European Youth Together (Small): Youth Empowerment Incubator: YEI

Programme(s): Erasmus+ Programme (ERASMUS)-undefined

Topic: ERASMUS-YOUTH-2021-YOUTH-TOG-LOT1

Type of action: ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants

Project ID: 101051372

Objective: Civic participation on all governing levels Is a crucial pillar of democracy with youth participation being even more relevant both on national and European level. Even so, there is a continuation of the Europe-wide trends of limited participation in democratic life and low levels of knowledge and awareness about European matters and their impact on the lives of all European citizens. Based on that, the project aims to bring together the National Youth Councils, as representative bodies of youth and grass-root organizations on national level and enable exchange of experience in order to replicate positive examples and best practices in more EU member and candidate members states. The project aims to bring National Youth Councils from North Macedonia, Estonia, Latvia, Serbia and Slovakia together in order to build a partnership that will promote, support and advocate for sustainable and inclusive democratic participation of young people in the decision-making processes. In order to achieve that, the project will establish a basis for sharing success stories concerning one or more of the specific objectives of the EU Youth Dialogue: (a) encourage the participation of young people in democratic life in Europe; (b) promote equal participation between young women and men; (c) include diverse voices and to ensure openness to all young people to contribute to policy-shaping; (d) bring about positive change in youth policy at local, regional, national and European level; (e) strengthen young people's citizenship competencies and sense of belonging to the society and the European Union. Having in mind the different local context and development of the partnering NYC’s the project will create an incubator for exchange of ideas and practices that will be replicated on national level in each of the participating countries and aim to increase youth participation in policy development on Employment, Environment, Digital Skills, Social Inclusion etc.