Aim
To strengthen young people’s ability to critically engage with democratic processes through media and civic storytelling, while fostering inclusive participation and digital resilience across Europe.
Objectives
- 1. Empower youth with the knowledge and tools to understand their rights to expression, information, and civic engagement, in line with Recommendation CM/Rec(2016)7 and the EDC/HRE Charter.
- 2. Build capacity in ethical, inclusive, and youth-led journalism, enabling participants to act as multipliers and community educators in democratic participation and media literacy.
- 3. Enhance digital literacy by addressing algorithmic bias, disinformation, and the civic impact of AI on youth access to information.
- 4. Foster democratic resilience at the local level through the co-creation of “Civic Story Seeds” — project concepts using storytelling to address real-life community challenges, grounded in the Revised European Charter on Youth Participation.
- 5. Introduce participants to practical tools for strengthening local youth councils, including the Quality Charter on participatory and inclusive LYCs, DYPALL’s user guide, and toolkit for upgrading youth participation structures.
- 6. Promote intercultural understanding and pluralism through cross-border collaboration among youth from diverse regions and backgrounds.
- 7. Together, these objectives contribute directly to the Council of Europe’s priorities of revitalising pluralistic democracy and advancing young people’s access to rights — while reinforcing media’s role as a driver of democratic inclusion.
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