About

The ‘Young Service Designers’ (YSD) project has been co-funded by European Youth Together (EYT) Sub – programme of ERASMUS+ Programme – under Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency – EACEA (GA n°624732).

YSD project’s main objectives were the following:

• Boost hyperlocal structures for tackling local specific challenges, putting the youth at the centre of the renewal of their cities.
• Engage – connect – empower young people to play a more active role in their local community.
• Engage young people as co-designers and doers of pilot actions for tailoring public services.
• Strengthen authentic democratic activities in 6 cities.
• Include disadvantaged groups.
• Build a sustainable and green Europe.

The YSD project addressed these objectives by targeting young people (16-20 y.o.), youth workers, cities & local administration. The approach was meant to involve young people to propose sustainable and innovative solutions for their cities, with the support of the local administrations and youth workers.

The approach was meant to involve young people to propose sustainable and innovative solutions for their cities, with the support of the local administrations and youth workers.

Youth workers had an opportunity to experiment new methods and acquire knowledge and skills to attract the interest of young people in active citizenship and to stimulate their desire in proposing solutions for tackling local challenges.

Youngsters acquired new capabilities with YSD, providing them with the necessary tools to become active citizens and to participate in local decision-making. One of the examples is this web app.

Stakeholders such as public authorities, schools and universities, enterprises and local organizations will be involved in the activities and informed about the new methodologies experimented.