Voices in the digital world

Shortly before Easter-time the first WYRED cycle was finished at the  “Produktionsschule Eggenburg“ in Lower Austria. At this school Young People are prepared for either continuing formal school education or for starting an apprenticeship. They are intensely supported in defining their occupational future. Highly engaged they worked on the topics, being specifically important for them in the digital world. This means that they add their specific ideas, expectations and wishes to these of the participants in the other countries and make them available to external stakeholders.

Participants from the „Produktionsschule Eggenburg, on the righ the coordinator at Eggenburg Franziska Titzmann

Topics for the digital future

Impressively “derkoffer1”, “zeref36” and “178” (avatar-names) for example describe the fascination gaming has for them: It turnes out that this fascination has a lot to do with being a valuable part of a community. A member of a community who is appreciated and who´s contribution to the game is regarded as a being welcomed and wanted. Amongst several other participants “Sedetka” explores environmental pollution, inequalities of the resources-distribution in the world or the issue blaming colleagues in school. So, she writes a story and tells us, how to avoid blaming and shaming. Furthermore, her poems describing good and not so good times in life in their emotionality are very touching.

High creativity

Just exemplary you find two artefacts below, indicating the high level of creativity the young people from Eggenburg have shown. One product is from Sedetka about what she is expecting for her future life. The second artefact is from “Jesseal”, who created a collage showing the dangers of nuclear power plants, being a steady real danger in the northern border region of Austria – the region where the Produktionsschule Eggenburg is located nearby.

Sedetka: My life is great

Jesseal: Dangers of nuclear power plants

The WYRED team wants to thank the young people from Eggenburg for their engagement, their ideas and the topics they brought in. Thereby they significantly contributed to making WYRED a success.