Youthful Cities Commission ready for the new year

by Paulina Szewczyk| p.szewczyk@gdynia.pl

Renewed Youthful Cities Commission

ready for the new year by Dmitrijs Zverevs | Dmitrijs.Zverevs@riga.lv

In November Youthful Cities Commission met for its second meeting this year, which was held online, to finalise Commission’s transformation process and to agree on the action plan for 2023.

Firstly, the thematic clusters were set up in the Commission. So far there are 3 of them – “Youth participation”, “Youth spaces” and “International youth work (mobility projects)”. Clusters are expected to operate in a self-managed way, mostly online, and focus on experience exchange between the cities and development of new cooperation projects.

During previous meetings of the Commission, cities have emphasized the necessity to create more space for direct involvement of their youth workers and young people into Commission’s work. The clusters provide perfect framework for that, and we encourage also those UBC cities who haven’t been part of the Commission previously because of administrative capacity to give a thought to joining a cluster.

The dates for the first meeting of the clusters have been set already (and registration will open shortly):

- Youth participation – 1st March, 14:00 CET; - Youth spaces – 2nd March, 14:00 CET; - International youth work – 8th March, 14:00 CET.

Secondly, to introduce the work of the Commission to all interested parties, on 18th January (14:00 CET) there will be an online informative event about the Commission and activities planned in 2023. If you are curious to learn more about upcoming events in the region and opportunities available for your city, your youth workers or your young people, please do join us (information about registration and agenda, as always, will be published on the web page of the UBC). other UBC cities when it comes to innovation, youth participation and inclusion.

2023 will be a vivid and dynamic year in terms of youth policy and youth participation in the Baltic Sea Region, and we encourage other UBC cities to join us on this journey.