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Explore our selection of resources, publications, and tools dedicated to fostering youth participation and sustainable democracies.
From innovative projects to insightful publications, our catalogue provides valuable resources to empower young people and promote active engagement in democratic processes.
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2024
Study on structured youth engagement
The publication titled “Local Youth Councils – Analysis of Policy and Mechanisms” explores the role and effectiveness of Local Youth Councils (LYCs) in enhancing youth participation in decision-making processes across Europe. It compares the impact of LYCs in Estonia, Lithuania, Norway, and Portugal, analyzing their structures, challenges, and successes. The study provides recommendations and resources to improve youth engagement at the local level, aiming to foster more inclusive and impactful youth participation in governance. The analysis serves as a resource for policymakers, youth organisations, and LYC members.
2021
European Union - Council of Europe Youth Partnership
The survey, conducted by the EU-Council of Europe Youth Partnership, explores the evolving landscape of youth political participation. This report offers key insights into the preferences and engagement patterns of young people across Council of Europe member states. It comprises three sections, covering research methodology, findings on topics like information access and political involvement, and concludes with key takeaways for future study.
2020
Finnish Youth Research Network
This paper analyses why youth participation is considered important, how youth participation has been seen and what models have been created, and how youth participation is connected to different views about democracy. The paper also involves some critical remarks about how promoting youth participation could be made better.
SALTO Participation & Information
The document contains the strategy for enhancing youth participation in democratic life through the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes. The overall scope of the Youth Participation Strategy is to contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the EU Youth Strategy in fostering youth participation in democratic life as well as the European Youth Goals relating to youth participation by using the full potential of the Erasmus and ESC programmes.
External Resources
Source: Erasmus+ KA2
The booklet aims to provide youth workers with resources and good practices in the field of ICT, improving their knowledge of usage of different digital tools and making them understand what kind of skills are needed in different contexts.
2019
Youth Partnership of the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the field of youth
The compendium is an outcome of the symposium “The Future of young people’s political participation” (Strasbourg – September 2019) which presents various ways of young people’s engagement in political processes and decision making and how different stakeholders can contribute to encouraging, empowering and enabling young people’s participation.
Youth Democracy Academy
Source: DYPALL Network
The toolkit aims at giving multipliers all the tools needed in order to create a succesfull GOTV campaign within the Youth Democracy Academy project. In particular, the toolkit contains: European Union Factsheet, Facilitation Toolkit, Campaign Initiatives and Resources.
2017
DEEP-Linking Youth Project
The report explains the Digital Ecosystem for E-Participation Linking Youth (DEEP-linking Youth),approach to e-participation and how it can be used as an instrument to stimulate young people’sactive participation in democratic life, with the Digital Dashboard as our outlet for empowerment.
Toolkit
Source: European Youth Forum
The study includes a number of concrete recommendations on what political parties can do to improve their appeal among young people, and improve youth turnout in the elections. It can serve as a toolkit for political parties that wish to be better at including young people, promoting youth interests, and campaigning for young people