- Perception of EU Institutions: The EP and other EU bodies are perceived as distant and irrelevant by many young people, with European identity rarely seen as important, leading to indifference. ...

- Perception of EU Institutions: The EP and other EU bodies are perceived as distant and irrelevant by many young people, with European identity rarely seen as important, leading to indifference. - Need for VAA Improvement: VAA apps must adapt to changing user needs to effectively reach those with low political interest by allowing easy comparison of views with parties and politicians. - Visibility of Young People's Issues: Young people's concerns are underrepresented at national and European levels, with youth often a minority among voters and the political class generally over 50. ____________________________________ In our project, we aimed to: - Increase young people's interest in politics, particularly European issues, and demonstrate the connection between politics and their everyday lives. - Ensure that leading European VAA (Virtual Assistant Applications) become co-created by young people, making them more appealing and relevant to their concerns, and thus more widely used by them. - Develop and test strategies to strengthen the voice of young people before the 2024 European Parliament elections. - Create engaging and persuasive methods for addressing political topics at the European level that resonate with young people

- Online Expert Group Meetings and development of tools for consultation and participatory workwith youth. - Conducting diagnostic activities and group interviews to identify political topics important for youth. - In-person meeting in Warsaw and developing 10 common topics for young people - Creation and implementation of informational and promotional campaigns - Organizing and conducting the democracy festivals.

- We engaged 2,116 young people from 5 countries in consultations on topics, statements, and the VAA app. themselves . - We developed discussion scenarios, debate formats, and activities for different youth engagement contexts to identify key European issues important to them. - We conducted 5 focus group interviews in each partner country with young people about their political engagement, perceptions of the European Parliament elections, and decision-making processes. - We identified 10 topics, important to young people and submitted by them, which will be included in the VAA applications before the 2024 EP elections. - We created 16 communication materials (short videos, reels, etc.) in the partners' languages featuring young people discussing statements they formulated. - We reached out to X young people across 5 countries with communication activities highlighting important European issues for youth—most parties running in the 2024 EP elections in these 5 partner countries have defined and publicly shared their positions on the issues raised by young people. - We reached 1,697,406 users of VAA applications with the topics important for yout - We engaged X young people in direct act direct activities (Democracy Festivals)