With project We are democrazy! will four partners; non-formal group Mladi za Trbovlje and Trbovlje Youth Centre from Slovenia, Youth council Kokkola and International Youth centre Villa Elba from Finland INFORM, ACTIVATE and MOTIVATE young people to be active citizenship of their local communities Trbovlje and Kokkola and to participate in or establish new mehanisms of representative democracy in their local communities. We want to empower young people to realize that their actions matter and if being active citizens they have possibility to influence local community and be an active builder of their own future. According to that, we will first develop research on active participation of young people in local level and possibilities for it. Than we will develop action plans for increasing participation of young people in Kokkola and Trbovlje. Through different promotional and working activities we will promote and motivate young people to be active in their local communities. We will establish environment and run different activities according to our action plans such as meetings, on-line forums, debates etc. all with goal of increasing active participation of young people in democracy life of Trbovlje and Kokkola. With our regular meetings in Trbovlje or in Kokkola we will debate about the project implementation and what is more important learn from each other on the cases of good practices in Finland and in Slovenia and how to transfer them to our local community. In Trbovlje we will with the experience and guidance of our partners from Youth council Kokkola also start developing self-governing, decision-making representative structure of youth on local level which will be a birdge for young people to the stakeholders in our local government. We will try to work in spirit of Rome declaration and teach our local government: "Listen to what we have to say, ask us what we need and then act!"
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