2024:Program/CEE Youth Group: poster presentation

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Session title: CEE Youth Group: poster presentation

Session type: Poster

Track: Contributor/Community Engagement

Language: en

CEE Youth Group is a group created in August 2023 by the CEE Hub. It's target is to unite the Youth community in the CEE countries and promote Wikimedia practices among Youth while also helping a lot with building multidimensional capacity for its members. The presentation is aiming to show the various youth projects around CEE and highlight the importance of the group while highlighting also the importance of applying the model elsewhere.

Description

The presentation runs in parallel with the main CEE Youth Group panel presentation. The poster session is including basic information about CEE Youth group.

It displays basic information about CEE Youth Group, its work, it's objectives and social media to reach out.

Link to the main CEE Youth Group panel presentation: https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/review/FQDZYUJYPYWMC7ZMLLQMYARTQRVTUED8

How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?

It allies with the mission of Collaboration of the Open in various critical aspects. For example, it includes the collaboration of facilitators from the CEE Hub and young people for the capacity building. Also, it includes the capacity building of young people, something critical, like in the role of the group, to produce new open knowledge advocates that will be the agitators of the open culture in the years to come. It is also very significant to stress that it is very significant to promote Wikimedia values to the young people in their countries. The importance of CEE Youth Group is also that it ensures the collaboration between Wikimedians of various generations, making a collaborative bond for the Wikimedia movement and ensures the greater diffusion of Wikimedia values among the dispersed youth community.

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Everyone can participate in this session

Speakers

• Nikos Likomitros

Nikos Likomitros is a Greek Wikimedian. He contributes since 2013, regularly from 2016 there. He has been involved with young Wikimedians since pretty earlier in his Wikimedia career, by helping a lot with cementing a stable community of youth, teenagers and students. He has organized various editathons in Greek Wikipedia and is a member of the Greek Usergroup. Moreover since 2023 he is involved in the Wikivibrance network and he is involved on youth projects, while he is also member of CEE Youth Group. He is interested on affairs related to youth and Wikimedia movement but also for developing communities. He has done Wikimedia outreach in 2 universities so far, being a key member of Wiki for Minorities international network and recently made an online webinar for Greeks in Germany. He also attended CEE Youth Group meeting in Prague, Czechia where he learned a lot about youth projects from around CEE and shared his own experiences. He's interested on international collaborations, the future of the movement, governance, experience exchange and Wikimedia ecosystem.