The project YOUrban LAB - Urban regeneration LABoratories to promote YOUth active participation and community social development, has as OVERALL OBJECTIVE to build a strategic partnership among youth centres based in three Mediterranean countries, improving their capacities to address young people needs, especially those with fewer opportunities and in marginalized local contexts. The project has two specific objectives: the FIRST SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE (1) is to promote active citizenship and participation practices among young people and their commitment in the community social development in the urban areas they belong to; the SECOND SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE (2) is to encourage social change and the involvement of the local communities, spreading European values and strengthen European dimension at the local level through practices of urban requalification and regeneration.
This project aims to promote civic engagement and social development among disadvantaged European youths living in marginalized urban areas through urban art and regeneration practices. The goal is to encourage participation in the social and democratic life of their communities, and for young people to become active agents of positive change. By rethinking and caring for their public spaces, they can build new dynamics in their relationship to their surroundings. The project provides non-formal and informal education methodologies to stimulate social and cultural growth, and the youth centers involved in Italy, Greece, and Spain will have the opportunity to share their experiences and promote mutual growth. Ultimately, the project seeks to empower young people to become recognized as positive change makers in their societies.