Partner information form
Organisation ID (OID): E10309328
Hello partner,
We are happy that you are taking your time getting to know us and considering us as a partner for your project. We look forward to collaborating with you in meaningful ways.
We at Co-literate strive to be a considerate and trustworthy partner. Our organisation is built on principles of equity and diversity. In a partnership, we recognise the value of partner reliability, openness, curiosity, effort, and shared spaces.
In fact, we believe that the process is as valuable as the outcomes.
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Co-literate
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Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education
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Vestre Ringgade 210
Aarhus C
8000
Region Midtjylland
Denmark
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947299382 / E10309328
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We would love to chat, email, or meet in a Zoom call to talk about projects. Hope to hear from you!
Here is a brief description of our organisation
Co-literate is a for-purpose organisation created by a group of young professionals in the fields of medicine, public health, and the humanities during the European Year of Youth in 2022. Co-literate is a platform for young people and their caregivers, health providers, educators, and other key collaborators to advance equitable access to health-related information, decision-making, and care. Our projects provide young people with tools and spaces to explore, co-create, and test ideas for advancing their health and wellbeing. The initiative is driven by our goal to provide safe and empowering experiences for young people as they explore difficult themes around their health and wellbeing. We use the concept of co-literacy to encourage and enable collaborative understanding, evaluation, and action to address gaps and barriers in communication and information efforts. We aim to match young people's needs and expectations with effective interventions by cultivating connection, communication, and collaboration. Our team has been actively involved in local and international youth projects, and as young professionals, we decided to set up a for-purpose youth organisation to operate as managers and partners in meaningful youth participation projects and activities. Our expertise and interests are in health equity and human rights, civic participation, social inclusion, diversity and minority issues, antidiscrimination, gender equality, and similar topics.
Our values and principles
We see diversity as an asset and welcome perspectives, ideas, and expertise that broaden our scope of work and research. Our activities are carried out with respect to our four core principles:
For, with, and
by youth
Diversity
matters
Co-creation
is key
We care for
compassion
Relevant experience
Our team has participated in Erasmus+ projects on gender equality and mental health and is currently developing projects within these frameworks with new partners. We believe that we as young people are the experts in topics related to our own lives, health, and wellbeing. That is why we as an organisation aim to facilitate shared spaces for youth experiences and perspectives that advance equity, health, and wellbeing through co-design and compassion. We are curious to learn about the challenges and solutions presented by the next project – it could be yours! Our organisation has experience in carrying out projects and consultancies (non-Erasmus) and has coordinated youth projects in various areas. Health and equity are our current key focus areas, although we have experience in gender, sports, inclusion, arts, and other topics. We are always interested in how the topics work together to improve skills, knowledge, and (health) literacy. We collaborate with other European NGOs, national higher education institutions, international experts in health and education, and small-scale businesses who support our activities and purpose. Our ambition is to create both short-term and lasting partnerships that support our youth activities and alliances.
Scope of our work
Previous activities and projects have provided the required experience to collaborate and make an impact in a multinational environment. With youth health and wellbeing at the centre, our scope of work includes mental health awareness, health in education (including mental health curricula, sexual health education, health and medical literacy, social determinants of health), gender equity, physical health, and sports.
Our work is always framed within participation and social inclusion, which is why we focus on non-formal education, participatory research design, developing methods for youth participation, co-creation workshops (social labs), and peer-to-peer training, exhibitions, or materials.
We are currently in the early phase of scaling the organisation. Five key volunteers coordinate the flow of projects, partnerships, and applications, while a larger number of participants run our labs and other youth activities. Volunteers and participants are recruited as new projects take place and the specific call for youth expertise, experience, and perspectives is defined.
Quality and evaluation
Our projects build on models of assessment and co-creation design that ensure quality delivery and evaluation of interventions. The methodology is continuously tested when working with youth groups in various and diverse contexts.
We collaborate with stakeholders in education, health policymakers, and academics through participatory action research and validated co-creation processes.
Will we include participants with fewer opportunities?
In every project, we expect to include 1-2 participants with previous or existing experiences of social inequity and/or living with physical or mental health conditions. It is of ethical interest to involve youth with lived experiences, and therefore, initial recruitment will open the space for participants with fewer opportunities to voluntarily join and contribute to the project. As an ethical concern, it will be important that participation causes no harm and that the participants’ conditions, needs, and perspectives are considered and respected throughout the project.
Expertise of our team
Key persons involved in the project will be our group of young professionals, who are involved in national and international programmes. They have a strong educational basis and know the value of collaborating with people coming from different cultural and social backgrounds. Project coordinators will be selected based on interests, previous experience, and competencies so we always have the right team members carrying out the project. We want to make sure that we match projects with people and expertise. We are enthusiastic and experienced in our unique ways, and we are curious and excited to get to know your team too! We will provide detailed descriptions of relevant team members and their competencies upon request. The project participants are young people aged 15-30 years from selected youth groups, collaborating organisations/schools, or higher education institutions. They form flexible project groups around common interests and projects. They usually have common interests in health promotion and communication and the topics of issues of access to care, equal opportunities, physical health, body issues, mental health, misinformation, equity, gender, digital health, etc.
