Idea Challenge 2021
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Environment and sustainability | Youth participation and empowerment
Exploring Pathways to an Ecological Renaissance
Vukovar in Croatian means sacrifice, war memories, divided community tied up to the past. Past engulfs the present tightly as 2021 marks 30 years since the city fell. Mindful of unhealed wounds our…
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Community development | Youth participation and empowerment
YOUNG diverCITY
YOUNG diverCITY is a structured dialogue experience: an horizontal and inclusive space within which 300 young people, aged between 12 and 29,coming from diverse backgrounds, are able to engage with p…
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Community development | Education and research
Academy of dialogue
Our aim is to create the Academy of dialogue as a platform to teach youth workers and teachers to use their authority wisely and to support young people in entering the dialogues and expressing their…
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Arts and cultural activities | Youth participation and empowerment
Danube Design Lab
In Ruse, deindustrialization has left the river detached from the city, while career and social opportunities for youth have diminished. The Danube Design Lab empowers socially excluded youth to chan…
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Human rights | Social inclusion
Women for Women - W4W
W4W is about giving voice and empowering women who have experienced homelessness and are in the process of recovery. They want to support other women who are now in a homeless situation, by creating …
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Human rights | Social inclusion
Olhão + Equal
The project will support the creation of a Municipal Plan for Non-Discrimination, as a public policy for the promotion of human rights and social inclusion, providing a response to tackle growing rad…
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Education and research | Social inclusion
All Equal Under the Sun
Roma people in the village of Napkor can only break the cycle of poverty through getting a quality education for their kids. It is crucial for them to learn to get their voice heard. Our objectives a…
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Community development
Taking the fear out of local politics
Engaged citizens who want to serve their communities as local representatives often know little about how local government works. They want to use their vision and goodwill in local office but they a…
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Community development | Environment and sustainability
Dialogue & Action for the Future
The small village is facing the challenge of growth and development in a changing world and is continuously decreasing in terms of demographics, local economic and social structures. But, even the sm…
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Arts and cultural activities | Community development
EVERYONE’S OASIS. From being apart to being a part
Desert oases are a peaceful meeting place and a crossroads of cultures. The project aims to promote inclusiveness by fostering mutual exchange between different ethnic groups, with culture as a main …
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Community development | Environment and sustainability
Connecting Roots
Rural areas of Castelló province are lacking innovative initiatives that make use and take care of their heritage and help to stop depopulation. We aim to get together the rural communities in a part…
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Environment and sustainability | Social inclusion
Burning issues
Energy poverty is a considerable challenge in North-East Hungary. It is a topic at the intersection of various social, housing and climate policies, therefore the process of finding the right tools t…
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Environment and sustainability | Youth participation and empowerment
Make It Green Lesvos
The world is racing towards carbon neutrality by 2050 to reverse climate change. We want the Youth to be the forefront in this race. Local and refugee youth in Lesvos have few opportunities to learn …
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Community development | Youth participation and empowerment
Rise and shine
Our challenge is to engage youth in the local decision making processes and the development of the community. We want to give them a chance to actively take part in solving community challenges. We w…
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Community development | Youth participation and empowerment
Gutenberg Network - Incubator for Youth Initiative
The goal is to equip high-schools students with the necessary actionable skills and tools to become active agents of positive change in the local community in their respective 14 small- and medium-si…
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Environment and sustainability | Youth participation and empowerment
Trails of Participation-Sentieri di Partecipazione
Depopulation, lack of opportunities for youth, isolation and neglected commons are all challenges faced by the 7 villages involved in our project. We want to revive our communities, reconnect them an…
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Community development | Youth participation and empowerment
