Youth Decide: Youth Participation in Local Community Projects

2026-07-22

This project aims to improve student participation on both local and European level through active engagement in local communities’ decision-making process. The main method of improving student participation is the use of participatory budgeting programs within local communities. This project wants to address the lack of youth participation on local and European level, improve teaching of European topics, particularly topics that concern EU integration and local policies within other EU member states. Main objectives of the project are: - To encourage students to recognize issues and provide solutions within their local community, thus actively participating in local democracy. - To promote the practice of participatory budgeting among young Europeans and in other EU member states and third countries. - To nurture common European identity and share knowledge of regional and local policy in EU member states and third countries. - To actively improve living conditions within different European communities via promotion of participatory budgeting and project planning. - To build relationships between schools and local administrators. Project activities include seminars and group lessons on EU policies, events attended by local administrators, representatives of non-governmental organizations and local inhabitants, workshops pertaining to methods of active citizenship within local communities, creation of a project and its entry into local participatory budgeting program, team project with students from other European schools, short-term exchange with the goal of developing a participatory budgeting project within another European country, active promotion of participatory budgeting on a local level and developing a website, dedicated to student projects that enter participatory budgeting projects across Europe.

Slovenia

2025-12-15