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Nederlandse en Vlaamse jeugdactoren verbinden rond kind- en jeugdvriendelijk beleid
FunderEuropean Commission
Funder Contribution €60,000.00
Funded underERASMUS+ | Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices | Small-scale partnerships in youth
Project code2022-3-BE05-KA210-YOU-000093310
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<< Background >>Children & youth need – and have the right according to the Convention of the Rights of the Child – to grow up in a childfriendly environment. Their surroundings influence their health, safety, social life and opportunities in life. Yet both involved networks see how municipalities struggle to provide children with such a surrounding. The needs and interests of children are not always fully considered in decision making or activities concerning their environment - which is ruled by both national law, local regulations and rules as by different departments and services. Thus the local environment is neither the responsibility or result of one service or group and therefore demands collaboration. To conclude, although children and young people are experts when it comes to how they experience and use their environment, they are not invited to participate in decision making. Because of these findings, Netwerk Jeugdvriendelijk and Child Friendly Cities decided to organise an exchange between municipalities and local partners from the two different countries. With the exchange we addressed the needs for new insights, knowledge and examples from both research, policies and practice.<< Objectives >>The objectives we wanted to achieve and the results we wanted to realized were:1.To inspire, motivate and challenge the participants of this exchange to work locally to a more childfriendly environment and to collaborate where possible to achieve such an environment. We wanted to provide the participants with practical tools and examples for their own local context.2.To connect partners from (local) government, research and fieldwork with each other, both within their own country as cross-national, both locally and nationally. << Implementation >>We had participants from 7 Flemish and 6 Dutch municipalities, from several (local) partners, researchers from 4 different colleges/universities, participants from the Flemish Department of Culture, Youth and Media and from the Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Wellbeing and Sports. In total 44 participants joined (parts of) the exchange. These activities took place:1. March '23: online kick-off to meet eachother and to inspire with two key-note speakers of HoGent and HAN University of Applied Sciences. The kick-off aimed to support participants in formulating their own learning ambitions.2. May '23: 3-day exchange in Flanders. There were presentations about examples from Turnhout, Beringen and other organisations including field trips in both Turnhout and Beringen.3. Sept. '23: 3-day exchange in the Netherlands. There were presentations about examples from Apeldoorn and other organisations, including a meeting with the Youth board of Apeldoorn and several field trips in Apeldoorn, Varsselder and Zutphen.4. Dec. '23: Online reflection meeting where participants exchanged learning outcomes and possible changes in their own contexts.5. May '24: Closing event in Gent with time for both synthesis and some new examples from Gent.<< Results >>The exchange resulted in a wide range of good practices, inspiring examples and insight in supporting research. The findings were summarized in a volume of inspiration (see annexes), with 3 main lessons:- youth participation: initiate meaningful dialogue with young people, even the more vulnerable ones - process and cooperation: through collaboration, an ecosystemic perspective and an area-based approach new possibilities arise- choices within policy topics: focus on 'software' and 'hardware': both people and infrastructure are essential.The results were captured in 3 videos (see annexes), and shared with participants and other stakeholders (see impact and follow up).Presentations were already given in Flanders by several Dutch participants and will be done vice versa as well.The exchange also resulted in a new and broad network. A participant list with contact information was shared (after consent of all participants) and we started a whatsapp group during the exchange, that participants wanted to keep after the end of the exchange.
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<< Background >>Children & youth need – and have the right according to the Convention of the Rights of the Child – to grow up in a childfriendly environment. Their surroundings influence their health, safety, social life and opportunities in life. Yet both involved networks see how municipalities struggle to provide children with such a surrounding. The needs and interests of children are not always fully considered in decision making or activities concerning their environment - which is ruled by both national law, local regulations and rules as by different departments and services. Thus the local environment is neither the responsibility or result of one service or group and therefore demands collaboration. To conclude, although children and young people are experts when it comes to how they experience and use their environment, they are not invited to participate in decision making. Because of these findings, Netwerk Jeugdvriendelijk and Child Friendly Cities decided to organise an exchange between municipalities and local partners from the two different countries. With the exchange we addressed the needs for new insights, knowledge and examples from both research, policies and practice.<< Objectives >>The objectives we wanted to achieve and the results we wanted to realized were:1.To inspire, motivate and challenge the participants of this exchange to work locally to a more childfriendly environment and to collaborate where possible to achieve such an environment. We wanted to provide the participants with practical tools and examples for their own local context.2.To connect partners from (local) government, research and fieldwork with each other, both within their own country as cross-national, both locally and nationally. << Implementation >>We had participants from 7 Flemish and 6 Dutch municipalities, from several (local) partners, researchers from 4 different colleges/universities, participants from the Flemish Department of Culture, Youth and Media and from the Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Wellbeing and Sports. In total 44 participants joined (parts of) the exchange. These activities took place:1. March '23: online kick-off to meet eachother and to inspire with two key-note speakers of HoGent and HAN University of Applied Sciences. The kick-off aimed to support participants in formulating their own learning ambitions.2. May '23: 3-day exchange in Flanders. There were presentations about examples from Turnhout, Beringen and other organisations including field trips in both Turnhout and Beringen.3. Sept. '23: 3-day exchange in the Netherlands. There were presentations about examples from Apeldoorn and other organisations, including a meeting with the Youth board of Apeldoorn and several field trips in Apeldoorn, Varsselder and Zutphen.4. Dec. '23: Online reflection meeting where participants exchanged learning outcomes and possible changes in their own contexts.5. May '24: Closing event in Gent with time for both synthesis and some new examples from Gent.<< Results >>The exchange resulted in a wide range of good practices, inspiring examples and insight in supporting research. The findings were summarized in a volume of inspiration (see annexes), with 3 main lessons:- youth participation: initiate meaningful dialogue with young people, even the more vulnerable ones - process and cooperation: through collaboration, an ecosystemic perspective and an area-based approach new possibilities arise- choices within policy topics: focus on 'software' and 'hardware': both people and infrastructure are essential.The results were captured in 3 videos (see annexes), and shared with participants and other stakeholders (see impact and follow up).Presentations were already given in Flanders by several Dutch participants and will be done vice versa as well.The exchange also resulted in a new and broad network. A participant list with contact information was shared (after consent of all participants) and we started a whatsapp group during the exchange, that participants wanted to keep after the end of the exchange.
