How to empower youth to become engaged & make an impact on policy?
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This presentation introduces the YouthMetre Project. A youth-based project funded as a forward-looking project to engage young people in policy making. YouthMetre is an exciting project that empowers young people to connect with policy makers in order to improve the youth policies in local authorities, regions and countries in Europe. YouthMetre creates an innovative tool that will give young people access, via a digital data dashboard, to information about how well their policymakers are performing in different youth fields. Examples of best practices are presented in order to help authorities improve their activities.
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How to empower youth to become engaged & make an impact on policy?
- 1. How to empower youth to become engaged & make an impact on policy? http://www.youthmetre.eu Professor Karl Donert, President EUROGEO
- 2. Five Key Areas • European Youth Strategy (EYS) • Review of EYS policy and literature • Power of information • How well are countries doing? • YouthMetre Project
- 3. Eurobarometer Surveys • Examined active engagement of youth Increasingly distanced from policy making and decisions
- 4. Political background • Calls to increase youth participation from all sides – young people, politicians, policy, decision-makers, and youth representatives • Address negative perception amongst many young people that their inputs do not have any effect on policies and decisions – decreasing engagement
- 5. Current situation • online participation – enables potential for mass engagement across social / economic groups • relatively small numbers of young people (only hundreds) involved • more complex engagements have even smaller numbers
- 6. European Youth Strategy • EU Youth Strategy, agreed by EU Ministers, sets out a framework for cooperation covering 2010-2018 • EU Member States have overall responsibility for their own youth policy (subsidiarity) i.e. not the EU
- 7. European Youth Strategy EYS has two main objectives: •Provide more and equal opportunities for young people in education and the job market •Encourage young people to actively participate in society
- 8. European Youth Strategy • Education & training • Employment & entrepreneurship • Health & well-being • Participation • Voluntary activities • Social inclusion • Youth & the world • Creativity & culture EYS indicates initiatives in eight areas:
- 9. Education & Training • shapes place of young people in the world • EU policy lacks power of enforcement • resistance to country performance targets • youth activities are also non-formal • policy on recognition of youth work • innovative approaches, not widespread Review of policy and research
- 10. Employment & Entrepreneurship • smart, sustainable and inclusive economy • youth employability a key policy objective • policies should link to needs of youth • transition from education to the workplace • more entrepreneurship education • but, little evidence of what works Review of policy and research
- 11. Health & Well Being • advantages of a healthy lifestyle • links to inclusion and employment • some policy aims to reduce risky behaviour • big differences between countries • promotion of physical activity • healthy education policy: drugs, sex, alcohol Review of policy and research
- 12. Participation • policies encourage participation • increasingly low levels in youngsters’ socio-political involvement • impact of mass media and Internet • need to involve youth in creating policies • capacity building processes important Review of policy and research
- 13. Voluntary Activities • voluntary activities a form of social action • based on free will, choice and motivation • citizenship construction • needs efficient volunteering infrastructures • disseminate information on opportunities • regular and systematic research important Review of policy and research
- 14. Social Inclusion • young people most affected by exclusion • multidimensional issue • policies to fight exclusion and poverty • combat feelings of uncertainty and alienation • shift from state to civil society / individuals • competences for Democratic Culture (CoE) Review of policy and research
- 15. Youth & the World • globalisation impacts on life chances of young people – identity, citizenship, work • example: effects of migration flows • need to consult youth • require proper global education to construct global identity • remove barriers to integration: radicalisation Review of policy and research
- 16. Creativity & Culture • culture stimulates creativity and opportunity • close links with digital technologies • impact on education, training, employment • based on communication and cultural consumption • fuelled by multilingualism and mobility • young people disadvantaged Review of policy and research
- 17. How well are EU countries doing? monitoring and accountability
- 18. How well are EU countries doing? transparency and open data
- 19. How well are countries doing?
- 20. How well are countries doing? uses commonly agreed Social Indicators for monitoring progress towards EU 2020 Objectives
- 21. How well are countries doing?
- 22. How well are countries doing?
