Democracy Reloading Webinars on youth participation in municipal decisions in 2024
Do you want to know better how to involve young people in municipal decision-making? Are you working as municipal youth policy officer or youth worker supporting municipal youth participation?
Description
The Democracy Reloading Partnership is organising four webinars in 2024. Each webinar is focusing on one of the 4 key tasks that ensure a more successful implementation of youth participation in municipal decision-making, you can read further details about the four focus topics below.
Each webinar will be 90 minutes long and will include a presentation of practice of a local municipal youth policy officer and an introduction to one of the key tasks to be impemented for better success based on the Democracy Reloading online Toolkit.
You can register for the webinars if you click on APPLY NOW. Aftrer each webinar the call and its application form will reopened with a new deadline until the following webinar, allowing the registration of new participants for the upcoming webinars.
Few days before the each webinar all the registered participants (from the eligible countries) will receive a reminder with the zoomlink.
THE SPECIFIC TOPICS AND DATES:
1. ADVOCATE4YouthParticipation - on how to convince your decision-makers and how to change the organisational attitude inside the municipal authority
8th May 2024 at 14.30-16.00 CET
Focus questions of this webinar: What are the benefits of engaging young people in municipal decisions? What can you do to change the attitude of the different key people within the municipal authority? How to build up your stakeholder group in support of youth participation? What are the initial questions that the municipal authorty must answer before reaching out to young people?
Invited guest: tbc
Facilitators: Dorka Vaczi (Hungary), Mateusz Hoffmann (Poland)
2. The (HE)ART of Participation - on how to find, emopower and engage young people in municipal decisions
19th June at 14.30-16.00 CET
Focus questions of this webinar: Where to find the right young people to be involved? How to ensure representativity and inclusion of less privileged youth? How to empower young people to be able to give their voice and influence municipal decisions? How to motivate them and keep them engaged? How to supprt them in their further carrier?
Invited guest: tbc
Facilitators: Dorka Vaczi (Hungary), Mateusz Hoffmann (Poland)
3. What strategy and what structure? - on how to design adequate youth partivipation strategy and structure for municipal youth participation
25th September 2024 at 14.30-16.00 CET
Focus question of this webinar: How to build and optimize youth participation trategy that ensure sustainable and meaningful youth participation in municipal decisions? How to prepare an efficient strtategy that is shared by all stakeholders? How to design the youth participation structure that fits both for municipal decision makers and the young people involved?
Invited guest: tbc
Facilitators: Carolina Lourerio (Portugal), Kamil Stanos (Poland)
4. Be the change you want to see! - on how to manage youth participation in municipal decision-making every day
6th November 2024 at 14.30-16.00 CET
Focus topics of this webinar: What are the minimum financial conditions your municiplality has to provide each year? How can you use Erasmus+ grants to develop your youth participation? How can you manage the coolaboration between municipal decision makers and young people? How and what can you show to the wider public about youth participation?
Invited guest: tbc
Facilitators: Carolina Lourerio (Portugal), Kamil Stanos (Poland)
We can provide a proof of attendence for each webinar and we will provide a Democracy Reloading Webinars certificate for those who attended all 4 webinars in the end of the year.
Accommodation and food
No accommodation as online course.
Participating countries
Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries, Partner Countries Neighbouring the EU
Working language
English
Participation fee
No participation fee.
Travel reimbursement
No travel required.
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