The Project

About the project

NEUEYT – Novel Framework for democratic participation and Engagement of Underrepresented European Youngsters aims at activating youth active citizenship and democratic participation, with special regards to youngsters in rural areas more in need of involvement, so as to engage proper dialogue with policy makers. A framework of tools are created so as to stimulate and enforce this jouvenile activation. On the other hand, decision makers are sensitised and given tools so as to become proper recipients of youth voices in their policy conception over the local communities they administer.

About the project

NEUEYT aims at activating youth active citizenship and democratic participation, with special regards to youngsters in rural areas more in need of involvement, so as to engage proper dialogue with policy makers. A framework of tools are created so as to stimulate and enforce this jouvenile activation. On the other hand, decision makers are sensitised and given tools so as to become proper recipients of youth voices in their policy conception over the local communities they administer.

Project objectives

  • Increasing the active participation in democratic life of under-represented youth targets, through blended approaches, new discussion/debate formats and innovative targeted languages;
  • Increasing the opportunities of youngsters, to be listened by stakeholders and policy makers at local, regional, national and to international level;
  • Testing new ways of blended participation of youngsters for innovating the panel of services provided by stakeholders and providers in the field of Youth according a sustainability perspective;
  • Promote the concept that youngsters should determine the future of Europe: increasing the general idea that investing on youngsters and on their trust in the institutions and the community, is crucial.

Project objectives

  • Increasing the active participation in democratic life of under-represented youth targets, through blended approaches, new discussion/debate formats and innovative targeted languages;
  • Increasing the opportunities of youngsters, to be listened by stakeholders and policy makers at local, regional, national and to international level;
  • Testing new ways of blended participation of youngsters for innovating the panel of services provided by stakeholders and providers in the field of Youth according a sustainability perspective;
  • Promote the concept that youngsters should determine the future of Europe: increasing the general idea that investing on youngsters and on their trust in the institutions and the community, is crucial.

Global framework of initiatives

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Research action

b

Recommendation and guidelines

Dissemination

Best Practice Collection

This report represents a collection of best practices focused on youth engagement and civic participation that partners have identified and described to create a common knowledge baseline on the topic. Besides the valorization of the direct expertise of the partner organizations and their network, an extensive desk research and an analysis has been conducted, even if according to a qualitative approach. As a result of this research action, we collected n. 30 best practices implemented in and outside Europe.

Global framework of initiatives

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. Its aim is to demonstrate the efficiency and positive results of the initiatives proposed by the project consortium.

Research action

Implementing the 8 core initiatives of the framework where each partner will deploy 3-4 of them. After the design of the framework of initiatives and actions for youngsters and policy makers so as to activate democratic participation, these initiatives have to be implemented and practically proven within the national contexts and in particular in the frame of local communities in each country.

Recommendation and guidelines

Recommendations and guidelines for policy makers and stakeholders: to valorise the democratic initiatives of youngsters. This action aims at capitalizing all the results gained during the implementation of the previous ones, The Global Framework and the Research action, concerning the development and testing of the framework and all the deliverables and outcomes generated by the testing its testing phase. The final output and realization is creation of the Policy Paper for youth engagement.

Dissemination

The purpose of the dissemination activities is not just to share information to the environment surrounding the consortium, or just to reach out to the identified beneficiaries of the communication action, but it also aims at stimulating discussion and raising awareness on the topic of youth digital and active democratic participation. Therefore, the dissemination activities will consist of a larger spectrum of initiatives compared to the simple sharing of project news.