It is urgent to collectively take stock of lessons learned from youth engagement at the local level, and to look at opportunities for renewed democratic engagement of young people in cities in Europe. By putting practitioners from cities and local governments from four European countries – France, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland – in conversation with each other as well as with youth advocates and activists, this policy workshop will shed light on how local youth participation can be redesigned for youth voices to be heard in an inclusive and sustainable way.

The workshop will consist of three thematic roundtables: one on activism, and two others on democratic innovations and social policies, respectively.

This policy workshop is taking place in the context of the project “Protest and Engagement, From the Global to the Local: Mapping The Forms of Youth Participation in Europe”. The workshop will be preceded, on Tuesday 3 October, from 18:30 to 20:00, by a public event on the renewal of local democracy with and by young people. It will take place against the backdrop of the Forum of Mayors and aim to explore synergies between the two events.

This is a closed workshop. Anyone interested in attending should email democracy@graduateinstitute.ch