"Project title: PART-Y Participation and Youth: Lab for Equal CitiesCall Erasmus plus 2020 KA205The project objectives are: 1: To strengthen youth involvement in European democratic life by promoting their right to the city, to public spaces from a ""generation equality"" and social inclusion perspective. - 2: To improve the innovation capacity in the activities proposed to young people and the internationalization of youth organizations in the countries participating in the project. The project focuses its attention on young people (girls and girls between 13 and 20 years) to trigger their participation in civic life by promoting their inclusion in the decision-making process and linked to the concept of ""generation equality"". This concept has been introduced by the United Nations agency UN Women to promote equal opportunities starting from the youngest. The project will work with young people and youth workers in city public space participative design, in two youth centres owned by the Municipalities of Trieste and Koper (PAG and CMK) to strengthen their role in involving young people in public life.The urban dimension of the project is also expressed by the exchange of good practices between cities, organizing field visits in Koper, Cork, Madrid, Trieste, Umea. Cities have a crucial role and an advantageous position in supporting change at the local level, shaping the daily life of citizens and citizens through the proximity of the service they provide. Matched with the field visits, he project develops 4 SHORT JOINT STAFF TRAINING for project partners and youth sector operators to back up the implementation of LOCAL WORKSHOPS (24 in total) which will take place in Trieste and Koper (PAG and CMK).This learning process (both for youth, youth workers), led by project partners skills and external expertise, will deliver two intellectual outputs:IO1 PART-Y Toolkit: how to build a communication campaign for a young and inclusive placemakingIO2 PART-Y: Learning methodology of placemaking through design thinking Events of dissemination of the project outputs will be organized in Koper, Trieste, Cork and Strasbourg.The project will make these open source outputs available to public authorities and organizations that work with young people as a tool for involving young people in participatory planning processes in public spaces and committing them to public life participation.The project partners are:Kallipolis Trieste www.kallipolis.net - applicantALDA Strasbourg https://www.alda-europe.eu/newSite/Basurama Madrid https://basurama.org/CMK Koper - no web site availableCork City CouncilMunicipality of TriesteMunicipality of UmeaPiNA Koper https://www.pina.si/"

URBREATH vision is to develop, implement, demonstrate, validate and replicate a comprehensive, community participation and NBS-driven urban revitalisation, resilience and climate neutrality paradigm that will ultimately radically enhance the social interactions, inclusion, equitability and liveability in cities. Specifically, the aim of the URBREATH project is to implement hybrid/Natural Base Solutions putting at the heart of the decision-making process the communities within a city. Advanced techniques, particularly Local Digital Twins and AI, and social innovation will facilitate the achievement of its vision. The project will have four phases: 1. Inception, 2. Development, 3. Piloting, 4. Transition. The preliminary results of a single Phase are evaluated within the following Phase so to allow for feedback before releasing the final version. The Inception phase will define the methodology to be followed for the project development and will deliver the project functional and technical requirements. The second phase will release the URBREATH technical framework, consisting of tools to manage the whole data value chain and to support end-users to collaborate on the design and creation of NBS to be used in the city/district. It will be used to monitor and take decisions on the NBS to be implemented/deployed in the Piloting phase (evidence-based decision making), that involves 4 Front Runner Cities in 4 different climatic zones: Cluj-Napoca (RO - Continental), Leuven (BE – Atlantic), Madrid (ES – Mediterranean), and Tallin (EE – Boreal). During the Transition phase, all the information, results and lessons learnt from the previous steps will be collected and analysed to provide recommendations and foster replication activities and the uptake of project outputs at the end of its lifespan. To this aim, 5 Follower Cities are involved: Aarhus (DK), Athens (EL), Kajaani (FI), Parma (IT), Pilsen (CZ), linked to the Front Runners for climatic zone and/or dimension.

<< Objectives >>(H)Activate the City wants to collect, develop and exchange good practices about youth participatory methods & bottom-up initiatives to intervene with youth in our public spaces in order to make them more climate resilient and to increase youth ownership & active citizenship within our cities. Thereby linking youth work to the citymaking world and increase the quality, innovation and recognition of our (urban) youth work. Providing our youth and youth workers with such tools. At the same we want<< Implementation >>Production of a transferable methodology, online and in a publication format, that fills the need of expertise transfer among youth workers wanting to work in the area of urban themes, active citizenship and social cohesion- Piloting and widely disseminating this methodology on a large scale (youth workers engaged withthe final methodology in a training of trainers in Urban Intervention Methods for Youth Work).- A final more punctual event for a larger audience.<< Results >>Mapping of areas of synergy between youth work & urban participation and urbanism - The co-creation of ready-to-use methods and tools to engage with young people in urban interventions and urban participation.- Guidelines for Youth Organisations/Urban Professionals to engage with each other.- Intensive capacity building of staff of the three consortium partners- Sustainable network developed and launched- Stimulated community dialogue on Urban Participation/Interventions with Youth Work

The overall objective of CONTESTED_TERRITORY is to form an international and intersectoral network of organisations from across Europe and Latin America on a joint research programme that pursues conceptual and empirical knowledge generation on innovative and sustainable bottom-up models of territorial development. We consider community-led practice enacting alternative knowledge as basis for a productive framework to grasp transformations of space and society supporting local-to-global knowledge diffusion. In particular, the RISE action will deliver novel understandings on how ordinary people produce innovative models for more sustainable and resilient environments. By this, we will learn how they shape, negotiate, imagine and collaboratively manage territories in contested and uneven power relations and how they progress models of social integration. The participants of the network will exchange and generate new knowledge to surpass mainstream understandings of development and contribute to scientific breakthroughs by integrating bottom-up strategies to adapt to risk, vulnerability and exclusion. Our progress will engage with and contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Agenda from alternative conceptual and practical perspectives. At the same time, we will nurture novel approaches to redefine the relations between humanity and the envi-ronment by including discourses emerging out of Latin American popular culture and indigenous cosmovision. This provides opportunities for academic and non-academic participants to actively shape practice and policies targeting more inclusive territorial development and different models of social cohesion. This will generate significant benefits for societies in Latin America, with transferable out-comes to Europe. Staff members participating in this action will develop new skills; be exposed to inspiring research environments, significantly widening their career perspectives in and beyond academia.