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Salento Smart Sessions
Salento Smart Sessions
Start date: Jan 1, 2016,
End date: Aug 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Salento Smart Sessions (S3) is a project of Structured Dialogue - meetings between young people and decision-makers in the field of youth to be implemented under the Erasmus plus in the frame of the KA3 and to be hosted from the Italian SEYF.The project starts from the analysis of local stakeholders (young people and decision makers) who are not able to proper communicate because of the lack of codes, communication means and communication skills. On one hand, there is a young generation of digital natives able to use new ICT with security and confidence but barely educated to participate to the territorial planning; on the other hand, decision makers are not confident enough with ICT and unable to convert territorial needs in a wider perspective of long-term planning.On this basis, 3S intends to stimulate the creation of moments and tools for the construction of a structured dialogue between young people and local decision makers for a participated planning of a Smart territory, bused upon the needs of its inhabitants.The foreseen activities:1. Preparation: structured on the 'discovery' (in order to simulate curiosity and awareness on the project), 'analysis' (in order to set up needs assessment and to find the issues relevat for young people) and 'prepar-action' (in order to t;rain on the state of art, on digital cultrue and to prepare participants to debate between young people and decision makers)2. Implementation: structured on three days of activities focused on 'debate' (in order to practice strucutred dialogue), on 'plannning and project development' (in order to foster a joint development of the territory) and on the 'construcion of the platform (in order to prepare for the following project' stage);3. Follow up: realization of a web platform for a the stable interaction between young people, decision makers and civil society for a common planning of the territroy through a participatory approach.3S involves a total of 100 participants: 90 young people aged 16-18 form the 3 municipalities involved and 10 decision makers and experts.The aims of the project:* support the active involvement of civil society networks and non-governmental organisations in policy implementation, by facilitating the process of interaction through a structured approach which involved the young people in each stage of the proejct;* to support the Structured Dialogue with young people and encourage their active participation in democratic life, by giving to the young people the opportunity to be protagonist of the planning and development of their territory;* 3S follows relevant priorities in the field of YOUTH as it complements policy reforms at local, regional and national level and supports the development of knowledge and evidence-based youth policy as well as the recognition of non-formal and informal learning, by enhancing and promoting experience and knolwedge aquired among peers and through the exchange of good practices.The methodologies used for euFOOD meet the requirements of the non-formal/experiential learning: the young participants and the decision makers are going to take part to different actions and their involvement at every stage of the project through the sharing of good practices, open space discussion and benchmarking, constant evaluation and monitoring.Finally, thanks to the realization of a web paltform for the territorial planning through a participatory approach, young people and decision makers are going to be involved into a process of transfer knowldege, experience and positive change production.Our expectations are that it will be possible to foster the active citizenship on the local territory through the development of smart planning in a mid-long term perspective.