Minecrafting resilient Cities: innovative YOUth-led Policy process for sustainable Europe

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"Active engagement of youth in sustainable development efforts is central to achieving sustainable, inclusive and stable societies by 2030 (UN, OECD); The partners have identified 2 main challenges to be addressed by the MC-YOU: Urgent Need for Resilient Cities and Lack of Innovative Participatory Model Attractive for young people. MC-YOU project aims to empower young people to take a proactive role in creating resilient cities by developing and testing a new youth-led policy model that includes leveraging creative and educational potential of Minecraft but also offer to policy makers a sustainable solution to engage youth in political processes on the local level. Specific objectives are (1) To support development of digital skills among young people; (2) To encourage involvement of a diverse group of young people; (3) To create and test innovative policy mechanism for young people to collaborate and participate with policy makers; (4) To create and develop a Community of Practitioners; (5) Create a Capacity Building platform for future for city administrators. Activities will encompass a cycle of: #Analyse&Commit! (WP1), #Educate&Empower! (WP2), #Consult&Develop! (WP3), #Advocate&Sustain! (WP4), #Manage&Impact! (WP5). Results will showcase increased capacities of the target groups (young people, youth stakeholders and policymakers) to effectively engage young people in all phases of active political participation. Impact: The project activities will reach 405 young people, 243 youth stakeholders, 252 policy makers and 360 citizens and reach 13040 people online. The project will also amplify its scope and include other external stakeholders to attain a medium and long term sustainability. The project will be jointly implemented by 8 partners: Network partners OTB (Belgium), UBC (Poland), Piloting cities (Faro, Riga, Sandanski), Youth stakeholder partners YEPP (Germany/Europe), CESIE (Italy) and quality assurance partner LINK (Italy)."