Partnership: INSTITOYTO KOINONIKIS
KAINOTOMIAS KAI SYNOXIS – EL Danube 1245 – RS FAJUB – Federação das Associações
Juvenis de Braga – PT
Within the Erasmus + project No.
2022-1-EL02-KA154-YOU-000070803 ‘’YouDecide -Defending Youth and Decision
Makers Transnational EU Youth Dialogue’’, citizens’ association Danube 1245
from Serbia organised a workshop for 47 high school students and their teachers
in Agricultural High School in Futog, Serbia on 7.12.2023.
The Agenda comprised a lecture on the
active citizenship and opportunities for young people to actively participate
in the decision making processes on the local and national level, with examples
of EU and national institutions which focus on youth participation as well as
the best practices examples of youth organizations’ projects in Serbia. The
students also watched an informative video on youth participation which was
made specifically for this workshop. The lecture was followed by a quiz on
youth rights and civic engagement. Afterwards, the students participated in a
workshop in which they worked in groups of 5 with the goal to come up with
ideas for a project in their local community. This was a type of guided
practice in which the students were given potential topics for their project to
choose from and a handout with guiding questions to be answered. After fruitful
discussion, a representative of each group then presented the ideas for their
group’s project. The overall outcome was
raised awareness of the importance of youth participation in the decision
making process and the students’ satisfaction with their own ability to come up
with meaningful solutions for the problems in their local community.
