B.E. I Beyond Experience Bulgaria

24/09/2026

Hi everyone,

We would really appreciate your help with a short survey for youth workers, trainers and facilitators.

The survey explores how we design and choose learning activities, maintain attention and motivation, use feedback, and support participants in remembering and applying what they learn.

There are no right or wrong answers – we are interested in your actual experience and everyday practice, whether you are an experienced trainer or just starting out in youth work.

It takes around 5–7 minutes to complete.
👉 Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfAfBrHu1B9Vd8M9BYb5xyH7BArEoE-ngmjzi8__Su-15Jx9g/viewform?usp=publish-editor

Thank you for your time and contribution! Please feel free to share it with other youth workers, trainers and facilitators.

The purpose of this short survey is to explore how youth workers, trainers and facilitators design learning activities and make decisions related to attention, motivation, level of challenge, practice, feedback and retention. There are no right or wrong answers. We are interested in your actual prac...

17/09/2026

Strong Digital Organisational Culture does not appear overnight. It is built through small, consistent decisions that make digital work easier to understand, manage and improve. 💻
For youth NGOs, this often starts with very practical questions:
Do we know which tools we use — and why?
Do team members know where to share updates, tasks and decisions?
Can new volunteers understand how our digital work is organised?
Are important folders, accounts and templates accessible to the right people?
Do we reflect on digital activities after they happen, especially when it comes to access, participation and safety?
These questions may seem simple, but they reveal a lot about how digital culture functions inside an organisation.
When they are not addressed, digital work can easily become dependent on habits, assumptions or one person’s knowledge. This can create confusion, slow down teamwork and make it harder to include young people meaningfully.
Small DOC habits help organisations move from improvisation to clarity.
They support better coordination, safer digital spaces, stronger continuity and a more intentional use of tools in everyday youth work.
But small habits are only the beginning. 🔹
To make digital transformation sustainable, youth organisations also need a clearer path: how to connect digital practices with strategy, inclusion, learning, resilience and long-term organisational development.
This is exactly why the CODE roadmap is coming next — to help youth NGOs go further, step by step. 🧭

17/09/2026

How can a youth organisation understand its Digital Organisational Culture?

Not only by looking at which tools it uses, but by reflecting on how digital practices are actually embedded in everyday work. 💻

The CODE Assessment Tool was developed as a practical self-assessment for youth organisations, youth workers, NGO representatives and organisational leaders who want to better understand their current digital culture.

The tool includes 28 items and takes around 8-10 minutes to complete. Respondents rate statements on a scale from 1 to 5, from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree”. The result is then calculated automatically and shown through an overall level, together with a dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

It looks at 7 areas of Digital Organisational Culture:

🔹 Digital Strategy
🔹 Digital Skills & Capacity
🔹 Digital Communication
🔹 Innovation & Adaptability
🔹 Digital Inclusion & Equity
🔹 Stakeholder Engagement
🔹 Digital Resilience

For NGOs, this kind of reflection can help make digital culture more visible.

It can show where the organisation already has strong practices, where there are gaps and where team members may need more clarity, support or shared understanding.

Important:
The result is a self-perceived snapshot, not a final judgement. It helps the NGO reflect on its current digital culture, identify strengths and notice areas that may need attention.

The assessment is not about ranking organisations.
It is about starting a more informed internal conversation on how digital work is organised, experienced and understood inside the organisation. 🔹

17/09/2026

How can a youth organisation understand its Digital Organisational Culture?
Not only by looking at which tools it uses, but by reflecting on how digital practices are actually embedded in everyday work. 💻
The CODE Assessment Tool was developed as a practical self-assessment for youth organisations, youth workers, NGO representatives and organisational leaders who want to better understand their current digital culture.
The tool includes 28 items and takes around 8-10 minutes to complete. Respondents rate statements on a scale from 1 to 5, from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree”. The result is then calculated automatically and shown through an overall level, together with a dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
It looks at 7 areas of Digital Organisational Culture:
🔹 Digital Strategy
🔹 Digital Skills & Capacity
🔹 Digital Communication
🔹 Innovation & Adaptability
🔹 Digital Inclusion & Equity
🔹 Stakeholder Engagement
🔹 Digital Resilience
For NGOs, this kind of reflection can help make digital culture more visible.
It can show where the organisation already has strong practices, where there are gaps and where team members may need more clarity, support or shared understanding.
Important:
The result is a self-perceived snapshot, not a final judgement. It helps the NGO reflect on its current digital culture, identify strengths and notice areas that may need attention.
The assessment is not about ranking organisations.
It is about starting a more informed internal conversation on how digital work is organised, experienced and understood inside the organisation. 🔹

