"GOOD PARTICIPATION - BETTER COMMUNICATION"

Duration of the project: From October 2007 till March 2009
Partnership: Partner 1 (BENEFICIARY) : Jugend und Familienstiftung des Landes Berlin (jfsb) (Austria), Foundation under public law

- Partner 2: Drehscheibe Kinder und jugendpolitik Berlin - private foundation (Germany) -
- Partner 3: Jeugd en Stad vzw (JES) - NGO (Belgium)

How did you come up with the idea?

"For many years "jfsb" has been supporting projects in 2 areas:
1) promoting media skills among children and yong people
2) strengthening participation of youngsters.
The foundations are already used to collaborating with many partners in the network and the JES and Drehscheibe partnership is only an example.
Thus the idea uniting participatory youth work and media education in a project was born."

Brief description and aim of the project:

"The main objective of our project is to design a child and youth friendly city with newly designed public spaces by and for young people. Special attention will be paid to young people with migration backgrounds.
Participants will develop and implement projects according to their needs. The political aims of these guidelines are: good participation - better communication"

Objectives:

- favorise bilateral exchange of ideas and experiences through workshops and meetings;
- raise awaireness within policy and public administration for participation and to support local structures/projects in public participation;
- find skills to improve for young people every day living conditions;
- develop better opportunities for social integration and active participation in their surroundings;
- open public spaces giving young people the opportunity to get actively involved in democratic and social processes which influence their living conditions;
- elaborate media products for facilitating communication with political decision makers as well as between the different project groups to promote better understanding;
- develop new concepts for the future
- elaborate media supports.

Strong points of the project:

For the first time, two areas of youth work get together: participation and media education
The project uses existing youth projects and helps them in their work
The project helps young people to communicate their interests to third parties
The project promotes media-competences and thereby strengthens the opportunities to participate in the democratic processes of society.

Financement:

Total amount : 50 495€
27 500€ Youth in Action programme
21% jfsb + drehscheibe
19% JES