Study Session “W(e-)participate – Harnessing Digital Innovation for Youth Participation at the Local Level”
Seminar
27 September – 3 October 2020 | Strasbourg, France
This study session aims to create a shared understanding of digital youth participation among youth workers and municipal representatives and to examine and exchange good practices on the field to promote its implementation.
The study session “W(e)-participate: Harnessing Digital Innovation for Youth Participation” aims to create a shared understanding of digital participation among youth workers and municipal representatives and to examine and exchange good practices on the field to promote its implementation. The study session will serve as a forum to interrogate the challenges and opportunities of digital participation, as well as to assess the needs among youth organisations and municipalities that can help to guarantee a successful and meaningful implementation of digital participation processes.
During the Study Session, participants will be able to examine a variety of practices and models of digital participation and of mechanisms and structures that support such practices, as well as to transfer this experience into their local reality. This will allow the participants to gain skills and knowledge to help young people participation through and with said digital tools. Moreover, they will develop a deeper understanding of the different realities, experiences and opportunities for digital participation.
The specific objectives of this Study Session are to:
- Discuss and create a common understanding of what digital youth participation is;
- Map realities, opportunities and challenges of digital participation among youth workers and local representatives;
- Exchange and discover good practices around and outside Europe of the usage of digital tools for youth participation;
- Reflect on the youth policy of the Council of Europe and the role of digital participation therein;
- Plan and discuss strategies to adapt and implement these best practices and policies of digital participation at the local level;
- Produce a publication with practices in and outside Europe to promote the usage and understanding of digital youth participation.
Profile of Participants:
This study session is targeting youth workers, youth leaders, youth researchers and youth municipality officers working with or interested in developing their competencies working with digital participation tools at the local level. Moreover, the participants must:
- be able to work in English;
- according to the rules of the Council of Europe, participants should be aged between 18 and 30 years old (exceptional cases can be accepted, when justified);
- be willing to contribute with their experience to the Study Session;
- be residents of Council of Europe member state countries; some exceptions are possible depending on the participants’ application form.
- be able to attend the whole duration of the Study Session;
- have relevant experience in the topic of youth participation at the local level or experience with digital tools to support youth participation;
- be highly motivated towards learning about models and structures of digital participation.
Available downloads: 01_Call for participants_Study Session_We participate.pdf
More information at: SALTO