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Youth Takes the Floor: a training course on how to increase youth participation in decision-making

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Training Course / 20-26 March 2022 | Braga, Portugal

The training course is an opportunity for youth leaders, youth workers and municipality officers from all Council of Europe member states to develop competencies to empower youth participation in decision-making processes.

During the training, the participants will be able to develop competencies to create and empower youth participation structures and instruments that enable young people to take an active part in decision-making processes at the local level.

Participants will have the opportunity to explore effective standards, models and structures for youth participation and develop a deeper understanding of the different realities, experiences and opportunities of the role of young people in the development and sustainability of our democracies. This way they will gain skills and knowledge to support young people in becoming competent and engaged citizens and that allow them to take an active role in decision-making processes that will influence their future.

The specific objectives of this Training are to:

  • identify and present different instruments and structures of and for youth participation in decision-making processes;
  • develop competencies of participants in implementing and creating such instruments and structures at the local level as youth policies, youth action plans, local youth councils and co-management;
  • create a connection and common understanding between the key stakeholders responsible for the field of youth at the local level;
  • capacitate youth leaders, youth workers and representatives of local authorities to implement digital solutions into their local realities;
  • create a local action plan developed by the participants that consist of representatives of local authorities and civil society organizations, to be implemented at their local level after the end of the training.

Available downloads: Call for participants.pdf

More information at: SALTO