- 23. How to empower youth to become engaged & make an impact on policy? http://www.youthmetre.eu
- 25. Youth and Information • era of big data, open data, monitoring • Information pre-requisite: decision-making • empowering young people to identify and campaign for policies they need and want http://eryica.org/page/principles-online-youth-information
- 26. Principles for Online Youth Information (ERYICA, 2009) • based on the needs of young people • understandable for young people and presented in an attractive way for them • prosumerism - young people consume and produce content • encourage feedback opportunities • increase information literacy skills http://eryica.org/page/principles-online-youth-information
- 27. Forward Looking Project • create a ‘forward-looking tool’ for youth participation (what Europe do we want?) • based on Education; Training; Youth (ETY) • identifying, testing, developing, assessing new innovative approaches in ETY • innovation in practices and policies for Youth, by Youth
- 28. Forward Looking Project • In-depth evidence and knowledge - effective methodologies / tools for systemic innovation • Potential of long-term impact – mainstream advanced innovative policy approaches • Stakeholders having impact on policy, Improvement / development of new policies
- 29. What are the EC Targets? • enhancements to existing processes, or completely new and innovative ideas • sophisticated engagement + large numbers of young people • scale up from local and regional engagement to national and European
- 30. YouthMetre • proposes and field-tests an innovative solution in the youth field – the Youthmetre • multiplier training (youth workers) • guidelines and practical examples for policy makers (under OMC) • YM tested and disseminated • in at least …. 20 countries
- 31. YouthMetre Indications of: •perceived needs of European youth for key areas in the EU Youth Strategy (Study Groups) •capacity of European public bodies to put youth initiatives in place in line with the perceived needs of youth and with the consideration of the EU Youth Strategy
- 33. YouthMetre Key features: •a dashboard of European data on Youth •a database of good practice initiatives put in place by European public bodies, as perceived by young Europeans •a high profile launch event •training of multipliers
- 35. The YouthMetre Map of relative success of youth policy 5 features 1.YouthMetre Index 2.Data dashboard 3.Good Practices 4.Map of Indicators 5.Youth preferences
- 36. The YouthMetre Map of case studies from database of good practices Data visualisation for country / region
- 37. The YouthMetre Data dashboard of young people’s perceived needs Map allowing analysis of Youth Policy indicators
- 38. Review available data • Obtain ‘reliable data measures’ of indicators for the Youthmetre Index • 26 datasets on Youth found on the EU Open Data portal, January 2016 http://tinyurl.com/zhxwa53 • Eurostat data and surveys http://tinyurl.com/jlhkfxp • Eurobarometer e.g. http://tinyurl.com/o4rqemt • EU dashboard http://tinyurl.com/hz5f5fa
- 39. Summary of data issues • Need to get young people’s perspectives – i.e. the relative importance data sets are to them • To present change – data must be regularly collected • Best to have not too much data, but good data and meta data (reliability) • Need training for users – about visualisation and using data
- 44. Web: http://www.youthmetre.eu News http://tinyurl.com/YouthMetre1 Email: j.mahlerova@youthpress.org Twitter: @youthmetre
- 45. Conclusions • Very challenging …. using education to influence / change policy • Wide-reaching pilot … scaled up • How to reach target groups? youngsters, local authorities, NGOs • Comments / questions ?
Editor's Notes
- P1 EUROGEO (European Association of Geographers) Project coordinator EUROGEO is a European scientific society, with a European dimension, which networks geographers and those from related subjects (environment, planning, surveying, geotechnology) from all walks of life. P2 UNIZAR (University of Zaragossa) Project partner The University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) is a public higher education and research institution in the service of society, and combining a tradition of over 500 years of history with constantly updated teaching approach. P3 EYP (European Youth Press) Project partner The European Youth Press (EYP) is an umbrella association of young media makers in Europe. It involves more than 50,000 journalists and other media makers, and as a network has 22 member organisations. P4 ALDA (Association of Local Democracy Agencies) Project partner The Association of Local Democracy Agencies is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the promotion of the good governance at local level. P5 ARS4P (ARS for Progress of People) Project partner ARS for Progress of People is a non-profit organization based in Brussels (Belgium). It is the host organization for the program “Erasmus Placement” and regularly hosts young trainees from all over Europe. P6 CESIE Project partner CESIE is a non-profit, apolitical, and secular non-governmental organisation with member organizations in more than eight European countries.
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