Final press resales for NEUEYT project was created this week by the project leader Glocal Factory. The PR text summarize the most important outcomes from the Initiatives that were created, partners involved and provides insight into the achievement and numbers behind the success of NEUEYT events and activities. Additionally, the PR text presents the framework and the policy report who were created during the project as one of the most valuable outputs.
You can read the full Prese Release on the link below!
Check out the latest news and updates of our NEUEYT project where we will present you our latest output the POLICY REPORT. The partners from Poraka Nova created the latest edition of NEUEYT Newsletter which will inform you about how the Policy report was developed.
The NEUEYT policy report is based on initiatives for youngsters, stakeholders, policy makers, local communities, and youth organizations. This document is an outcome of the NEUEYT project which proposes to work on innovative initiatives for the enforcement of active citizenship and democratic participation among youngsters 16-20, particularly underrepresented in policy making decisions, with regard to those living in remote/rural areas.
The Policy recommendations are built on the collective experiences of the initiatives and the input from the stakeholder-tables.
The Policy recommendations aims at capitalizing all the results gained during the implementation of initiatives, concerning the development and testing of the framework and all the deliverables and outcomes generated by the testing phase. An international laboratory and the mobility of youngsters and policy makers have supported, through engagement, the quality impact of the deliverables. The tested framework has been finetuned for future sustainability and transferability.
Trikala’s Youth Council with the support of the Municipality (Mr. StefanosVavylis, who is an elected Municipal representative and Mr, Michalis Lappas, who is the Vice Mayor of Education, Sports and Culture supported the youth council throughout this process), organized a very interesting event on the 12 of May 2023. Taking into consideration that the Greek National Elections will take place on the 21st of May, the youth council had a Parliamentary debate.
6 Representatives from 6 different political parties participated and were asked to give answers on questions prepared by the youth council and addressed by them during a discussion that lasted more than 3 hours.
Some of the topics that the youth council addressed are the following:
Thoughts and political framework on the existing admitting system for youngsters to enter Universities
Policies regarding the very high rent prices incities that house the country’s universities
In relation to the mental health issues that plague young people, inside and outside the school units. What policies are they considering to carry out towards this problem?
Policies towards resolving the problem of the undermine of the drama school of the national theatre graduates.
Young graduate’sunemployment in the city of Trikala has been galloping for several years. What are they thinking of doing to reduce unemployment among the city’s youth so they feel safe living in our city? Are they thinking of any interventions to solve the problem of unregistered/ black market employment?
Some of the effects of climate change in the region are an increase in fires and water scarcity. What policies do they plan to pursue in the direction of climate neutrality?
Since the period of the pandemic (Covid-19), the phenomenon of significant drug shortages has been observed. Thought and actions about possible ways to solve such a serious issue?
Some of the problems faced by people with disabilities are difficulty in accessing public spaces, public buildings and means of transport, discrimination in the working environment and difficulty in finding work. In the context of improvement, are there any policies that they intent to implement?
Their position and thoughts towards the term femicide. Do they have in mind policies that will address this matter? Are they planning to take measures towards reducing the time it takes for judicial decisions to be made?
Are they thinking of ways to reduce the phenomenon of police arbitrariness in Greece?
Do they intend to increase the awareness of the local communities on the issues of the LGBT+ community and, at the same time, do they intend to legalize civil marriage and adoption for same-sex couples in Greece?
There is a great disillusionment of young people towards the country’s political system after the tragic train accident in Tempe. What do they have to say to convince all the youth to come and vote in this election and what pledges can they give to prevent something so tragic from happening again in the future.
It goes without saying that all 12 questions were to the point. None of the political representatives was informed in advance about the topics of the questions and each one had 1,5 minute to make his/ her statement.
The NEUEYT mobility took a teacher of English and civics and a 16 year pupil from Pau, France to HUB Nicosia, Cyprus, where they were welcome by the partners from this organization and Dora. There, they met members of e-Trikala (Greece) youth assembly as well as other pupils from Cyprus along with their teacher of English.
The morning was spent at the Youth Board of Cyprus, learning and exchanging about the various actions taken on a daily basis by the youth department to lead to youth empowerment. Then they went to Nicosia’s buffer zone – controlled by the UN- where the inhabitants of both parts of Cyprus can meet and share joint projects and activities.
After discovering the city, they got to exchange on their personnal experimentations of non-formal methods to implement participatory debates and active citizenship, which led to various projects : the Greeks found the 6 STEPS method useful in decision-making, and it gave way to awareness campaigns at Limassol high school, where the pupils chose to address the problem or the stress generated by the exams at school for instance. In France, the silent debates allowed everyone to have a say in the topics that were dealt with and the pupils decided to take steps and act in a more eco-friendly way at school.
Meeting in Nicosia was a great experience both for the adults and for the pupil, who could open up to the others, learn and share all together. The experience is not over since they are still in touch on the social networks !
Following the finalization of the 6 Steps initiative, HUB NICOSIA, E-Trikala, and PISTES SOLIDAIRES organized the final online transnational workshop where participants and stakeholders had the opportunity to share experiences from the implementation phase of the initiative. The most prominent element was the usefulness of the 6 Steps methodology to support group work and achieving common goals on topics that are relevant to each working group.
Moreover, lessons learned and challenges were discussed, and it was very interesting to realize how the initiative supported all participants to raise their voices on matters they believe in. For example, participants from Cyprus created three different intervention plans and organized different activities based on those plans, in which they invited more young people and more policymakers and stakeholders to participate. All participants felt a sense of achievement and were really proud of their work which signifies that they are open to use the methodology in the future.
