Empowering Youth Participation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Empowering Youth Participation

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Project “Empowering Youth Participation” is KA2 strategic partnership which creates opportunities to exchange good practices in the field of youth participation. The project will start on the 1st of July, 2020 and will last for 7 months. The project will be implemented by partners from Norway, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Poland.

This project will provide access to quality youth policy implementation methodologies and approaches from Lithuania. Lithuania, in less than three decades of independence, has developed a lot of good practices in the field of civic participation and citizen engagement. The well-developed (and institutionalized in the laws and strategies) youth participation structures and work of the government and NGO’s n the field of youth participation makes Lithuania a good example to learn from.

Aim of the project: Share the Lithuanian youth policy implementation model at the international level, as the European success story of efficient youth participation.

Objectives of the project:
1. Introduce participants with Lithuanian systemic approach towards youth participation.
2. Analyze challenges and barriers for youth participation in 6 project countries and develop strategies on how to overcome them.
3. Understand Lithuanian local and national level youth participation and co-management structures.
4. Develop plans on how to empower young people to participate in various fields of the society.
5. Create opportunities for young people to participate by using the cross-sectoral approach, evidence-based policy-making and using means of advocacy.

Activities of the project:
We plan to implement 2 educational activities in the framework of the project. Firstly, a 5 day Study visit “Youth participation structures in Lithuania” which will gather 28 participants from 6 project countries. Secondly, a Training course “Youth participation: policy-making, advocacy and research”. It will be a 6-day training course providing civil servants, youth workers, young politicians, and youth leaders competencies needed to foster youth participation at the local level.

The project will create the following results:
56 youth workers, civil servants, young politicians and youth leaders will be trained in the frame of this project. After the study visit and the training course, they will be able to foster youth participation by institutionalizing best practices from Lithuania and other partner countries.

Best practices on youth participation from Lithuania and other project countries will be described and disseminated among partner network and their local and international networks.

Recommendations for using good practices in youth participation will be developed by the project consortium.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59163 Eur

Project Coordinator

POLITIKOS TYRIMU IR ANALIZES INSTITUTAS & Country: LT

Project Partners

• Viesites novada pasvaldiba
• Youth Society for Peace and Development of the Balkans, YSPDB
• FUNDACJA NA RZECZ WSPIERANIA INNOWACJI SPOLECZNYCH IDEA LAB
• Institut za mladinsko politiko, Ajdovscina
• MITTETULUNDUSUHUNG PROGRESS CENTER
• Medvirkningsagentene