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Good Practices and Case Studies of Youth Engagement
Good Practices and Case Studies of Youth Engagement

Climbing the Ladder: fostering a culture of Youth Engagement

“Good Practices and Case Studies of Youth Engagement” is the second publication of the project “Climbing the Ladder: fostering a Culture of Youth Engagement”. The publication takes a deep dive into 18 examples of models and mechanisms that successfully foster youth participation in decision-making processes from around Europe. Ranging from youth councils, youth delegates, youth banks and youth parliaments, analysing how these models promote inclusivity, diversity and youth participation. This publication serves as a resource and inspiration for enhancing youth participation in decision-making processes touching on the local, regional, national and international levels. These examples range from consultation mechanisms that seek young people’s input on policy decisions to more advanced forms of shared decision-making, where young people work alongside policymakers as equal partners in shaping the future.

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Digital Participation Tools for youth engagement in local governance

Digital Participation Tools for Youth Engagement in Local Governance

Digital tools can be used to support the already existing structures and processes of youth participation or incentivize e-participation in online environments or a combination of both that can be complementary. Therefore, a European consortium led by DYPALL Network has decided to conduct this Study on digital participation tools for youth engagement in local governance in order to collect practice examples of digital tools that strengthen youth participation in decision-making processes at the local level.

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Guidelines for Using Digital Games and Gamification in Youth Work

Game+

This publication aims to provide youth workers with methods and tools to use digital games or tools to gamify their working methods. It will shed some light on existing educational games and gamification practices from different countries, present easy-to-use tools to gamify learning experiences and highlight key challenges and significant benefits of using this method in youth work. It is the result and the 1st Intellectual Output of the project GAME+: Gamification and Access for Millennials in Erasmus+, developed by four non-governmental organisations: Bangherang APS (Italy), Center for Youth Activism CYA KRIK (North Macedonia) and DYPALL Network (Portugal), under the coordination of Europe4Youth (Poland) and is financed by the Polish National Agency for Erasmus+ Programme.

Manuals & Toolkits
#EUInfluencers – Toolkit for influencers

#EUInfluencers

This Toolkit aims to support young people in being EU Influencers towards their peers by increasing their understanding of the EU, developing critical thinking and combating fake news. Tackling the topics of EU and its structure, the impact of the EU on the local communities, how to tackle misinformation about the EU and combat fake news and how to transmit this information to other young people using peer learning and non-formal education methods. It was developed within the #EUInfluencers project that gives an active role to young people from Serbia, Italy, Croatia, Portugal and Sweden to be the influencers of EU towards their peers.

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Coworking spaces for social innovation – Study on good practices

Management systems of coworking spaces for social innovation

The publication presents 19 carefully selected practices mapped among coworking spaces from 9 countries with a focus on youth participation and entrepreneurship, boosting social entrepreneurship and positively impacting local communities.

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Mapping best practices of youth friendly cities

Mapping best practices for youth friendly cities

Based on extensive research on existing labels of youth friendly cities and good practices in different dimensions, this publications presents various solutions and examples to improve youth friendliness of a city, while voiding obstacles and possible risks.

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New forms of youth political participation Statistical survey

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.

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Perspective on Youth Participation

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.

Policies & Guidelines
Youth Participation Strategy

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.

Manuals & Toolkits
Youth Workers 2.0

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.

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The future of young people’s political participation: questions, challenges and opportunities

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.