YoungEU Project

Youth Over Pandemic: A New Idea of Civic Participaticion for the Future – YoungEU

Project Nr 101091344

Reference Program: Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) Network of Towns

Thematic Networking of Twinned Towns – EUROPEAN CONFERENCES

The project “Youth Over Pandemic: A New Idea of Civic Participation for the Future” is promoted by Union of Municipalities Valli del Patrì (Italy) with the aim to create a thematic Network of Towns for raising awareness about priority matters linked to the impact of COVID-19 on the future of EU by encouraging citizens, and particularly young people, to participate actively by helping them, to find their place in society and to contribute to build the new European Deal. The project wants to strengthen a strong fruitful cooperation between partner from Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Malta, Sweden, Czech Republic, Spain, Latvia and Bulgaria, with a huge European representativeness and a big geographical dimension. The project will involve more than 635 direct and 600 indirect participants, allowing them to meaningfully relate European policies to their social life and reality. Young people are important catalysts for the future of our continent and are a vulnerable part of societies in times of crisis. The main objective of the project was to involve Municipalities, local realities and CSOs, in a permanent consultation, which using effective, innovative and appropriate tools and approaches. Each participant during the conferences scheduled in 6 different Events around EU, discussed together the priorities of the new CERV Program, the main points of the European political agenda, animating the European debate in relation to the Digital Era, Green Deal, Europe more powerful in the world. The meetings were scheduled with the organization of public Agora, diffusion and exchange of best practices, comparison, round table, case studies, permanent working group and interactive workshops. During the last meeting scheduled in Prague it was presented the results of the permanent working group of the project summarized in a Final Dossier, in which there are the ideas and suggestion collected.

The YoungEU project saw the creation of 6 itinerant conference sessions, during which all the specific aspects of the topics covered were explored, developed and discussed. The first of the planned events took place in Malta from 15 to 18 March 2023, followed by an event in Posesti/Bucharest (Romania) from 15 to 18 June 2023.The third event was held in Italy from 20 to 23 September 2023, in the territory of the Union of Patrì. In November from 22 to 25 in 2023, the fourth event was held in Budapest and Holloko (Hungary). From 15 to 18 January 2024, the city of Zagreb in Croatia was the venue for the realization of the 5th event.From 21 to 24 April 2024 the YoungEU project was held in Prague (Czech Republic) where the thematic conference sessions concluded. 

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More information about the project you can find on:

http://www.circumvitae.it/youngeuproject.html

 

Partnership
Name of promoter	Country	Role in the project
Unione dei Comuni “Valle del Patrì”	Italy	Applicant
Antares Onlus	Italy	Partner
Asociación Sociocultural Luenda	Spain	Partner
Freguesia de Buarcos e Sao Juliao	Portugal	Partner
Holloko Municipality	Hungary	Partner
Institucia Regionalnych Aktivit Novohradu	Slovakia	Partner
Sverigeungerska Kvinnoförenid “Sissi”	Sweden	Partner
Latvian Association of Local and Regional Governments LPS	Latvia	Partner
Posesti Municipality	Romania	Partner
Siggiewi Local Council	Malta	Partner
Business & Professional Women CR, z.s.	Czech Republic	Partner
Social Inclusion	Greece	Partner
Association of Estonian Cities and Municipalities AECM	Estonia	Partner
Gmina Przygodzice	Poland	Partner
Municipality Troyan	Bulgaria	Partner
Udruga za promicanje aktivnog građanstva – ECHO	Croatia	Partner

 

EVENTS:

1. WP1 Malta

2. WP2 Romania

3. WP3 Italy

4. WP4 Hungary

5. WP5 Croatia

6. WP6 Czech Republic