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Youth-Muni Lab: Sharing Practices for Local Youth Participation

Name & Country: Adam, Czechia

Youth organization, Czechia

Topic: Local youth participation and cooperation with municipalities - participants from youth organizations and municipalities

Short Description:

The project aims to strengthen youth participation in local democratic life by collecting, sharing, and promoting successful examples of cooperation between young people and municipalities. Through interactive workshops, exchanges and public events, participants will explore how young people across different regions engage with local authorities, influence decision-making.

🟨 Activities (optional):

• Panel discussions with youth councils and municipal representatives

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Youth Participation Activities from ERASMUS+ Guide 2025

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Online version with links to EU Youth Goals, etc. at https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/programme-guide/part-b/key-action-1/youth-participation

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Solidarity Projects from the European Solidarity Corps Guide 2025 

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Project Title: YOUth Decide – Implementing Democracy Reloading Together

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Project Title: YOUth Decide – Implementing Democracy Reloading Together

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Name & country: Dominika, Municipality of Kielce, Poland

Topic: Youth Participation, Local Democracy, International Peer Learning, Capacity Building, Democracy Reloading

Short Description:

We are developing a 24-month Erasmus+ KA2 Youth project focused on implementing the Democracy Reloading approach in different local contexts through international collaboration, pilot actions with young people, and the co-creation of a practical educational tool for wider use.

The project begins with an inspiration & co-creation week in Kielce, Poland, where youth workers, municipality staff and youth representatives from all partner countries will:

* Learn about the Democracy Reloading principles and how they’ve been applied in Kielce,

* Share their local realities,

* Co-design the structure of a practical simulation tool to engage young people in decision-making (→ the YOUth Decide Simulation Pack).

This tool will be developed and tested throughout the project, with the involvement of local youth groups in each country.

Following this, each partner will:

* Run local pilot youth participation actions (forums, councils, consultations),

* Test and refine the simulation with real youth groups in schools, municipalities or youth centers

The second half of the project includes international Peer Learning Visits to each partner country, where we’ll visit the local pilots, test the simulation in action, exchange feedback, and improve the tool.

The project concludes with a final event and the publication of the YOUth Decide Simulation Pack - an open, ready-to-use educational tool for schools, NGOs, youth workers and local governments across Europe.

Activities (in brief):

- International kick-off & co-creation week in Poland  → Focus: Democracy Reloading inspiration + youth-led design of simulation framework

- Local youth participation pilots + testing of simulation draft

- 4 Peer Learning Visits  → Partners visit each other to see real actions + test/refine the simulation tool

- Final evaluation and public release of the Simulation Pack

Tangible Output (Result): YOUth Decide Simulation Pack

An interactive, ready-to-use tool for schools, NGOs and municipalities to run youth decision-making simulations (e.g. budget participation, local policy debates). Includes role cards, scenarios, workshop plans and reflection tools. Co-created and tested by youth in 4 countries.

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Project Title: Nordic Youth Council Camp

Name(s) & country: Camilla, Finland (Espoo) + Sweden/Norway/Denmark/Iceland

Topic: Fostering peer to peer learning about best practices in local youth councils

Short Description: Espoo youth council would like to collaborate with a local youth council in the Nordics with similar size/participation level to support peer to peer learning and share best practices

Activities (optional): co-designed and delivered in cooperation with youth, based on non formal education

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Empowering Young Voices in Local Democracy

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Empowering Young Voices in Local Democracy

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Name & Country: Audio Vrapi, Italy

Topic : youth participation in local decision-making processes.

Description: To empower young people in Taviano (and partner countries) to actively participate in democratic life, co-create solutions for their communities, and build sustainable dialogue with local institutions.

Create a permanent “Youth Lab” in Taviano as a space for civic dialogue and project co-design. Develop civic and democratic competences among young people.

Facilitate exchange of good practices on youth participation at European level.

Reach out to NEETs and underrepresented youth.

Duration: 8 months

Activities:

Local civic education workshops, participatory mapping, youth-led community actions (rights, institutions, EU values).

Online sessions or short exchanges with international partners.

Creation of digital tools for participation (apps, platforms, toolkits).

Social campaigns co-designed by youth.

Events:

Simulation of municipal councils or youth assemblies opened to the community.

Co-creation of a Shared Youth Policy Paper to present to the Municipality.

Creative labs: video, podcast, digital media for civic expression and engagement presented.

Digital storytelling and participatory communication campaigns.

Mobility involving young people from 4–5 countries, hosted in Taviano with openday event to present results to the community and local decision-makers.

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Project Title: Youth Participation in Espoo

Promoter(s) & country: Finland (Espoo) open to participants from all partner countries

Topic: Capacity building for youth workers in youth participation

Short Description: Espoo city invites youth workers across Europe to learn and share best practices in youth participation and get to know Finnish system of youth work through visits, presentations etc

Activities (optional):

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Promoter (s) and country: Dimitris, Sara and Ralj. Cyprus, Italy and Bulgaria

Topic: youth participation in decision-making.

