Local Youth Councils in SB - An Effective Way to Promote Youth Participation

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Poland - Denmark - Germany - Lithuania - Sweden (South Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2021-04-17

Description

Description (EN):

Most of the countries around the Baltic sea have neither sufficient opportunities nor concrete measures for the youth to more actively participate in pan-Baltic networks to discuss critical issues, be them environmental, social, and educational, etc. due to eg. some government representatives as well as young people themselves are not well aware of the potential benefits of youth involvement and participation and long lasting effects of participation on both individuals and larger communities. The partners’ experience and some national-level survey results show that majority of local actors have not seriously considered yet that participation on international or cross-border levels could benefit individuals, governments and the societies in general. Numerous surveys also report that young people feel poorly integrated in their societies, ignored or unprepared to compete in the labour market, they either show little interest in or lack concrete tools for overcoming their social or economic alienation. The future project would undertake to fill-in the gap by building capacity of various local actors in the partner countries, and increasing their interest and commitment in greater networking for more efficient and transparent public policy and youth policy on both national and pan-Baltic or international levels. The Seed money is needed to facilitate partner exchanges and development of a project concept and a future project for financing by the South Baltic Programme not only for Poland and Lithuania, but also for at least three-four other countries around the Baltic sea. It would complement some analysis, round-table discussions involving participants from various sectors, various government levels, NGO representatives, and individuals.

Website: https://southbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Development of tools and mechanisms for local government institutions, communities, youth and other NGOs, and business representatives enabling their efficient cooperation and networking for the benefit of youth in the South Baltic Area.

Expected Outputs (EN):

The main output of the Seed Money will be project concept paper and Application Form of the future project in which the main aim will be increase local actors’ interest in, capacities and commitment for participatory public policy through more active cross-border cooperation and networking. The future project will cover at least 5 or 6 countries around the Baltic sea. The activities will target analysis of the state of art of youth participation and youth policy issues in all partner countries, increasing capacities of local government institutions, community and youth leaders in strategic policy development, and networking. The project will facilitate development of tools and mechanisms for more efficient cooperation and networking for the purpose of the strengthening of the civil society. The project will enable creation of missing or strengthening the available links between local government and non-governmental institutions. It is expected to raise sufficient interest among local government (and other smaller administrative units in individual partner countries) representatives to more often seek opinions from formal or informal youth groups and community organizations in respect to a variety of public policy issues.

Thematic information

Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks Social inclusion and equal opportunities Community integration and common identity

Specific Objective: Improve the cooperation capacity of local South Baltic area actors through participation in cross-border networks

Thematic Objective:

(11) enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration through actions to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administrations and public services related to the implementation of the ERDF, and in support of actions under the ESF to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administration.

Investment Priority: (11 ETC) ETC specific, for cross-border cooperation: enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration by promoting legal and administrative cooperation and cooperation between citizens and institutions

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: STOWARZYSZENIE GMIN RP EUROREGION BAŁTYK

Address: Stary Rynek 25, 82-300 Elbląg, Poland

Legal status: public

Website: www.eurobalt.org.pl

Total budget: EUR 13 600.00

ERDF budget: EUR 11 560.00

FUNDACJA CIVIS POLONUS

Name: FUNDACJA CIVIS POLONUS

Address: Józefa Bellottiego 5/47, 01-022 Warszawa, Poland

Legal status: private

Website: www.civispolonus.org.pl

Total budget: EUR 9 500.00

ERDF budget: EUR 8 075.00

Viešoji įstaiga Žemaičių bendruomenės fondas

Name: Viešoji įstaiga Žemaičių bendruomenės fondas

Address: Sedos St. 34, 87101 Telsiai, Lithuania

Legal status: public

Website: www.zemaiciufondas.lt

Total budget: EUR 9 300.00

ERDF budget: EUR 7 905.00

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Summary

Project name (EN): Local Youth Councils in SB - An Effective Way to Promote Youth Participation

Project acronym: LYC SB (seed)

Project start date: 2016-09-01

Project end date: 2017-01-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 32 400.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 27 540.00

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, .

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Poland - Denmark - Germany - Lithuania - Sweden (South Baltic)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2024-03-01

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

155 / 155 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

589 / 870 (67.7%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Data from 66 projects (Seed Money Projects) was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 2024-03-01. Regarding partners only data only main partners is available. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (https://southbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-24 and 2023-01-24.

The financial data featured in keep.eu for this programme, it's projects and its partners is not exact and should be taken as a reference only.

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