17/09/2026

Many youth organisations are already using digital tools in their daily work. They communicate through messaging apps, manage visibility through social media, store files online, organise meetings digitally and rely on different platforms for coordination. 💻
However, in many cases, digital transformation is still approached in a fragmented way.
The focus is often placed on individual tools:
Which platform do we use?
Where do we post?
Which app is better?
How do we make our work more digital?
What is often missing is a more structured organisational reflection:
How do these tools influence the way our organisation communicates, collaborates, includes young people, shares responsibility, protects data and adapts to change?
This is an important gap for youth NGOs.
Without a structured overview, digital work can remain scattered across different tools, accounts and habits.
Without shared dimensions, organisations may focus on visibility while overlooking inclusion, internal coordination, resilience or digital skills.
Without internal reflection, teams may continue using digital tools every day without fully understanding whether those tools actually support the organisation’s mission and ways of working.
In practice, this means that an NGO may be active online and still struggle with:
🔹 unclear communication channels
🔹 files and information spread across different places
🔹 inconsistent digital practices between team members
🔹 limited continuity when roles change
🔹 weak inclusion of young people with different digital access needs
🔹 low clarity about strengths, gaps and priorities
This is why digital transformation cannot start only with action.
It also needs diagnosis.
Before an organisation improves its digital culture, it needs a clearer picture of how that culture currently functions across the organisation: what is already working well, what is missing, and what requires more attention.
For youth organisations, this is not only a technical question. It is a question of quality, sustainability, inclusion and organisational development.
A stronger digital future starts with a better understanding of the present. 🔹

17/09/2026

Digital inclusion is not only a technical question. It is also a youth work question. 🌍
A young person may technically have access to an online activity, but still not be able to participate fully.
They may be joining from a shared phone.
They may have limited mobile data.
They may not have a quiet or private space.
They may feel insecure using a platform.
They may need materials in a simpler, visual or more accessible format.
They may not feel safe turning on their camera or speaking in front of others.
For youth organisations, this means digital inclusion has to be planned intentionally and not assumed.
A digitally inclusive NGO thinks about the full participation journey: how young people hear about an opportunity, register, receive instructions, enter the digital space, interact during the activity, ask for support and stay connected afterwards.
This can include:
📲 mobile-friendly communication
📶 low-data or asynchronous options
🧭 simple onboarding before using a new platform
🔐 clear consent, privacy and moderation rules
🗣️ different ways to participate, not only speaking out loud
📄 accessible materials that are easy to read and reuse
🤝 support for young people with lower digital confidence
When digital inclusion is part of organisational culture, online youth work becomes more than accessible “in theory”.
It becomes easier to enter, safer to participate in and more meaningful for young people with different realities. 🔹

17/09/2026

Digital Organisational Culture is not built by choosing one “perfect” platform. It is built through everyday agreements, habits and responsibilities inside the organisation. 💻
For youth NGOs, this can start with simple but important questions:
📌 Who is responsible for updating shared folders, documents and tools?
📌 Which communication channel is used for urgent updates, project planning, volunteer coordination or youth communication?
📌 How are new staff members and volunteers introduced to the organisation’s digital way of working?
📌 Are files, learning materials and event information easy to access for people with different needs?
📌 Are consent, data protection and online safety considered before activities are implemented?
📌 Do digital tools help the organisation work better or do they create more confusion?
Strong DOC means that digital practices are not left to chance.
It gives teams clearer routines, reduces dependency on one person, makes collaboration easier and helps youth organisations respond more confidently to the needs of young people.
For NGOs, this is especially important because digital work is connected to inclusion, participation, trust, safety and the quality of youth work.
Digital culture starts when an organisation stops asking only “Which tool should we use?”
and starts asking:
“How do we want to work, communicate and include people in the digital age?” 🔹

17/09/2026

Young people are online every day, but for youth organisations, digital readiness is not only about posting on social media. 💻

