ONLINE SEMINAR ON DISCUSSING YOUTH PARTICIPATION: HOW TO ENGAGE YOUNG CITIZENS?

How to increase cooperation with young people and involve them in decision-making processes? 

If you are a representative of a local authority, youth centre, or a youth organisation and you would like to find a possible answer to this question, we are inviting you to an online international seminar about youth participation titled “Discussing youth participation: How to engage young citizens?”. The online seminar will be held on the 23rd of July 2025, from 10.00 to 13.00, on the ZOOM platform.  

The seminar is organised as part of the ADD Something Meaningful project and follows years of PiNA’s work on encouraging young citizens’ engagement in the local environment with concrete proposals, matching their desires and the community’s needs. 

The seminar aims to present different good practices of youth engagement and some concrete opportunities for municipalities to develop project ideas. 

PROGRAMME:

• 10.00-11.00 IDEATHON – a methodology for the engagement of the youth (PiNA, Municipality of Murska Sobota and Municipality of Piran, Slovenia)
• 11.00-11.30 How to implement the participatory budgeting for youth – presentation of a good practice (Municipality of Cascais, Portugal)
• 11.30-12.00 Presentation of the Participatory Index and why it is important to measure the engagement of the youth (Foundation Ana & Vlade Divac, Serbia)
• 12.00-13.00 Finding the opportunities: Presentation of the CERV calls, Network of towns and Town Twinning (PiNA – Slovenian National Contact Point for CERV programme)

REGISTRATION:
Please register by the 21st of July. Register HERE. 

For additional questions, please contact the project coordinator, Kristjan Nemac, at: kristjan.nemac@pina.si.