The project ‘Co-operation Youth vote: Enabling future active European citizens’ aims to offer a space for training in the preparation of the 2024 European Parliament election campaigns.
The project will prepare a set of outputs that the partner organisations and a wider network can use for the coming European Parliament elections in 2024 ensuring young people will vote, but also to make politicians accountable for their promises and decisions.
The initiative, supported by an Erasmus+ grant, will be implemented between March 2022 and February 2024 through the creation and use of a toolkit, a series of training sessions for multipliers, and a social media campaign.
The two aims of the project are to:
1. Understand the challenges of youth engagement and participation (voting) following the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, and develop tools to address it. The objectives related to the first aim are:
- To examine the challenges and motivations of young people, especially first-time voters, to engage in European initiatives and their interest in voting in the 2024 European Parliament elections.
- To develop and try out educational tools, a toolkit and communication actions to address the identified challenges.
2. And to develop an informal alliance of youth organisations that will work together on encouraging youth participation in democratic elections – both from peers and policy makers. The objectives related to the second aim are:
- To offer space for networking among youth organisations, and exchange good practices on educational and communication actions.
- To prepare an action plan of how youth organisations in partnership can reach as many first time voters as possible for EP elections 2024.