EU Region Week: How to foster Youth Participation

Europe Goes Local will once again join the European Week of Regions and Cities. This time, we will join the round table “Youth participation, why should we care?” during the event “YOUTH PARTICIPATION – How to foster youth participation in local communities?”. The discussion will take place on the 25th of October at 10.CET. You can register here.

The other participants will be the city council of Altea, project VOLUNTEU: Volunteering citizens as a response to social COVID19 crisis, JINT, the municipality of Idrija, and the project Governance and Youth in the Alps. Europe Goes Local has also ran joint sessions in the past.

Invitation

Youth participation is key to the democratic and inclusive development of local communities. Join EU Region Week on 25th October at 10.00 CET to learn how to foster youth participation in practice.

The event “YOUTH PARTICIPATION – How to foster youth participation in local communities?” will highlight the importance of youth participation for the development of local communities, showing approaches and funding opportunities available. It’s a follow-up event of the “Getting more children and young people participating in the workings of democracy: success stories” event, organized by DG JUSTICE and EACEA during the EU Week of Regions and Cities.

Agenda

• 10.00 – 10.10: Introduction
• 10.10 – 10.40: Youth participation, why should we care?
  • Round table with showcases (City council of Altea, Spain – project VOLUNTEU: Volunteering citizens as a response to social COVID19 crisis; JINT, Belgium – Europe goes local; Municipality of Idrija, Slovenia – project Governance and Youth in the Alps).
• 10.40 – 11.20: How can we work together? Approaches and funding opportunities to foster youth participation on a local level.
  • We will work together to find new ideas, synergies between existing local initiatives, ways of funding new ideas, and ways to capitalize results of past work.
• 11.20 – 11.30: Final findings

The debate will be moderated by CERV točka, Slovenian national contact point of programme CERV.

For additional information please write to cerv-tocka@pina.si.

You can register here.

You can find the pdf with the invitation here.