YouCount: Preston youngsters needed for European project which looks at improving the lives of young people
represents the UK, with the other countries being Norway, Sweden, Spain, Austria, Lithuania, Denmark, Hungary, Italy.Preston’s young people who join the project will get the opportunity to raise issues affecting them, talk about how socially included/excluded they feel, and be part of designing changes they think need to happen.
As well as influencing decisions made in the city, the project will help young people develop their communication and decision-making skills which they can take forward into their future careers.Participating young people, known as Young Citizen Scientists, will also get the opportunity to meet with other young people across Europe, identify possibilities for improving their communities and work together with policy and decision makers to create change.
Initially through participating in a series of training events and workshops starting at the end of October, young people decide on how the project develops. They can choose to organise a series of listening events, which might be film or pizza nights, a community performance, speaking to individuals/groups, surveys, or anything else that helps listen to young people’s voices.will include becoming part of a network of Young Citizen Scientists across Europe interested in change, contributing to how the research results are communicated, developing new ideas for change, as well gaining learning opportunities and social benefits.
The contributions which young people make to scientific evidence which address local, national and international issues, can have the potential to influence policy at all three levels.
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