“We are all digital natives” stands for a new way of thinking about education and lifelong learning. In Europe, learners need to know how to act and live with digital reality. Younger users need to achieve digital responsibility. Older learners and workers need to be introduced to and made proficient in the navigation of the digital world in order to qualify them for jobs needed today. The biggest challenge to become and stay a “digital native” is faced by teachers and trainers in all education sectors, in formal and non-formal education. For them it will in future be increasingly important to keep pace with the latest digital methods and technologies in order to keep their curricula up to date. This project will therefore defined and compared, published and promoted good practice examples of digital methods used across all education sectors across Europe. In this way it can be ensured that everyone becomes a digital native.The project held 5 transnational meetings at which each partner prepared 2 good practice examples of digital methods, based on an evaluation grid, providing criteria for good digital teaching. The practices had been documented in a eBook which is for free downloadable (http://www.comparative-research.net/fileadmin/user_upload/mb/digital_natives/We_are_all_Digital_Natives_Collected_Practices.pdf). Based on the good practice analysis and intense discussions inside the partnership and with stakeholders and decision makers the partnership formulated nine recommendations on how to develop good digital training/teaching:1. It’s about you, not the technology 2.Teach how to learn and manage change 3.Open the classroom to the world4.Break down barriers of knowledge and perception5.Make your class sustainable6.There are no experts in the digital world 7.Connect the offline and online world8.Digital tools are a compass - digital tools help to navigate the digital world. 9.Let the voices of your students be heardMore details can be read here: http://www.comparative-research.net/fileadmin/user_upload/mb/digital_natives/Policy_Recommendation_DINA_ENG.pdf

"EUROSPECTIVES 2.0, the follow up of the finalized strategic partnership “We are all digital natives”, stands for training and encouraging European learners in telling their stories, their perspectives. Digital Storytelling is a way to engage and empower learners and teachers. By telling and sharing stories in the digital era, they can intervene, interact and change with their everyday environment, by fostering their feeling of public ownership and citizenship. ""Digital storytelling,"" combines the longstanding art of storytelling with the use of a variety of multimedia tools. This type of activity can generate interest, attention and motivation for ""digital education”. The process capitalizes on the creative talents of learners who will develop their communication skills by learning to organize their ideas, ask questions, express opinions, and construct narratives. Since the digital aspect of storytelling is including non-verbal communication and expression, it is an inclusive approach, which can be facilitated especially by disadvantaged learners such as refugee, handicapped, poorly educated and long-term unemployed. The approach enables learners to discover their creativity and to improve their position on the job market through their new skills. The EUROSPECTIVES 2.0 project identifies smart practice methods and turn them into a state-of-the-art training module curriculum, integrating digital storytelling into lifelong learning experience. EUROSPECTIVES 2.0 was 30 month long project with one month extension. The outcomes are delivered through the following main activities: 1. Evaluation of 12 smart practices of using digital storytelling for educational purposes. 2. Development of the training module curriculum based on the smart practices. 3. Testing of the curriculum in different teaching environments provided by three training courses. 4. Dissemination of the results and outputs following the project dissemination matrix. The project’s web site and two multiplier events as the core of this activity. The main results and outputs of the project are: 1. Development of a sustainable strategic partnership for ongoing collaboration and sharing of smart practice. 2. A website to support digital storytellers, digital community reporters, organisations and facilitators. 3. Policy recommendations for implementing digital storytelling as method for teaching 21st century literacy. 4. An eBook of the digital storytelling training curriculum and its summary in all project languages Additional result: 5. Interactive online multinodular training and curriculum with an open access on genial.ly platform (https://view.genial.ly/604fb1b3bde3430d89980f92/interactive-content-eurospectives-storylines). Within EUROSPECTIVES 2.0 each partner shared its specific experiences and skills: Crossing Borders – coordinator, active in youth and adult education. Sharing expertise in dissemination, and youth work, qualifying trainer and volunteers;Comparative Research Network e.V. - active in adult education, sharing expertise in curriculum building, digital storytelling methods and evaluation systems; Ellinogermaniki Agogi – active in ‘teaching teachers’ – vocational, primary and secondary education. Sharing expertise in digital curriculum building, digital classrooms and dissemination; People's Voice Media – active in qualifying community reporter, sharing expertise in curriculum building, certification and qualification of trainer; COSV Italy – active in training trainers and project manager, working with migrants. Sharing expertise in media methodology, dissemination and qualification in non-formal education; CFR Vigo -is working on the digitalization of classrooms in primary and secondary education, by supporting teacher who want to initiate projects; Institut Cultura 21 - is a provider of non-formal participatory education. The partner has experience in civic education and has a deep knowledge on using storytelling and media literacy methods with various age groups.EUROSPECTIVES 2.0 plays a direct effect on approximately 4000 people through the meetings, trainings, dissemination activities and the two multiplier events. The long term benefits of the project are the integration of digital storytelling tool in teaching curriculum especially tailored for disadvantaged learners: persons with disabilities, coming from marginal groups and/or suffering from communication problems. Indirect long term impact is the increase of digital literacy and active citizenship among people living in marginal situation."