Project title: PART-Y Participation and Youth: Lab for Equal Cities Call Erasmus plus 2020 KA205 The project objectives are: 1: To strengthen youth involvement in European democratic life by promoting their right to the city, to public spaces from a "generation equality" and social inclusion perspective. - 2: To improve the innovation capacity in the activities proposed to young people and the internationalization of youth organizations in the countries participating in the project. The project focuses its attention on young people (girls and girls between 13 and 20 years) to trigger their participation in civic life by promoting their inclusion in the decision-making process and linked to the concept of "generation equality". This concept has been introduced by the United Nations agency UN Women to promote equal opportunities starting from the youngest. The project will work with young people and youth workers in city public space participative design, in two youth centres owned by the Municipalities of Trieste and Koper (PAG and CMK) to strengthen their role in involving young people in public life. The urban dimension of the project is also expressed by the exchange of good practices between cities, organizing field visits in Koper, Cork, Madrid, Trieste, Umea. Cities have a crucial role and an advantageous position in supporting change at the local level, shaping the daily life of citizens and citizens through the proximity of the service they provide. Matched with the field visits, he project develops 4 SHORT JOINT STAFF TRAINING for project partners and youth sector operators to back up the implementation of LOCAL WORKSHOPS (24 in total) which will take place in Trieste and Koper (PAG and CMK). This learning process (both for youth, youth workers), led by project partners skills and external expertise, will deliver two intellectual outputs: IO1 PART-Y Toolkit: how to build a communication campaign for a young and inclusive placemaking IO2 PART-Y: Learning methodology of placemaking through design thinking Events of dissemination of the project outputs will be organized in Koper, Trieste, Cork and Strasbourg. The project will make these open source outputs available to public authorities and organizations that work with young people as a tool for involving young people in participatory planning processes in public spaces and committing them to public life participation. The project partners are: Kallipolis Trieste www.kallipolis.net - applicant ALDA Strasbourg https://www.alda-europe.eu/newSite/ Basurama Madrid https://basurama.org/ CMK Koper - no web site available Cork City Council Municipality of Trieste Municipality of Umea PiNA Koper https://www.pina.si/
- Strengthen youth involvement in European democratic life by promoting the right to the city and to public spaces with a perspective to social inclusion and "generation equality", introduced by the United Nations agency UN Women (https:// www.unwomen.org/en/getinvolved/beijing-plus-25) to promote equal opportunities starting from the youngest, focusing the attention of girls, boys and educators on the common spaces of the city as fundamental places of meeting and democracy, providing the tools to better understand their potential and to intervene on them. - Improve the innovation capacity in the activities proposed to young people and the internationalization of youth organizations in the countries participating in the project, offering opportunities to acquire skills on innovative participatory planning methodologies, experience an international context of experts and associations with great experience in this sector and broaden their national and international network of potential partners and collaborators, and making available work tools that can support their activities well beyond the conclusion of the project.
We have chosen to promote the involvement of young people in civic life by supporting their right to the city and to public spaces, as fundamental places of meeting and democracy. Young people are among the first users of public spaces but few of these spaces are designed with this group of citizens in mind. In particular, girls are among the most excluded, and especially from the age of middle school they tend to be increasingly less present and active in public places that appear to be mostly suited to boys’ tastes and habits, limiting girls’ right to the city. This situation is accompanied by the need for innovation in the activities offered to girls and boys by youth sector organizations and youth centres which in some cases present situations of stagnation and lack of new ideas in the construction of programmes of activities. We wanted to address this issue by providing young citizens and youth workers with new tools for involvement and activation, and for the construction of public places that are the real pulsating centers of their communities.