Youth participation – from small steps to big achievements Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth participation – from small steps to big achievements

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Youth initiative project “Youth Participation – From small steps to big achievements“ is long-term International strategic partnership project. Aim of the project is to increase involvement of young people in decision-making process. We find that young people are not involved enough in basic decision-making processes.
Nowadays representative democracy is more and more developed, but there is also participatory democracy, which is also important or perhaps even more important. In local level it is essential to involve organizations and individuals to increase democracy, but it is common that there is lack of knowledge about these methods. During the project young people can learn methods, which helps to involve also young people in decision-making process. These methods are based on partners experiences in their countries.
“From small steps to big achievements” will put together 5 partner countries, who will share, teach and analyze methods that are used in involvement of young people in decision-making processes at local level. During 13 months participants will put 5 these methods in to practice. There will be 4 international meetings – one is meeting of contact persons and three others are participants study-and analysis meeting. First two are organized in Estonia and during these meetings other countries can get to know Estonian young people participation field. The last two are organize in Macedonia and Hungary.
This project will raise awareness and teach participants different methods and possibilities to involve young people in the decision-making process, will create a strong and competent network of youth leaders and will provide a guide, that can be shared and used to improve involvement of young people in decision-making processes.
This project is small step closer to get young people more involved in local level decision-making processes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 38435 Eur

Project Coordinator

MTÜ Noored Toredate Mõtetega & Country: EE

Project Partners

• ICM Jindrichuv Hradec z.s.
• Obedineta Mladina
• Stowarzyszenie Inicjatyw Mlodziezowych
• PLANET DESIGN Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató Bt.