Voice Up Co-creation Meeting  in Trikala

Voice Up Co-creation Meeting  in Trikala

In relation to the Voice Up Initiative, that the city of Trikala is currently implementing, E-TRIKALA organized a co-creation meeting with some of youngsters that have registered to implement this activity.

The meeting took place in the 1st EPAL Lyceum (https://1epal-trikal.tri.sch.gr/)  on 14th of April 2022. During this meeting we had the chance to discuss with the youngsters about Voice Up initiative and brainstorm potential ideas and concepts that each group could use to create a video or other digital art.

Agenda of the Meeting:

  • Warm up activity
  • About Voice up
  • Walkshop and brainstorm
  • Chill out activity
Self Advocacy Influencer Initiative Open Calls are here!

Self Advocacy Influencer Initiative Open Calls are here!

Another Initiative has started with implementation in North Macedonia by the partner Poraka Nova who launched the open calls in order to recruit the participants for SAI – Self advocacy influencer Initiative.
Self-advocacy Influencer is an activity implemented within the NEUEYT project – and aims to connect young people from marginalized and underrepresented groups to work in a team with other young people. They will work in a series of modules through which they will gain skills and will know how to represent themselves through different types of digital tools, including social media. The main objective is to be heard and provoke reaction from relevant policy makers. Through online training 5 young people from marginalized and under-represented communities will gain skills and will work with mentors on self-advocacy through digital tools.
The trainings are planned to last 5 months, once a week there will be a theoretical lecture through an online platform (zoom) and then practical work with the mentor. The end result is the creation of a blog, or another type of online media or social media page, through which they will present their personal challenge / problem on the relevant topics (s), by telling stories, personal experiences, topic issues, interviews, recommendations, debates, polls, etc.
You can read more about this initiative and find the open calls here.

Voice Up Co-creation Picnic in Trikala

Voice Up Co-creation Picnic in Trikala

In relation to the Voice Up Initiative, that the city of Trikala is currently implementing, E-TRIKALA organized the first co-creation meeting with some of youngsters that have registered to implement this activity.
The meeting took place outdoors, in the Mill of Matsopoulos on Saturday morning the 9 th of April. This action was called “co-creation picnic” and was a fun activity for the youngsters to get to know with the Voice Up and experiment, discuss and brainstorm on concepts and ideas to implement. Check out the photos from this event and the agenda below.

Presenting you the Best Practice Collection/Report

Presenting you the Best Practice Collection/Report

This report represents a collection of best practices focused on youth engagement and civic participation that partners have identified and described to create a common knowledge baseline on the topic. Besides the valorization of the direct expertise of the partner organizations and their network, an extensive desk research and an analysis has been conducted, even if according to a qualitative approach. As a result of this research action, we collected n. 30 best practices implemented in and outside Europe.

In the initial phase we needed to design and develop a common methodology and related tools for the collection, analysis and descriptions of best practices in the field of youth engagement. To identify, analyze and describe the good practices, we shared common guidelines and templates for description. A good practice to be identified,  must meet a set of criteria:

  • EFFECTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL
  • SUSTAINABLE
  • GENDER SENSITIVE
  • TECHNICALLY FEASIBLE
  • INHERENTLY PARTICIPATORY
  • REPLICABLE AND ADAPTABLE

 

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Laboratory Meeting and Training for co-designing the Framework in Trikala, Greece

Laboratory Meeting and Training for co-designing the Framework in Trikala, Greece

Our second event the Lab meeting and training for co-designing the framework of the initiatives or the second transnational partners meeting was held in Trikala from 29 September until 1 October, 2021. Hosted by the Greek partner E-Trikala, participants from each partner country France, Italy, North Macedonia, Greece, Cyprus and Norway were present and presented their ideas and worked together in order to develop one of the most important documents within NEUEYT project.

During our 3-day joint staff training event the participants actively cooperate in the laboratory and discuss about the results of the best practices collection and analysis that was created earlier, had session for reflection and debate on the lessons learned by the selected best practices in order to focus relevant inputs for the design and the development of the Novel Framework for democratic participation and Engagement of Underrepresented European Youngsters – NEUEYT, which is one of the major outputs in this project, as well valorising the sharing of knowledge in the field of youth engagement according to peer learning approach.

Fist of all a presentation of the list of potential initiatives was made, after which establishing the roadmap for initiative was decided for 8 initiatives that were selected and all participants worked in groups. On the last day a presentation of all finalized and selected initiatives was done and the partners from E-Trikala presented couple of co-creation activities on how to get measurable feedback from policy makers and youngsters.

Looking forward to implement our great initiatives which will motivate young people towards participation on many levels.

Check out our visual tour form our Trikala Lab Event