According to the Cities for Children strategy „Participation of children and young persons in decision-making processes and public life should be encouraged. In this context, youth initiatives should be supported and the activities of youth organizations should be promoted. Further, children and young persons should be made aware of the challenges of sustainable development and become actors of sustainable development in cities”

Moderation: Candidate is the City of Riga

Senior Moderator: City of Offenbach, Germany; City of The Hague, The Netherlands

Participating cities:  Berne (Switzerland), Cologne (Germany), Cracow (Poland), Gaziantep (Turkey), Gent (Belgium), Graz (Austria), Kassel (Germany), Kotka (Finland), Lausanne (Switzerland), Malmö (Sweden), Munich (Germany), Naestved, Offenbach a. M. (Germany), Oradea (Romania), Panevezys (Lithuania), Riga (Latvia), Rijeka (Croatia), Salzgitter (Germany), Stavanger (Norway), Stuttgart (Germany), Tampere (Finland), Tartu (Estonia), The Hague, Valletta (Malta), Vilnius (Lithuania), Wroclaw (Poland), Zabrze (Poland), Zürich (Switzerland)

Interested cities are further: St. Helens (Great Britain), Sassari (Italy)

Topics:

• How to "recruit" young people into youth participation projects
• How to finance projects (sponsoring)
• Communication: how to make youth participation visible, how to prepare adults to work with youth, the language of young persons and adults / politics
• Overview of projects concerning informal ways of learning
• Evaluation of participation projects
• Youth participation in city planning
• Media and youth participation

Meetings:

11 May 2010 in Stuttgart

Protocol of the meeting on 11 May in Stuttgart

1 - 2 March 2010 in Offenbach

Presentations

City of Offenbach: Introduction to the WG Meeting

City of Offenbach: Introduction to the Youth Parliament

City of Zurich: Evaluation of Youth Participation (Abstract)

City of Tampere: Children's Participation

Program

Photographs of the Meeting
 

30 June 2009 in Stuttgart

Protocol of the meeting on 30 June 2009 in Stuttgart
 

27 & 28 March 2008 in The Hague

• Summary presentation by Julie d´Hondt, The Hague, WG moderator
• Contribution to the WG meeting by Tiia Heinäsuo, City of Tampere

Further, from the WG meeting on March 2008 in The Hague:

• An overview of the presented project by the participants
  
• The report on the meeting

7 May 2008 in Stuttgart

Protocol of the meeting on 7 May 2008 in Stuttgart

All projects are now on the project table under Activities: click here