Context
Nowadays, media (traditional and social media) focuses primarily on negative events because they draw people in. However, we strongly believe that the media needs to be turned to the positive side to show what people do to uplift their communities.
We aim to support initiatives that foster a culture of civic awareness and responsibility, promote volunteering to strengthen social cohesion, address societal challenges, and encourage active citizenship through new technologies.
The Activism Collectors series started in 2022, with the first cohort of ESC Volunteers starting their mission in Bucharest. Eight ESC Volunteering missions in multiple countries such as Romania, Morroco & Italy have contributed to this project since then. Almost 100 interviews and 2 podcast series later, we have showcased important stories of activists in civil society, sustainability, and technology.
Over the past years, we have interviewed many people actively involved in civil society, volunteering or social issues in the cities of Bucharest, Câmpina, Larache, Bari and many more.
Impact in numbers
| 150+ interviews | 4 editions |
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| published episodes recorded with local activists making change in their community. | of the Activism Collectors series, including Democracy, Sustainability, Digital and Women in STEAM. |
| 3 countries | 60 volunteers |
| the Activism Collectors Series has been in Romania, Italy and Morroco... so far | involved in the Activism Collectors initiative. |
Timeline
2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022
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3 april 2025
In the context of the 2025 European Year of Digital Citizenship Education, we concluded the Digital Citizenship series of the Activism Collectors podcast through our episode with Radu Puchiu.
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March 2025
In March the first edition of the Pixels of Change series of workshops has come to an end. As part of the series, our volunteers encouraged young people to create structured video content. See some of the results of the participants in this recap video.
25 march 2025
We celebrated the International Day of Forests through an episode with Razvan Pistolea who woks on a digital solution aiding forests.
8 march 2025
As part of the Women in STEAM series, we celebrated the International Women's Day through a guided visit of the UiPath headquarters with young people from Campina who wanted to learn more about STEAM.
27 february 2025
We celebrated the a fost inclus drept bună practică în participarea tinerilor pe plan local de către consorțiul Europe goes local.
6 february 2025
In the 2025 season of Activism Collectors, we turned this series into a podcast. In february of 2025 we released the first episode in our series Activism Collectors Women in STEAM Edition, on Empowering Through Art with Livia Ioana Florea.Europe goes local.
2024
5 December 2024
We visited the youth in Câmpina to share with them the insights we have learned from the DEWMPOD methodology. Youth workers and students alike benefited from the experience and learned how to use podcasts as an educational tool and a way to tackle issues in their community..
November 2024
We wanted to build on the lessons learned over the years through the Activism Collectors series, which is why we started the Videomaking for Changemakers series of workshops in Romania.
July 2024
In July of 2024, we led 6th edition of the European Digital Youth Summit. In this series, the European Solidarity Corps Volunteers have shared the answers of the locals to questions related to employability, democracy, the digital landscape, sustainability and how it all relates to the EU.
GEYC lead 1 volunteering mission in Triggiano (Bari), Italy on the topic of Activism Collectors. Over the course of multiple months, the volunteers have intervierwed local activist, rangring from __ to __ and even lead personal projects exploring the ties between Italian culture and their home countries.
April 2024
We started off a new year of Activism Collectors in Romania with interviews created by the ESC volunteers dedicated to youth involvement, democracy and sustainability.2023
November-December 2023
In 2023 we led our first ever volunteering mission in Morroco. The volunteers who went to Morroco got to experience the local sustainability context, and got to meet local activists, showcasing their impact through the Activsm Collectors interview series.
February-October 2023
The first generation of European Solidarity Corps volunteers on sustainability have created content on sustainability.
February-October 2023
The first generation of European Solidarity Corps volunteers on sustainability have created content on youth evnovlement and democracy.2022
July 2022
GEYC along with the first generation of ESC volunteers have made possible the European Digital Youth Summit 2022 (EDYS22), making possible the 5th edition of the Summit in Bucharest.
The Activism Collectors Podcast comes to an end through the last episode in the Women in STEAM Edition powered by SENSE..