The project aims to enable young people to understand, practice, and influence youth participatory budgets across European cities. The objectives are to further knowledge of already existing practices in youth participatory budgets combining the research, policy, and youth work practices; to create and put in place local policy mechanisms for participatory budgets; to develop capacity of educators to provide quality non-formal educational activities for young people on topics of youth participatory budgets; to enable local authorities to put in practice youth participatory budgets using big data while addressing digital transformation; and to ensure sustainability of project results by developing community of practitioners from across Europe. The activities will comprise Management and quality assurance (WP1); “Food for Thought”: Recipes, The Fair, The Cookbook (WP2); YUPAD Calculator and Training Curricula for Educators and Policymakers (WP3); Capacity Building for Youth, Educators and Local Authorities (WP4); and Policy and Sustainability (WP5). The results will shed light on capacity and skills of young people raised; capacity of educators to provide quality activities for young people on topics of youth participatory budgets; capacity of local authorities to put in practice youth participatory budgets using big data tools; advanced long-term cooperation between key stakeholders in all partners’ countries; political level cooperation and recognition of youth participation on local level paving the way for a systematic change towards the implementation of innovative participatory budget solutions. The impact will be directly measured on targeted groups during the project activities and indirectly on other stakeholders targeted only by communication, dissemination, networking, and sustainability activities. There will be a short impact during the project duration, which will also have effects in the medium and long-term (2 and 5 years afterward, respectively)
The project aims to enable young people to understand, practice, and influence youth participatory budgets across European cities. The objectives are to further knowledge of already existing practices in youth participatory budgets combining the research, policy, and youth work practices; to create and put in place local policy mechanisms for participatory budgets; to develop capacity of educators to provide quality non-formal educational activities for young people on topics of youth participatory budgets; to enable local authorities to put in practice youth participatory budgets using big data while addressing digital transformation; and to ensure sustainability of project results by developing community of practitioners from across Europe. The activities will comprise Management and quality assurance (WP1); “Food for Thought”: Recipes, The Fair, The Cookbook (WP2); YUPAD Calculator and Training Curricula for Educators and Policymakers (WP3); Capacity Building for Youth, Educators and Local Authorities (WP4); and Policy and Sustainability (WP5). The results will shed light on capacity and skills of young people raised; capacity of educators to provide quality activities for young people on topics of youth participatory budgets; capacity of local authorities to put in practice youth participatory budgets using big data tools; advanced long-term cooperation between key stakeholders in all partners’ countries; political level cooperation and recognition of youth participation on local level paving the way for a systematic change towards the implementation of innovative participatory budget solutions. The impact will be directly measured on targeted groups during the project activities and indirectly on other stakeholders targeted only by communication, dissemination, networking, and sustainability activities. There will be a short impact during the project duration, which will also have effects in the medium and long-term (2 and 5 years afterward, respectively)