ERASMUS+

Creating Opportunities for the UK Across Europe

Erasmus+ projects provide life-changing opportunities for participants across the UK and sharing the stories and experiences of the organisations and people involved is a great way to raise awareness of Erasmus+ and encourage others to get involved. They have put together some expert advice, hints and tips on how organisations can showcase the inspirational achievements of participants using the latest new media platforms and, most importantly, how they can use their own voices to tell their life-changing stories.

The expert’s view: digital storytelling

It has never been easier to self-publish onto the Internet. Thanks to content communities (such as YouTube) anybody can become a creator, producing media and sharing it with their own personal audience. Digital storytelling is the umbrella term that you can use to describe this process of using digital tools to tell stories. Using video, audio, writing, blogging and social media there are unlimited ways in which we can tell our own story, or represent the stories of the participants in our projects.

By capturing the planning, key moments, behind-the-scenes activities, etc. of our projects we are able to build up an ongoing picture of what is happening whilst it is happening, rather than waiting to produce a final report or video at the end of the project.