Digital Champions for Community Success

Digital Champions for Community Success aims to create a Training Package for adult educators, trainers and carers who work with vulnerable adults in different communities.
The Training Package has three main aims:
1. To be a self-learning tool for adult trainers and carers on how to design and implement effective strategies for enhancing the basic skills of vulnerable adults.
2. To develop adult educators’ competences to deal with diverse groups of learners, making use of new technologies and teaching.
3. To embrace a new methodology of fostering “Digital Champions” when adult learners become support champions in their own communities.
The project partners have developed 3 comprehensive training modules:
Module 1 (Digital Skills) presents in 6 thematic groups various digital skills necessary to navigate modern life. They are structured by levels of ability, taking into account corresponding literacy, numeracy and transferable skills.
Module 2 (How to be a Digital Champion) focuses on the competences that an educator / trainer / coach / facilitator of vulnerable adults should have or acquire in order to improve their practice of working with vulnerable adults. There is also a list of online tools which can be used for the support sessions with vulnerable adults.
Module 3 (How to become a Digital Champion) describes the best practice when identifying suitable members of a community to become digital champions. It provides an insight into motivational and support strategies for the digital champions.
The project is for Trainers and Carers of vulnerable adults facing obstacles such as: disabilities and/or learning difficulties, vulnerable adults with social obstacles: low-skilled migrants, long-term unemployed, elderly in care. Trainers and carers will be able to boost the impact of their work with the target communities and foster digital champions, who will work within their communities to support their peers.

Context: In an age of digitalisation of almost every aspect of our everyday lives, vulnerable adults are even more isolated and either dependent on external help or just excluded from participation in society. Of course, the picture is not entirely catastrophic, there are provisions to assist vulnerable adults, but they are far from adequate
Often the approach is to solve their immediate needs, instead of empowering them to solve their needs by themselves and have a sense of achievement.

Stakeholders involved: A1 Community Works
edEUcation
Wisamar Bildungsgesellschaft gemeinnützige GmbH
Les Cultures – International culture workshop
Emphasys Centre

Key learning points: NEI.

Evaluation: No

Information sources: https://www.a1communityworks.org/digitalchampions-community
https://digitalchampions.community/Portals/0/adam/Document%20Manager/4AK7HXS_dEiIigHen-mtcA/Doc_Link/DCCS%20Newsletter%20No%201%20EN.pdf
https://digitalchampions.community/Portals/0/adam/Document%20Manager/cJN4CTug7UaiMz_6yGUiTg/Doc_Link/DCCS%20Newsletter%20No%203%20-%20EN.pdf
https://digitalchampions.community/Portals/0/adam/Document%20Manager/rmP584agaUCHoqdEaRz6kQ/Doc_Link/DCCS%20Newsletter%20No%202%20-%20EN.pdf

Read the full analysis: https://digitalchampions.community/About-Us