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

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

Thematic Networking of Twinned Towns – EUROPEAN CONFERENCES

Summary

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 565 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 is 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, will discuss 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 will be 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 Bruxelles it will be 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