserved and made available for other educators in the EU project LETTra.

LETTra strengthened digitally enhanced education for youth workers – by online activities, blended learning settings and hybrid arrangements in youth work education and training. We gathered educational practice examples from 5 youth work organizations in both Austria and Greece already working with digital learning tools. The collected material was analyzed and good practice identified. Based on these findings, a tool and didactics manual was developed and tested in a pilot workshop with trainers in youth work in both countries. The resulting course material was made available to other youth work trainers in online repositories.
The project results included knowledge and experience from different areas of youth work, different organizations and individual trainers. Not only did this increase the quality of youth work by increasing the quality of youth work training, but also highlighted innovative learning settings in the organizations’ training programmes. By publishing good practice to an audience beyond youth work, we showed the quality of youth work training and contributed to the recognition of youth work and youth workers’ competencies in particular.

LETTra was awarded the „Good Practice“ label by the Austrian National Agency.