Youth Placemaking Balkans

<< Objectives >>The project aims to create a youth placemaking Balkan movement to support local youth-led placemaking activities and encourage young people to be active citizens through the creation of places imagined and needed by them. The main goal seeks to promote youth active citizenship and engagement through integrating better the youth needs and youth voice in community placemaking projects.<< Implementation >>The project involves cross-cutting activities on managing local partnerships, and specific activities on research to better understand the trends of youth engagement in communities and to create a tool to build civic participation skills in youth. A key component of the project is the youth-led placemaking interventions in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Greece, and North Macedonia to teach practically the competences, and structured dialogues to integrate youth voice in decision-making.<< Results >>The project will provide inspiring examples for other young people in the communities across the partner countries to acquire a more active role in their areas and will create a transnational youth placemaking movement across the Balkan region with a potential to scale it up in other communities. The project is expected to spark the discussion equally in the partner countries on youth engagement through the national structured dialogues with civic organisations and public administration.