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Explore the activities we organize to engage young people in local governance and decision-making. Our programs include workshops, training sessions, and community projects designed to empower youth and address their needs.
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from "Migrant Youth Friendly Cities" training course
Partnership Building Activity (PBA) “Youth participation for sustainable local democracies”
from Study Session "Youth Democracy Academy"
Winter Democracy Academy
Study visit “Innovation for Youth participation in EU Outermost regions
The study visit was organized within DYPALL Network’s framework from 6th to 10th May 2024 in partnership with the Center for Educational Innovation, Department of Education and Youth, of the City of Reykjavík, Iceland. The study visit aimed to explore innovative youth engagement practices and policies implemented in municipalities of Iceland, enhancing youth participation in democratic processes and empowering the network of youth work.
The Winter Democracy Academy Report highlights the critical role of youth in revitalizing democracy through innovative participatory mechanisms. This initiative provided a space for stakeholders to meet, debate, and cooperate on youth participation issues, emphasizing the importance of their contribution to sustainable societal development. It serves as a call to action for communities and policymakers to harness the potential of youth for a more inclusive and vibrant democratic future.
The Winter Democracy Academy International Conference, “Today’s Democracy Challenges,” focused on the critical issues surrounding democracy and citizenship, particularly emphasizing youth involvement. The conference facilitated discussions between young entrepreneurs, youth leaders, researchers, and public organization members. Key topics included the intricacies of democracy, youth empowerment in democratic participation, policy development, political pathologies, and democracy deficits. It also highlighted innovative tools and approaches for youth engagement, the role of youth centres in fostering cultural diversity, and strategies to bridge the gap between youth eagerness and institutional capacity in democratic processes.
The “Partnership Building Activity (PBA)” report, under the theme “Building Synergies for Sustainable Democracies,” details an event aimed at enhancing youth participation organized by the DYPALL Network in Lisbon, Portugal. The event brought together participants from various countries to discuss strategies for youth engagement in democracies. The report highlights the success of the event in fostering a network among youth workers and NGOs, sharing best practices in youth participation, and planning future Erasmus+ projects for sustainable collaborative youth initiatives across Europe.
CHLaYdoscope
The training aimed to explore innovative methodologies and tools that collaborate to transform community needs, opportunities, and ideas into valuable resources, fostering an entrepreneurial mindset.
Youth Democracy Academy
Gathering 30 young leaders across 20 countries, the study session aimed to empower participants with vital skills for implementing the “Educate for Democracy” training program. The event effectively advanced participants’ understanding of the importance of revitalising pluralistic democracy and young people’s access to rights and information, aligning with the Council of Europe’s goal of promoting active citizenship among the youth.
Migrant Youth Friendly Cities - A scale of reference
The International Training Course “Migrant Youth Friendly Cities: A Scale of Reference” brought together youth workers, municipality officers, and young individuals with migrant backgrounds from Sweden, Spain, Greece, and Portugal, who gained a comprehensive understanding of how integration strategies and policies profoundly influence the daily lives of young migrants and refugees. They also explored the Assessment Tool and Guidelines “Migrant Youth Friendly Cities”, tools for assessing and improving integration policies.
The activity report describes the main outcomes and results of the Partnership Building Activity (PBA) “Youth Participation for sustainable local democracies” in Mollina, Spain, within the framework of the University on Youth and Development. The activity aimed to create a space to exchange different realities, promote good practices, methodologies and tools and develop cooperation projects that link young people, environmental policies and local democracies. The PBA gathered 30 representatives of civil society organisations and municipalities who work on the topic of youth participation in decision-making at the local level from Latvia, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Romania, Denmark, Netherlands, Serbia, Poland, Armenia, North Macedonia and Portugal.
#EUInfluencers
The youth exchange gathered 27 young influencers from all participating countries to share the results of the #EUInfluencers project implementation in their local communities and to plan the steps ahead. The report outlines the events conducted throughout the exchange program and highlights the key results achieved.
Boosting youth participation at the local level 3
This report presents the Study visit to Eindhoven, “Boosting youth participation at the local level 3”, which happened in May. During the activity, 26 youth workers from CSOs and municipality officers coming from Latvia, Turkey, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Finland, North Macedonia, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, and Spain gathered to work together and observe specific projects on the involvement of young migrants in decision-making processes at the local level.