Boosting youth participation in decision-making at the local level 3 - Study visit to Eindhoven

This Study Visit is designed for youth workers from local civil society organisations (CSOs) and municipalities from Finland, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, The Republic of North Macedonia and Turkey.

The Study Visit is part of the framework of the project “Boosting youth participation in decision-making at the local level 3” which aims to visit, analyze, experience and explore practices of youth participation in decision-making processes with a special focus on the inclusion of marginalized youth, such as young migrants and young people with a migrant background and especially to share practices that are already being implemented to adapt them to one’s own reality and reinforce existing programs

The Study visit will involve participants from all the project partner countries and will allow the capacitation of youth workers from CSOs and municipality offices to work together and observe specific projects on the involvement of young migrants in decision-making processes at the local level.

The study visit aims at being a space not only for learning, but also for sharing best practices on the involvement of young people in decision-making and increasing the understanding of how this participation can move from local, to regional, to national and finally to the European stage.

The specific objectives of the Study visit are to:

To explore, experience and understand the specific challenges in youth participation of young migrants and young people with a migrant background;

To visit examples of good practices, based upon interaction with the project organizations and to filter out elements to transfer to own reality;

To offer possibilities for long-term partnership building among organizations active in the field of youth participation at the local level, for future projects.