PART-Y Participation and Youth: Lab for Equal Cities Erasmus Project

Project Title

PART-Y Participation and Youth: Lab for Equal Cities

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: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

Project Summary

Project title: PART-Y Participation and Youth: Lab for Equal Cities
Call Erasmus plus 2020 KA205

The project objectives are: 1: To strengthen youth involvement in European democratic life by promoting their right to the city, to public spaces from a “generation equality” and social inclusion perspective. – 2: To improve the innovation capacity in the activities proposed to young people and the internationalization of youth organizations in the countries participating in the project.

The project focuses its attention on young people (girls and girls between 13 and 20 years) to trigger their participation in civic life by promoting their inclusion in the decision-making process and linked to the concept of “generation equality”. This concept has been introduced by the United Nations agency UN Women to promote equal opportunities starting from the youngest.

The project will work with young people and youth workers in city public space participative design, in two youth centres owned by the Municipalities of Trieste and Koper (PAG and CMK) to strengthen their role in involving young people in public life.

The urban dimension of the project is also expressed by the exchange of good practices between cities, organizing field visits in Koper, Cork, Madrid, Trieste, Umea. Cities have a crucial role and an advantageous position in supporting change at the local level, shaping the daily life of citizens and citizens through the proximity of the service they provide.

Matched with the field visits, he project develops 4 SHORT JOINT STAFF TRAINING for project partners and youth sector operators to back up the implementation of LOCAL WORKSHOPS (24 in total) which will take place in Trieste and Koper (PAG and CMK).

This learning process (both for youth, youth workers), led by project partners skills and external expertise, will deliver two intellectual outputs:
IO1 PART-Y Toolkit: how to build a communication campaign for a young and inclusive placemaking
IO2 PART-Y: Learning methodology of placemaking through design thinking

Events of dissemination of the project outputs will be organized in Koper, Trieste, Cork and Strasbourg.
The project will make these open source outputs available to public authorities and organizations that work with young people as a tool for involving young people in participatory planning processes in public spaces and committing them to public life participation.

The project partners are:
Kallipolis Trieste www.kallipolis.net – applicant
ALDA Strasbourg https://www.alda-europe.eu/newSite/
Basurama Madrid https://basurama.org/
CMK Koper – no web site available
Cork City Council
Municipality of Trieste
Municipality of Umea
PiNA Koper https://www.pina.si/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 199084 Eur

Project Coordinator

KALLIPOLIS & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Comune di Trieste
• BASURAMA ASOCIACION
• CORK CITY COUNCIL
• KULTURNO IZOBRAZEVALNO DRUSTVO PINA
• Zavod za mladino, kulturo in turizem Koper
• ASSOCIATION DES AGENCES DE LA DEMOCRATIE LOCALE
• UMEA KOMMUN