Youth for democratic participation in policy making for better employability. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth for democratic participation in policy making for better employability.

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 ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

This project aims at partner youth organizations’ activization in promoting direct youth democratic participation in policy making for better employability. Understanding all vital aspects of democratic youth representation and participation will enable youth organizations to become the forefront of influence and decision making, maintain the legitimacy of the processes and act as trained multipliers in National networks mainstreaming youth access to drafting employment policies. Partner youth and student councils from UK, Lithuania , Tajikistan and Turkmenistan working on the development of youth employability policies will research, exchange practices, undergo training and work together on encouraging youth participation in decision making / governing bodies and produce an action plan for local Peer campaigners to ensure understanding of the important processes that go in hand with accessing youth to decision making by wider networks of youth organizations and young people. Follow up and dissemination stage planning will allow for the emergence of new youth employability initiatives in local governments and public sector to represent youth interests. Each partner will be represented by an equal number of participants in every stage/phase of the project. The innovative feature of this project will be the use of new Erasmus + opportunities of long term influence to develop Youth Policy Dialogue between youth councils in EU countries (UK and Lithuania) and Partner countries (Tajikistan and Turkmenistan) and developing a pilot model of good practice for use of other partners. The trained peer campaigners will then produce an action plan to encourage young people from a wide spectrum of cultural backgrounds to find out what they can do if they want to take active part in building or maintaining participatory youth employment policies in their country and active youth participation in this process. With this project our partnership will also use the resources of the established youth councils to draft youth policies that introduce liaison practices with employers and inform about governmental employment schemes for young people experiencing lack of the information on future employment possibilities by creating info sections within our partner youth councils.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 150000 Eur

Project Coordinator

IVOLO LTD & Country: UK

Project Partners