Meaningful Participation: Innovation in Youth Participation Repertoires for Community Building

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Summary of the Project

What does meaningful participation really look like? Beyond being present or consulted, how can participation become a lived experience of belonging, shared responsibility and collective care?

This project invites young people from diverse contexts to explore participation as a community-building practice. Together, we will reflect on how youth participation can move from isolated actions to sustained collective processes that strengthen relationships, trust and long-term engagement.

Through sharing experiences from our local realities, participants will explore existing participation repertories, identify their limits and potentials, and co-create innovative ways of participating that place community at the centre. The training will focus not only on what we do, but on how we build spaces, make decisions together and remain connected over time.

Aim

To empower 26 participants to foster meaningful youth participation in their local contexts by expanding their repertory of participatory practices oriented towards community building, inclusion and social cohesion.

Objectives

• To understand the conceptos of peace, violence, human rights, conflict and conflict transformation
• To deepen the understanding of meaningful participation and its relationship with community building, belonging and care.
• To explore youth participation as a relational, process-based and collective practice.
• To map local community needs and challenges that can be addressed through innovative participation repertories.
• To identify, exchange and co-create participatory practices that strengthen youth communities at the local level.
• To design and present at least six local follow-up actions focused on reinforcing community bonds and active participation.
• To build a sustainable European network for cooperation, mutual learning and support among participants and organisations.