Voluntary Organisations Roundtable: understanding needs for Digital Action

UCL Extreme Citizen Science

Join others interested in "Understanding voluntary organisation needs and challenges in Digital Action”: mapping skills, gaps, and solutions

University College London

Do you work with or are you interested in voluntary organisations (by this we mean not-for profit organisations offering a range of support, run by and with individuals who do not get paid)? Are you interested in running a citizen science project, a makeathon or a hackathon? Are you interested how members of the public or voluntary organisations interact with community groups? Do you have ideas about how Higher Education Institutions can support voluntary organisations to improve their digital skills? Do you want to know more about what methods you can use to for Digital Action or how to design successful citizen science and similar activities? Or do you simply want to meet some like-minded people interested in voluntary organisations? If so, come and join us! We are <a href="https://heidiproject.eu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HEIDI</a>, a research project at UCL, and we are interested in what Higher Education Insitutions can do to support voluntary organisations, community groups, and citizens to shape better societies. We invite you to participate in a roundtable discussion with people volunteering and working with voluntary organisations across London, the UK, Europe, and the world about Digital Action. The roundtable will provide space to explore your ideas about digital skills, how these impact voluntary organisations from engaging with Digital Action, which digital skills you think are essential, and how Higher Education Institutions and community groups can offer you opportunities to develop digital skills. Included in the hour-long event will be the following presentations and discussion points: <ul><li>What is Digital Action? How much have you been involved in Digital Action?</li><li>What is the impact of using Digital Action?</li><li>How HEIDI understands Digital Action</li><li>What Digital Skills are important for Digital Action?</li><li>The connections between digital skills and roles </li></ul>W﻿ho is this event for?This is a specific roundtable designed to bring together anyone from around the world who are volunteering with voluntary organisations, working with them, or interested in them. Over the session we will explore through discussion and online activities about what support voluntary organisations need from Higher Education Institutions or community groups, and what digital skills or resources are necessary for Digital Action. We will also discuss how digital skills have impacted your experience with Digital Action, and how Digital Action might offer opportunities to develop these skills! I﻿f you are interested in voluntary organisations, Digital Action, or digital skills, you are welcome to attend. You do not have to be in the UK - you can be anywhere in the world. You also do not need to have participated in Digital Action yet - you may simply be interested in the idea!This event will be run both in-person and online, so all participants will be sent a Zoom link.We have booked a room at UCL for those who would like to attend the event on campus. We will e-mail you with the room location if you choose the &quot;In person on UCL campus&quot; ticket. If you choose the &quot;Zoom&quot; ticket, we will e-mail you with a Zoom link a few hours before the event. Following the event we will have a 30 minute period in-person where you can get to know other attendees. W﻿hat is the HEIDI project?The Erasmus+ project, HEIDI (“Digital Action at HEIs as a catalyst for social change in the Covid-19 crisis”), aims to provide training (for staff, decision makers, students, librarians, and communities) enabling Higher Education Institutions to better embrace and support bottom-up digital action (i.e. hackathons, makeathons and citizen science initiatives). Until 2023 we will be running 90 events (in the UK, France, Malta, Cyprus and Greece) and aim to engage more than 3,000 people.L﻿ast year we held a series of roundtables with HEI staff and students, which you can read about in the UCL ExCiteS blog <a href="https://uclexcites.blog/2021/12/20/mapping-the-barriers-and-drivers-of-digital-action-within-higher-education-institutions-project-heidi/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a> and the HEIDI Project page <a href="https://heidiproject.eu/io1-study-on-drivers-and-barriers-of-he-engagement-in-da-as-catalyst-for-social-change-for-he-staff-and-citizens/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.T﻿he HEIDI Project holds regular webinars and workshops, and you can find some of our past talks on our YouTube channel. We are also planning to hold several roundtables and workshops for specific stakeholder groups in the comming months, and we will release the details of these shortly.HEIDI is supported by the ERASMUS+ programme of the European Union under Grant Agreement no. 2020-1-UK01-KA226-HE-094667.

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