How to score a Youth Goal?

The overall aim of this project was to foster youth engagement and youth participation by mapping the implementation of European Youth Goals in European and national policy contexts, identifying p...

First objective of our project was to provide National working groups members and other stakeholders as well as decision makers, on all levels from local to European with existing knowledge on implementation of the Youth Goals. First objective was focused on the “what” while the second was looking to answer the question “how”. Our second objective was to support and encourage meaningful youth participation by providing participation tools gathered in one place. By developing 4 training curriculas, our third objective was to create all the necessary preparation work for any youth organisation or institution to transfer the knowledge of both implementation and youth participation in regard to the Youth Goals. Therefore, the overall aim of KA2 „How to score a Youth goal“ project was to foster youth engagement and youth participation by mapping the implementation of European Youth Goals in European and national policy contexts, identifying participation methods and creating training curricula for practitioners and policy makers to transfer this knowledge into practice.

To accomplish the first objective, we mapped and research examples and policy practices from different EU countries as well as research EU policy level on EYGs implementation, after which we jointly created recommendations to improve EYGs implementation at national and European level. Partner Ondrej Barta conducted preparation work and analyzed data provided by research and information from each partner in the consortium for the production of project result 2/IO2. All of these different examples and practices were needed to ensure a large variety of successful practices out of which ten would be translated into case studies. All findings were summarized in one cookbook that was reflected and commented on by all partners. IO3, the training curricula was also tested in practice thus making it useful for youth organizations, young people and decision makers. First step to that goal was for all partners to discuss what kind of training curricula they’d find useful and based on that input as well as results from IO1 and IO2, Dypall produced that curricula. Besides discussing it inside a partnership consortium it was tested via LTT activities on different target groups to see how useful/successful it is and where there are opportunities for improvement.

We achieved our first objective of EYG implementation by gathering in one publication good practice examples and creating recommendations and conclusions. Our second objective was achieved through the creation of a “Cookbook of youth political participation” which was developed based on a combination of theoretical research background and 10 case studies of successful youth participation. After that, we combined the first two outputs and made them easier to share and transfer knowledge on how to use them through designing and testing training curriculums for different target groups. To ensure that we created something useful, we tested that method on different stakeholders and actors in the field of youth policy like representatives of national youth councils, youth organisations (both national and international) as well as decision makers and individual young people after which we incorporated the results of the evaluation obtained through testing into the training curricula and further dissemination. Concrete project outputs were: One publication - good practice examples of EYG implementation, with recommendations and conclusions. „Cookbook of youth political participation” - combination of theoretical research background and 10 case studies of successful youth participation. Training curricula for 4 target groups (national youth councils, youth organisations (both national and international) as well as decision makers and individual young people – testing through LTT activities.