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Give Youth a Voice: Co-create a Website
Give Youth a Voice: Co-create a Website
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This activity invites youth workers, organisations, and young people to co-create a website together.
Collaborate to create a space where youth can express their voices, share stories, showcase ideas or art, and engage with their community online.
Choose a tool like Google Sites (https://sites.google.com) or Canva.com and co-design a site that features youth voices: poems, playlists, artwork, interviews, opinion pieces, or mini-campaigns.
By completing this activity, you will
- Learn how to co-design a website with youth using free online tools.
- Support youth in expressing identity, experiences, and creativity online.
- Build shared ownership and digital citizenship through collaborative storytelling.
Get inspired
Youth often don’t see themselves represented online, this activity flips the script by giving them the tools and support to create their own space.
Check out the website CurLoveCare.com as an example of a website that was created in collaboration with local youth in Curaçao.
Think of an idea for a website, choosing a topic that is relevant and interesting. Dor example, you can structure the site around themes like “What We Care About,” “Voices of Our Community,” or “Dreams for the Future.” Keep it simple, visual, and authentic.
Take action: activities for different roles
Young people:
- Decide what you want to say and who you want to say it to.
- Collaborate to upload your content and review it with your group before publishing.
Youth workers:
- Choose a website tool that’s free and accessible for your group (Google Sites, Carrd, or another).
- Guide a planning session where youth define what kind of website they want to create — what purpose, tone, audience?
Youth organisations:
- Explore how youth-created websites could be featured or embedded on your main site or social media.
- Encourage staff and volunteers to use these tools in future workshops, campaigns, or community projects.
Suggested follow-up activities
- Host a “Website Showcase” event online or in-person, where youth present their work and explain their choices.
- Connect your youth website with a digital storytelling or media literacy workshop.
- Print QR codes to place in public spaces or schools to increase visibility and access to the youth site.
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Skills and experiences gained
- Collaborative digital creation
- Youth voice and civic expression
- Basic website building and editing
- Teamwork and communication
- Media literacy and online publishing
Who created this resource?
This activity was developed by CITI (Curaçao Innovation and Technology Institute), a partner in the Digital Systemic project, as part of the Erasmus+ project Systemic Development of Digital Youth Work, in collaboration with the Cities of Learning Network.
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Website Co-creator Get this badge
This badge is awarded to anyone (youth, youth worker, or organization) who contributes to the planning and vision for a youth-led website. This badge recognises your role in imagining how a website can amplify youth voice, support collaboration, and make a real impact — even before it goes live.
Tasks
Task no.1
Evidence verified by: one activity organiser
Step 1:
Examine this template for the structure of a website:
Step 2:
Using this template, plan your website.
Step 3:
Share your website plan and how you aim to achieve it: How will it give youth a digital voice? What collaboration is needed to realize it? What impact do you hope the site has?
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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