Day#3

During the third day we have looked at various means and methods of debating and engaging with each other and on how youth participation can be fostered. In order to do so we have teamed up with different experts, practicioners and best practice providers.

#1 How to advice on local policies?
#2 How to influence laws?
#3 How to participate in a digital way?
#4 How to communicate respectfully?
#5 Novi Sad European Youth Capital and European Capital of Culture 2021
#6 How to find an agreement?

I. How to advice on local policies?

Workshop leaders: Sefton Young Advisors (UK)

The Sefton Young Advisors are young people in the UK , who show community leaders how to engage young people in community life, local decision-making and improving services. Through their work, Young Advisors bring unique expertise and knowledge about being young to influence strategic planning, decision-making and marketing across business, health, local authorities, justice and charity sectors. A team from Liverpool joined the IDD 2019 in order to share their approaches and practices and experiences.

II. How to influence laws?

Workshop leaders: Stine Marie Jacobsen (DE/DK), artist and educator, and Bilal Alkatout (DE), lawyer, have teamed up to be the Law Shifters.

Law Shifters engage young citizens in law and democracy by giving them the chance to act as both judges and lawmakers. They ask the question What would your verdict be to real court cases, and how would you rewrite the laws in your country so that they would be more fair? The Law Shifters project makes young people discuss their political opinions, ethical views and sense of justice as they re-judge real court cases and write new law proposals that reflect the reality that they are part of today. For the IDD 2019 the law shifters brought a case about a Peruvian peasant whose home is threatened by the rising water level of a lake nearby. Due to global warming the glaciers around are melting and continously adding water to the lake. Participants discussed about the course of action to take.

III. How to participate in a digital way?

Workshop leader: Michaela Gloger, Kinder- und Jugendbüro Dresden (Child and Youth Office Dresden)

What does participation mean and how do the digital changes in our world interfere, challenge or contribute to how we engaged with young people? Participants discussed these issues and had the chance to test different tools of digital participation.

IV. How to communicate respectfully?

Workshop leader: Kathrin Ibisch, Educators for Future

How does respectful communication link to the unfolding of potentials, true participation and future-oriented projects of commonality? Kathrin Ibisch is convinced that for projects and activities of commonality in the city, genuine encounters and inter-generational communication at eye level is needed. In the workshop participants discussed various ideas and concepts on how to do that in order to gain new insights and discover novel possibilities of action.

 

V. Novi Sad European Youth Capital and European Capital of Culture 2021

Workshop leader: Katarina Živanović, European Youth Capital Novi Sad, Dušan Banović, European Capital of Culture 2021

Novi Sad is a small, but compact city in the heart of the Vojvodina region in Serbia. This vivid city with over 80,000 young people holds currently (2019) the title of European Youth Capital. Besides that, Novi Sad will become European Capital of Culture in 2021. In the workshop participants discussed what it means and what it takes to be European Youth Capital and how it links in with the European Capital of Culture and how a city can become both.

VI. How to find an agreement?

Workshop leaders: Sylke Gottlebe, Steffi Karn and Uta Quietzsch, Filmfest Dresden

With a selection of five short films from the festival repertoire, the workshop leaders showed the versatility with which international filmmakers deal with the themes of home, identity and self-determination. In an exemplary process of film viewing, we discuss the different perspectives of the films, evaluate them and select a favourite for the final presentation.