MAP the GAP: Ways of enhancing youth participation in local communities Erasmus Project

Project Title

MAP the GAP: Ways of enhancing youth participation in local communities

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 : Capacity Building for youth in neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Map the Gap: Ways of enhancing youth participation in local communities is the project tha taims to bring together eight countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Italy, Montenegro, Poland and Slovenia) coming from Western Balkan and EU to investigate the issues related to tools of enhancing youth participation in local communities. Understanding growing use of new technologies by youth and following the processes of globalisation we are adapting channels of communication directly to youth in every participating country. Relaying on great usage of social media by youth we are creating direct communication which will enable them to use new technologies responsibly and with great influence on their local community.Technology – specifically ICT – has played a central role in young people’s rise to prominence on a global scale. It has helped them mobilize, collaborate and given them a voice where there was none before. It has brought them together in response to social concerns. It has connected them across vast geo-political barriers. However, young people are increasingly earning recognition from governments and the international community as powerful agents of change whose inclusion in political and social life in the community is vital to improving democratic process.This project is bringing together youth councils and youth organization working in a field of youth policy to investigate the possibilities of common work of IT and youth sector and to develop new tool that youth, youth councils and organizations can use within their work. Several well structured activities are designed in order to achieve the aims: coordinators meeting, international workshops, creation of the guides on HOW TO run and fundrise for civic initiative, training course, international workshop focusing on hackathon, creation of the web and phone application, local promotions, youth and youth organizations engagement, local interventions, conference and evaluation meeting. All activitis will be implemented in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey for 18 months!

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 58169 Eur

Project Coordinator

UDRUZENJE VIJECE MLADIH FEDERACIJE BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE & Country: BA

Project Partners

• ZONA FRANKA
• CRNOGORSKI OMLADINSKI FORUM
• ZDRUZENIE MLADI EVROPSKI FEDERALISTMAKEDONIJA KUMANOVO
• TOY GENCLIK DERNEGI
• OMLADINSKI SAVJET REPUBLIKE SRPSKE
• UDRUZENJE NARODNI PARLAMENT
• MLADINSKI SVET SLOVENIJE