2022
“Digital youth work”
Today, the digital environment plays a major role in communicating with young people - intermittently, as in any country, but distance communication has remained present. What are the new methods of digital work with young people, what new insights can we learn in this digital age?
Raimonds Elbakjans
Latvia
Founder of the most popular organisation in Latvia - "Ghetto Games"
📌 Instagram: /relbakjans
“Sustainability of NGOs today!”
Jānis Kozlovskis
Latvia
Janis is youth street sports movement "Ghetto Games" Media House creative personality, that is creating "Ghetto Games" broadcasts.
📌 Instagram: /janiskozlovskis
“How to make a talent show online - Ghetto Factor and Ghetto Raptor case study”
Sintija Leimane
Latvia
Sintija is youth street sports movement "Ghetto Games" Queen of social media, Ghetto TV Youtube channel broadcast moderator and Radio EHR podcast "What we are speaking about?" moderator.
📌 Instagram: /leimmane
“How to speak with young people and how to reach young people in digital platforms”
Jordi Mestre
Spain
Journalist from Barcelona, currently leading the global communications of the World Freestyle Football Association. He started his career as a sports journalist in VICE Spain and later moved to Salzburg to work for Red Bull in their Media House, where he first connected with the Freestyle Football community. After a spell in London, where he worked on sponsorship activation for M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment, and Paris, where he served as esports communications manager at Ubisoft, he went back to Barcelona to focus on turning the WFFA into a fully-professionalised global organisation.
📌 Instagram: /thewffa
“(Digit)all or nothing: the transformation of the WFFA”
“Street Sports influencers”
Influencers are a big and important component of the digital environment of social networking platforms. We perceive them as messengers in the industries of style, health, the latest trends and other topics. Influencers help us to form new opinions based on the information they provide, especially when it comes to young people whose opinions and personalities are still growing. From the point of view of influencer, what does the current situation look like? What are the pros and cons and, above all, what do they say about young people, their situation and the next steps?
Rafal Spajic
Croatia
Streetsoccer player from Croatia
Number 3 in the at the StreetSoccer WorldCup 2017&2019
adidas ambassador
Founder of streetsoccer school in Croatia
📌 Instagram: rafaelspajic/
“From the neighborhood to the world”
Discussion
“The impact and role of digital content in the daily lives of today's young people”
Social networks as our everyday life, which shape the views and opinions of our world, unite and also divide at the same time. Social networks as work with young people. Social network trends.
“Mental health issues in the digital era”
Over the last two years, there have been more and more dramatic statistics in the media stating that COVID-19 has not spared young people, deteriorating their mental health, dejection, depression and learning difficulties. Recent studies show that it has been compounded by the dejection caused by the pandemic. At the same time, the impact of the digital environment on the generation of the world has been studied for more than 20 years, and the impact of the pandemic has only accelerated the processes that were already visible and observable.
In this section, we will present global and national research, as well as experience stories of youth mental health in the digital age.
Elizabete Romanovska
USA/Latvia
Elizabete's experience includes work on the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) project, a longitudinal study that looks at youth development over a 10 year period. With 9,000 participants and 10 participating universities, the study focuses on how screen time influences cognitive development in youth. In her speech, she will focus on some of the findings from the ABCD research project.
She also has done research projects on pornography's influence on youth developement. Currently, she works on a research project for Meta (previously known as Facebook).
“How to help youth navigate their relationship with screens?”
Nils Sakss Konstantinovs
Latvia
Child and Adolescent Therapist
🌎 Web: www.pusaudzis.lv
“Youngsters mental health in digital era”
Kārlis Mednieks
Latvia
Trainer of resilience, leader of camp programs in the association "Resiliences centrs"
📌 Instagram: /karlismednieks
Discussion
“Mental health issues in the digital era”
“Street sports tendencies in Europa”
Despite various constraints, street sports movements in Europe have continued to develop and play an important role for young people. The organizers have found new solutions and new approaches to working with young people.
Sara Gry
Denmark
member of the Pannahouse Ladies
📌 Instagram: /saragry_cph
“Pannahouse Ladies: Integrating females in a male-dominant sport”
Lorenzo Pinciroli
Italy
Urban Sports Community & Entertainment team "Da Move" founder, frontman and creative director
📌 Instagram: /aigscream
“How to bring community together in COVID time”
Katalin Dan
Hungary
Cageball Szovetseg is the largest street football movement in Hungary
📌 Instagram: /cageballszovetseg
“Cageball Hungary vs. Covid 2:1”
Fatih Hatipoglu
Germany
Founder of Street Soccer BLN
Panna World Champion 🏆
Crew member of Panna Match BLN
📌 Instagram: /fatih_49
“Networking is the key”