This project was consisted of series of webinars about the effective usage of certain digital tools during various crises (Pandemic, military conflicts, natural disasters).
This project was implemented with the active involvement of the student-leaders from another educational project of the garagErasmus4Yerevan organization. The aim of this project was to transfer some specific knowledge and skills to people who have lack of those types of skills or just eager to know more about the topic. The project has no age, gender limitation and was free of charge.

Students4Students: Digitalization is an innovative project which provides an unique opportunity for the young students to become trainer and to transfer digital soft skills through the digital platform (website) among young students with fewer opportunities living in remote areas or coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. It tackles issues of unemployment, digitalization and youth activism. The project had 2 central stages: Offline and Online.
Overall there were more than 50 participants, 4 of them were student-leaders who became multipliers of the project and after the project they took initiative to organize some other educational events.
The central objectives are:

• To train a group of young leaders (students) to become trainers of digital soft skills;
• To train a group of young leaders (students) to become speakers of Erasmus+ (focusing on The new Erasmus+ programme for 2021-2027);
• To launch professional work-space-website, which is the main working platform of the second stage of Students4Students project;
• To transform the newly obtained digital soft skills to other students with fewer opportunities;
• To develop, promote and spread ideas of digital transformation and digitalization by using the received knowledge and skills;
• To promote ecological awareness;

Edu VideoHub is an international videography project which delivers various interactive and innovative  video-courses about Social Media, Blogging/Vlogging, Journalism and many other topics. The project is completely free of charge, available and accessible for everyone on Youtube. The project had more than 200 active participants and around 3000 viewers of the video chapters.
The project’s goals are as follows:

• To help the beneficiaries to acquire skills of targeting topics, making video blogs and promoting the product on social media platforms;
• To make high quality video course reachable literally for everyone (the target group is 16-25 y.o. but everyone is welcomed to watch);
• To organize a small competition among the participants of the project in this way to motivate them to complete video course and watch all the series;
• To promote Erasmus+ through the interactive sessions;

To create a new educational, digital platform

In 2021, Edu VanHub was scaled up and implemented with some new features. This time the target country was Armenia. The moving hub drove to Armenian 12 rural communities and implemented 24 training-sessions. There were more than 180 participants. All the trainings were delivered based on non-formal education methodology and techniques.

The specific objectives of the project were:

• To introduce digital learning tools to the beneficiaries, help them to learn how to analyze and evaluate information in a critical way
• To prepare them to being engaged in the production of media as independent users;
• To help the beneficiaries to acquire skills of targeting topics, making video blogs and promoting the product on social media platform;
•  To employ the freshly obtained skills in understanding the concept of individual mobility in Erasmus+ ;
• Facilitate the access to Erasmus+ ;
• To teach to filter out fake information ;

To make outdoor promotion of Erasmus+ in 12 rural communities of Armenia.

The second phase of the Edu VanHub international project was implemented in various EaP countries such as Georgia, Armenia, Russia and Ukraine. Overall, within the international phase of the project, our team has crossed around 8k kilometers in order to implement the project. The project was recognized as one of the best educational startups in 2019 by the European Commission.
The general objectives were:
 

• To introduce the beneficiaries with digital learning tools
• To help them to learn how to analyze information in a critical way and evaluate it based on that analysis;
• To prepare them to be engaged in the production of  media independent users;
• To employ the newly learnt skills in understanding the concept of individual mobility in Erasmus+;
• To develop an online platform (website) where the beneficiaries can network, get mentorship and advices, exchange information, create new media contents, initiate and participate in media campaigns and competitions, share some thoughts and ideas, get updated information about Erasmus+ opportunities etc.

Edu VanHub is an international educational project that promotes the role of media literacy for the inclusion and empowerment of socially disadvantaged youth living in rural areas.
It’s a Moving Hub on the wheels. The first phase of the Edu VanHub education project took place in 2018 in ten Armenian villages (Lori and Shirak regions). The project reached out more than 100 teenage participants during this phase. The project methodology is designed on the principle that educational spaces/projects can be moveable and that learning can take place anywhere if there is interaction (movement) between people.
 The main goals were:

• Introduction of participants with Media and Digital Knowledge;
• Empowerment of socially disadvantaged young people through specific Media skills;
• Introduction of the Erasmus + programme;
• Distribution of media information about Erasmus+ program opportunities;
• Creation of the online platform where participants can get information about various opportunities and get educational advice from media professionals;