Short Description: The project is focused on training youth and policy makers in 3 cities of Bulgaria, Italy and Cyprus about youth participation in decision-making process.

1. National Training course for Youth in each country (in native language) = 1 group ages between 14-18

2. Transnational Mobility for youth = Activities: capacity building camp for youngsters, involved in the process.

3. Training course for policy makers in national level (in native language)

4. Transnational Mobility for policy makers = training course for policy makers and/or staff (more formal but with non formal education

5. Final Event with mobility, with participants of the past activities. (decision makers - good evaluated)

Duration: 24 months

Activities per month:

M 1 - Cooperation arrangement: Timeline planning.

M 2-3: Participants and trainers recruitment

Training courses planning. (3, one for each country)

M4: Mobility Planning (logistics and travel arrangements, agenda, recruit trainers)

M5: National Training course for youth (10-20)

M6: Evaluation of the National Training course

M7-8: Transnational Mobility Planning (City, participants (5-6 from each country)etc.)

M9: Transnational mobility for Youth in Italy (5-6 participants from each country)

M10: Evaluation on this

M11-12: National training course for policy makers (5-7)

Mobility (costi di viaggio pagati)

Event (100 euro per participant) se mobility (costi di viaggio)

60.000 in total (+ exceptional cost)

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Project Title: Youth Participation 1.0 (continuation)

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Project Title: Youth Participation 1.0 (continuation)

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Promoter (s) and country: Dimitris, Sara and Ralj. Cyprus, Italy and Bulgaria

Topic: youth participation in decision-making.

Short Description: The project is focused on training youth and policy makers in 3 cities of Bulgaria, Italy and Cyprus about youth participation in decision-making process.

1. Training course for Youth in each country (in native language) = 1 group ages between 14-18 and another group

2. Mobility for youth = Activities: capacity building camp for youngsters, involved in the process.

3. Training course for policy makers in national level (in native language)

4. Mobility for policy makers = training course for policy makers and/or staff (more formal but with non formal education

5. Final Event with mobility, with participants of the past activities.

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Project title:

Municipality Reloading: Multipliers for developed communities

Name & Country: Rachida, Tunisia/Morocco

Topic: Transfer through series of participatory workshops & roundtables followed by homeworks the knowledge, skills, and capacity to: - reflect on the poor situation of municipalities and their minimal focus / - The role we can play as youth to develop the status quo in municipalities as active players / - Build horizons for collaboration of youth as active contributors in and with the municipalities.

Short description: In response to the declining state of municipalities in Tunisia and their limited youth engagement, this initiative builds on the Democracy Reloading training to empower young people through participatory workshops and roundtables. It aims to raise awareness, foster critical reflection, and equip youth with the tools to become active municipal actors. By building a small but committed community, the project seeks to shift the status quo and spark long-term collaboration between youth and local governance structures.

Activities:

A series of workshops using informal education through which we focus on:

-- Role of youth in municipalities

-- How youth can be involved

-- The status quo and how we can change it

-- Skills ' like critical thinking ' and competences to ( approach the municipality, propose projects, discuss how we can change and improve, how to manage and move forward with projects..)

Series of roundtable to normalize discussions on the topic and share good practices and suggestions

Provide small homework when applicable

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Project title: Annual meeting of youth correspondents

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Project title: Annual meeting of youth correspondents

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Country: Spain ( Córdoba)

Topic: Generational change

Short description: create the space for training and experience exchange between new correspondents and the ones that are about to finish their mssion. It will take place in the youth hostel during 3 days. The youth will come from the region of Andalusia.

Activities: basic training about the correspondents' mission, information dissemination, networking, leisure activities. Methodology based on non formal education and activities designed with youth cooperation.

Event and mobility:

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Inclusive Outdoor Space in the Municipalities of Sefrou and Auderghem.

Names: Othmane and Sarah Touil

Topic: Creating an all-inclusive space that welcomes people transitioning from their childhood to their teenage years.

Short Description: Kids in their infancy until they're about to cross into their teenage years have plenty of facilities to exist in. Once they turn 13+ they don't have a place in which they can hang about. Therefore, it was crucial for an idea with kids from diverse backgrounds of all genders to be given birth to.

Activities:

The place's existence/making is going to be based on a shared diagnosis of the youth and municipal politicians of what the problems and solutions they see.

A session between the same stakeholders to codesign the space (what kind of workout, the youth needs, and how to ensure the gender equality in the space...)

Arrange an exchange of youth after the creation of the space in Sefrou and Auderghem to witness how both projects were achieved and explain the process.

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