Incorporating Digital Organisational Culture means changing how an NGO works from the inside.
It means having clear digital communication channels, so information does not get lost between emails, chats and personal accounts.
It means having shared folders, naming rules and accessible materials, so staff, volunteers and new members can find what they need.
It means using digital tools for teamwork, planning, feedback and decision-making, not just for promotion.
It means thinking about data protection, online safety and responsible use of technology when working with young people.
It also means making sure that young people with fewer opportunities are not excluded because of low digital skills, limited access or inaccessible formats.
For youth organisations, strong DOC can support:
📲 clearer communication with young people and stakeholders
🗂️ better internal organisation and knowledge-sharing
🤝 smoother teamwork between staff, volunteers and partners
🔐 safer handling of data, communication and online spaces
🌍 more inclusive digital participation
⚡ faster adaptation when youth work, tools or needs change
🎯 more purposeful use of technology instead of adding platforms without strategy
This is why DOC matters.
Because a youth organisation can use digital tools every day and still not be digitally ready.

27/01/2026

👌 Достъпността не е добавка – тя е съществена.

Платформата Mindful Minds вече включва иновативни опции за достъпност, създадени да отговарят на различни нужди и предпочитания, като позволяват на потребителите да персонализират своето изживяване:
✔️ режим с висок контраст за по-добра видимост
✔️ увеличен размер на шрифта за по-лесно четене
✔️ опростен изглед за намаляване на визуалната сложност
✔️ намалено движение за ограничаване на анимации и преходи

💛 Тези функции са особено важни за потребители с визуална чувствителност, различия в когнитивните и изпълнителните функции, както и за невродивергентни състояния като диспраксията.

Mindful Minds е проект по програма Erasmus+, който има за цел да развива и укрепва психично-здравната грамотност и да насърчава приобщаващи подходи за работа с млади хора. Платформата адресира и нуждите на младежи с диспраксия, като обединява практически ресурси, обучителни материали и резултати от проекта в подкрепа на младежки работници, преподаватели и организации за създаване на по-безопасна и разбираща среда за младите хора.

💛 Благодарим на нашите партньори Navissos и B.E. I Beyond Experience Bulgaria за техния ценен принос. Проектът се подкрепя от ΙΔΕΠ Διά Βίου Μάθησης Erasmus+ Cyprus.

🔗 Посетете платформата:
https://mindfulminds.mind-spin.com/

👌 Accessibility is not an add-on, it’s essential.

The Mindful Minds platform now includes innovative accessibility options designed to adapt to different needs and preferences, allowing users to customise their experience:

✔️ High contrast mode for improved visibility
✔️ Larger font size for easier reading
✔️ Simple layout mode to reduce visual complexity
✔️ Reduced motion to limit animations and transitions

💛 These features are especially important for users with visual sensitivities, cognitive and executive function differences, and neurodiverse conditions such as dyspraxia.

Mindful Minds is an Erasmus+ project that aims to enhance and strengthen mental health literacy and promote inclusive approaches for young people. The platform also addresses the needs of youth with dyspraxia. It brings together practical resources, learning materials, and project outputs aimed at supporting youth workers, educators, and organisations in creating safer, more understanding environments for young people.

💛 Many thanks to our partners Navissos and B.E. I Beyond Experience Bulgaria for their valuable contributions. The project is supported by ΙΔΕΠ Διά Βίου Μάθησης Erasmus+ Cyprus.

🔗 Visit the platform:
https://mindfulminds.mind-spin.com/

27/01/2026

🌐 Платформата Mindful Minds вече е онлайн! 🌐

Платформата на проекта Mindful Minds, финансиран по програма Erasmus+, е официално активна и готова за използване. Тя е създадена с цел да укрепи психично-здравната грамотност и да насърчи приобщаващи подходи за работа с млади хора, като обръща специално внимание и на нуждите на младежи с диспраксия.

💬 Платформата обединява практически ресурси, обучителни материали и резултати от проекта, насочени към подкрепа на младежки работници, преподаватели и организации в създаването на по-безопасна, разбираща и подкрепяща среда за младите хора.

✨ Mindful Minds работи за изграждането на по-осъзнато, приобщаващо и психично устойчиво бъдеще, в което гласът на младите хора се чува, а психичното здраве се разпознава и подкрепя.

💛 В партньорство с Navissos и B.E. I Beyond Experience Bulgaria. Проектът се подкрепя от ΙΔΕΠ Διά Βίου Μάθησης Erasmus+ Cyprus.

🔗 Посетете платформата: https://mindfulminds.mind-spin.com/