From digital citizenship to podcasting for impact, the Changemakers Bootcamp 2025 brought together 30+ youth, educators, and youth workers from GEYC Community, to create something powerful.
Objectives
- Increasing digital citizenship skills of GEYC team & Community members
- Introducing podcasting as a tool to increase youth participation
- Creating a pool of Changemakers Podcast Experts to engage in a long term engagement by creating monthly podcasts within GEYC Community
- Co-creating podcasts relevant to the 4 GEYC portfolios, to be posted on GEYC’s Youtube channel
- Celebrating #GEYC15 by connecting GEYC Community members to the GEYC Executive team & the Board of Directors, bringing forward GEYC2030 vision
Context
>> The activity was an event granted with the
European Year of Digital Citizenship Education 2025 label.
>> Changemakers Bootcamp 2025 was organized as a blended
dissemination activity in the frame of DEMPOD project (Project ID: 101112244), funded by Erasmus+, Virtual Exchanges in Higher Education and Youth.
The project is supporting our community members to increase their civic
engagement and democratic participation through podcasting.
Find more about the project and its result at
dempod.eu
>> The project was part of the series of activities marking GEYC's 15th anniversary.
Changemakers Bootcamp is aimed at Community members for whom being a passive citizen is not an option, who want to develop through extracurricular activities, in a dynamic and nonformal environment, and who want to meet other young people involved in the GEYC Community. The event is also an opportunity to get to know GEYC better and the activities we carry out in each department. The event started in 2023, in the context of the anniversary of GEYC Community that we celebrate each year in the month of March.