CALL for Partners Round 2 – 2017 Please find below some details about the activities for which we are applying for funding at the April deadline. STEP 1: Read the descriptions below STEP 2: Let us know you interest in participating by filling in this online form by FRIDAY 14 APRIL. STEP 3: We will get in touch with you by April 17, with details about the documents and information we need from you! STEP 4: Finger crossed for the applications to be approved!! Training Courses: Youth Actors in Decision Making – Italy Young Migrant Voices – Portugal Youth Takes the Floor – Portugal Study Visits: Local Youth Policies on Social Entrepreneurship -London, UK and Lisbon, Portugal Boosting Youth Participation at Local Level – Norway and Italy Others: North South Cooperation on Local Democracy – CEULAJ, Mollina – Spain 18 – 25 September, 2017 II DYPALL International Conference “Youth Work at Municipality Level” – Portugal, November 2017 Training Courses: KA1: Youth Actors in Decision Making – Acireale, Italy (3rd trimester, 2017) A five days training course that we recommend to all our Network members, since it allows to explore the basis of youth participation and to gain a deep understanding of youth participation and decision-making. It provides the tools for improving not only our understanding of the role of youth in shaping our communities, but it also allows to work on concrete models of cooperation among civil society and public authorities at local level. It provides a framework for developing quality local projects in partnership and collaboration between CSOs and public authorities. Back to top KA1: Young Migrant Voices: – Lisbon, Portugal (November, 2017) The course “Young Migrant Voices: a training course for boosting participation of young migrants in decision-making processes at local level” calls for the mobilisation of all those working with youth at regional and local level throughout Europe to better approach, involve and engage young people with migrant background, as no neighbourhood and no city is less affected by the hazard of forgetting its ever-growing population of migrant youth. Back to top KA1: Youth Takes the Floor: – Portimão, Portugal (December, 2017) This five day training course aims to allow youth leaders, youth workers, local and regional public authority officers dealing with youth to work together on developing the necessary competences to efficiently plan, implement, sustain and reform local participative structures such as local youth councils, youth forums and/or other spaces of permanent structured dialogue and co-management at the local level. It is recommended for CSOs and municipalities/regional authorities that have a basic understanding of what youth participation is (e.g. areas addressed in the Youth Actors in Decision Making Training Course) and want to start making concrete steps to allow youth to get involve in policy making at local and regional level, by creating instruments and structures to do so, or who want to reform and revise existing structures to make them more efficient and participatory. Back to top Study Visits: KA1: Local Youth Policies on Social Entrepreneurship, London, UK and Lisbon, Portugal (September & November, 2017) In todays’ society, there is a growing need to develop better strategies and mechanisms to support the development of an enabling environment at local level that supports and promotes youth entrepreneurship and the creation of jobs with and for young people. The study visits will allow to explore concrete practices on how local authorities in cooperation with CSOs and the business sector are bringing new forms of job creation that leads to cultural, economic and social development. The project will take place in two phases, one in England and the other one in Portugal. Back to top KA1: Boosting Youth Participation at Local Level: Norway and Italy (August & January 2018) This study visit will allow the exploration of concrete practices that are supporting young people to become active in decision making at the local level. It will allow to explore different realities of youth participation and to learn from concrete experiences. Participants will be able to see and compare practices as well as to work on how to transfer and adapt them to their municipality to reproduce lessons learned and implement them in their local realities. This project will take place in two phases, the first one being a study visit to Norway and the second taking place in Italy. Back to top Others KA1: Partnership Building Activity: North South Cooperation on Local Democracy – CEULAJ, Mollina – Spain, 18 – 25 September 2017 DYPALL Network will organise a Partnership-Building Activity (PBA) bringing together youth workers and local youth policy representatives to foster networking and cooperation within and across Mediterranean countries and establish a partnership for an effective and sustainable involvement of youth in decision-making processes. The partners will come together for 7 days during this seminar to debate, share ideas and exchange realities and good practices in terms of cooperation between civil society and local authorities in the region and give an impulse to Euro-Mediterranean collaboration in the fields of democracy, active citizenship and youth participation with concrete follow-up projects. We aim to contribute to building bridges between the two shores and establishing a strong and sustainable North-South cooperation in the fields of democracy, active citizenship and youth participation at local level which is of key importance as there is a growing recognition of institutions of the importance of investing in the younger generations at Euro-Mediterranean level. “Opening channels for political participation of youth is one of the most powerful steps the Mediterranean region can take” Federica Mogherini – March 2017 Back to top 7. KA1: II DYPALL International Conference “Youth Work at Municipality Level” – Madeira Island, Portugal, 6 – 10 November 2017 The II International Conference, in Funchal (Madeira Island, Portugal) will focus on the theme of youth policies and youth work at Municipality Level, with a specific focus on inclusion (NEETs, migrants, etc..). It is theNetwork’s flagship event for youth workers, youth leaders, young people and public officers from local and regional authorities that work with youth in their local realities. They will come together for 4 days to share debate and discuss about key policy fields to find ways to improve youth work at municipality level and increase youth participation on policy making at local and regional level. Back to top