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Data: 27/05/2017
3) Entrepreneurship
Another important aspect for youth employability in the Western Balkans is developing an entrepreneurship mind-set. This can boost competitiveness, employment and create jobs especially for young people.
Questions to be tackled here include:
• How to instigate an entrepreneurial mind-set among young people in the Western Balkans?
• How to develop and implement policies that promote youth entrepreneurship?
• How to improve their business and digital skills through hands-on education and training?
• How to improve the impact of youth networks.
4) Youth Participation
Young people are often referred to as the “future generation”, a role where they are often pushed back to by education and political institutions. However they are also actors of today’s democracy. At the same time, a wide range of recent studies have shown that voting turnout, membership in political parties, interest in politics and trust in political institutions show a decline especially among young people. There is a growing belief among young people that the formal political structures aren’t working. When voting doesn’t seem to change anything, casting a ballot feels ineffective and disempowering. Faced with a political system that doesn’t respond or reflect them, young people are trapped in a vicious circle of disengagement. When young people don’t vote, politicians feel they can be ignored, and policy reflects this. Our exclusion from decision-making rises, and the legitimacy of our democracy is undermined.
Questions to be tackled here include:
• Are young people more disengaged than previous generations and if so, why?
• How do we make our political and societal decision-making structures more inclusive to young people?
• How do we empower young people to become more active citizens?
Criteria forparticipation & application procedure
• Members of youth or student organisations will be favoured during the selection process.
• Applicants who participated in previous conferences (Paris, Ljubljana) will be favoured during the selection process.
!!! IMPORTANT: Participants coming from member organisations of the European Youth Forum will be selected by the European Youth Forum.
Costs:
The European Commission will make the necessary travel and accommodation arrangements for selected participants. Please refrain from making any specific individual travel or accommodation arrangements. Catering will be provided during the Conference.
Working language: English.
SCADENZA: 5th of June 2017.
[email protected]
Phone: 00386-(0)1-430 47 47
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/6578
More information about the background activities related to this activity can be found here: https://www.salto-youth.net/rc/see/connectingpolicy/europewbyouthmeeting/
If your organisation is a member of the EYF, please apply for this activity at this link on the EYF website: http://database.youthforum.org/public/events
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