What is Cyber-Visions?

Cyber-Visions is a 3 year project which commenced in January 2000 and aims to:

1.       Engage young people in understanding sustainable development

2.       Link young people in Kent and Medway to share their views and perspectives on sustainable development.

3.       Encourage and support young people in Kent and Medway to take local action for global change.

The project is managed by Commonwork and is currently working with one youth club or group in 4 areas of Kent:  Sevenoaks, Maidstone, Tonbridge & Malling and Tunbridge Wells and one group in Medway. The groups are chosen in consultation with local authority Environmental Co-ordinators, with a view to working with a variety of youth groups from different cultures and with different needs. 

A Cyber-Visions worker was recruited to visit potential groups and then devise materials to run a workshop with each youth group to enable the young people to create their visions of a sustainable future.  Jeff then re-visited these groups to help the young people to share their visions between the groups using e-mail and this website.

 

Learning and Sharing Day

Year 3 (2002) began with a Learning and Sharing Day held at the Commonwork Centre, Bore Place, near Sevenoaks on Saturday 26th January.  It was designed to enthuse and encourage the participating groups and increase their understanding of how the project fits into a wider Local Agenda 21 context. Groups were able to present their project work to date amongst each other and had the opportunity to network with other groups across Kent.  They were given advice, information and had a discussion session where they shared ideas, successes and problems. 

In the afternoon the groups were split into workshop where they were able to develop practical skills on wildlife gardening, woodland and coppicing skills and website design. A successful plenary discussed what has been shared and learnt and provided a springboard for forthcoming action in 2002, and schedule final event in December 2002.

What now?

Each group is now developing a small-scale sustainability project to work towards making their visions a reality.  The young people will be supported by their youth workers and the Cyber Visions worker. At the end of year 3 the whole project will be written up to enable other groups to run similar projects and learn from the Cyber Visions experience.