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Settled in: Navigating life in your new home
Settled in: Navigating life in your new home
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Once you've moved in, knowing where to find support, understanding your responsibilities, and building a positive living environment are essential. This activity will guide you through accessing help, dealing with repairs, understanding local regulations, and fostering good neighborly relations.
The Kwikstart app offers helpful videos that touch upon aspects of living in your new home. Watch the video that relates to getting help with housing and understanding your responsibilities as a resident.
By completing this activity, you will
The "Settled in: Navigating life in your new home" activity primarily works on Information and Data Literacy (finding and understanding critical information about living independently) and Communication and Collaboration (interacting with various stakeholders to build a positive living environment and seek support). Problem Solving is also a key area, as participants learn to identify issues and find digital solutions for their housing-related challenges.The badges ("Resourceful Resident," "Settlement Support," "Strategic Community Builder") reinforce these connections. The "Resourceful Resident" points to individual digital literacy and problem-solving. "Settlement Support" highlights the digital communication and problem-solving skills for guiding others. "Strategic Community Builder" implies using digital tools for broader community engagement and advocacy.
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Moving into a new place is just the beginning. Understanding your rights and responsibilities as a resident, knowing where to turn for help, and building positive relationships with your neighbors contribute significantly to your well-being and integration into the community across Europe.
Take action: activities for different roles
Explore the role-specific badges below to access activities designed to enhance your understanding and support young people in navigating life in their new homes.
Claim open badge recognition
Upon completing the activities, participants can claim digital badges recognizing their competence in:
- For young people: Understanding the resources and responsibilities of living in a new home (Resourceful Resident).
- For youth workers: Guiding young people in navigating challenges and responsibilities as residents (Settlement Support).
- For managers in youth work: Strategically addressing the support needs and rights of young residents (Strategic Community Builder).
Who created this resource
Awero, Lithuania (Project Lead)
Breakthrough Foundation, Netherlands
Curaçao Innovation & Technology Institute (CITI)
TiPovej! Zavod - Institute for Creative Society, Slovenia
Next steps
Consider how the different aspects of living independently are interconnected. Reflect on how you can continue to learn and grow in managing your living environment and contributing to your community.
Get activity badge
Badge for Young People: Resourceful Resident Get this badge
Awarded for understanding where to find help with housing issues and recognizing your basic responsibilities as a resident. This badge acknowledges your awareness of how to navigate life in your new home.
Skills and experiences gained
This badge aligns with LifeComp and DigComp competence and supports the development of:
- Identifying needs and technological responses (knowing where to find help and information)
- Developing creative ideas, synthesising and combining concepts and information from different sources in view of solving problems (identifying solutions to housing issues)
- Reflecting on other people’s feedback as well as on successful and unsuccessful experiences to continue developing one’s potential (understanding your obligations as a resident)
- Empathy (recognizing the importance of neighbors)
Tasks
Task no.1
Evidence verified by: one activity organiser
Complete the following tasks to earn the Resourceful Resident badge.
Activity
- Watch & Learn: Watch the "Wonen" video in the Kwikstart app.
- Finding Help: According to the video (and your own general knowledge), what are at least two potential places or people you could turn to if you have a problem related to your housing (e.g., repairs, neighbor disputes, feeling lonely)?
- Resident Responsibilities: What are two basic responsibilities you likely have as a resident in your home or building (e.g., waste disposal, respecting neighbors, informing the landlord about repairs)?
Claim the badge
Task: Share your understanding of where to find help and resident responsibilities. Evidence: Submit a short written reflection (or audio/video) outlining the two places/people for help and your two resident responsibilities.
Organisers
Digital Youth Work Resource Hub
Awero not-for-profit organisation manages this platform and develops it together with leading educational organisations. The European Union's programme Erasmus+ granted co-funding for building the first version of this platform. Contact support@awero.org.
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