Nearly 30 members of Kolping Youth Europe from 12 countries met for a media workshop from 12 to 15 of February 2015 in Voiswinkel near Cologne/Germany. The international group learned more about the Public Relations of Kolping International and visited the radio channel “Domradio” in Cologne. The young people prepared a radio transmission, which was broadcasted and now can be downloaded from the internet site: www.domradio.de.
How to good communicate with the young people and what it’s mean for the RP-work of the Kolping Youth on the international level? This and another questions was discussed by about 30 youngsters from 12 European countries during the Media workshop of Kolping Youth Europe in Voiswinkel near Cologne/Germany. The young people from Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Serbia, Moldova, Hungary, Albania, Kosovo, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania and the Czech Republic developed communication strategy of the organization.
During the workshop the communication strategy of the Kolping Youth Europe was discussed and the participants developed new ideas about Public Relations.
The youngsters worked with different aspects of the public relations in four small groups. The group “Newsletter & Flyer” was preparing professional advertising material for the Kolpingjugend Europe, the “Pictures” group took different motives and used it in the promotion materials.
The group “New Media” worked out suggestions how to reach more teenagers and young adults to visiting the Facebook and internet site. The work of the “radio” group was also interesting – this one took a radio program about voluntary work and prepared the interviews with the participants from the different countries. The radio program prepared by Kolping Youth from Shkoder/Albania can be used in the future to introduce the Kolping Youth Europe.
