Dear readers,

On the 30th of April 2018, the official project period of PARTISPACE has ended. Therefore, this last official newsletter focuses on documenting findings, final events and products of the research on formal, non-formal and informal spaces and styles of young people’s participation in European cities that we have conducted between May 2015 and April 2018.

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Summary of Partispace outcomes

There is widespread concern across Europe about the future of democracy, and in particular about young people’s apparent failure to participate, often attributed to lack of motivation or capability. The PARTISPACE project shares the concern, but questions the diagnosis. It starts instead from an assumption that the dominant understanding of youth participation in research, policy and practice is too narrow, …

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Video

Based on audiovisual material produced by and with young people in the context of participatory action research projects a video has been produced documenting the young people’s views of youth participation.

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Event

Reports and Working Papers

End of April, PARTISPACE has published five reports documenting thematic and comparative analysis of the empirical data as well as a working papers:

- The Report “Young people’s participation: learning from action research in eight European cities” documents the evaluation of 18 participatory action research projects conducted by and with young people

McMahon, G., Percy-Smith, B., Thomas, N., Becevic, Z., Liljeholm Hansson, S. and Forkby, T. (2018) Young people’s participation: learning from action research in eight European cities. Partispace Deliverable D 5.3. Available online at: https://zenodo.org/record/1240227#.WusTKtRubcs

- The Comparative report on “local constellations of youth participation” has analysed the influence of local and national youth policy structures and youth. Apart from this, functionings and functions of formal settings of youth participation have been studied

Lüküslü, D., Pais, A., Tuorto, D., Walther, A., Loncle, P. (2018) Local constellations of youth participation in comparative perspective. PARTISPACE Deliverable D 6.1. Available online at: https://zenodo.org/record/1240191#.WusSwdRubcs

- The Thematic report “A Place in Public: Spatial Dynamics of Youth Participation in Eight European Cities” has analysed dynamics and implications of young people’s practices of appropriating public spaces

Zimmermann, Dominic; Andersson, Björn; De Luigi, Nicola; Piro, Valeria; Reutlinger, Christian (2018). A Place in Public: Spatial Dynamics of Youth Participation in Eight European Cities. Partispace Deliverable 6.2. Available online at: https://zenodo.org/record/1240165#.WusSW9Rubcs

- The thematic report “Styles: Young people’s participation as lived practice” analyses how different practices of young people in the public sphere emerge from different social positions, identities and recognition by others

Rowley, H., Pitti, I., Mengilli, Y., Becevic., Z., Martelli, A., Martin, C., Osmanoglu, B., Percy-Smith, B., Popivanov, B. (2018) Styles: Young people’s participation as lived practice. PARTISPACE Deliverable D 6.3. Available online at: https://zenodo.org/record/1240198#.WusS-NRubcs

- The thematic report “Biographies of young people’s participation in eight European cities” has elaborated different clusters of careers of participation of young people as well as dimensions of biographical meaning making

Cuconato, M., McMahon, G., Becquet, V., Ilardo, M., Liljeholm Hansson, S., Lütgens, J. and von Schwanenflügel, L. (2018) Biographies of young people’s participation in eight European cities. Partispace Deliverable D 6.2. Available online at: https://zenodo.org/record/1240170#.WusSj9Rubcs

The working paper “Re-Thinking Youth Participation” draws the different thematic perspectives together and summaries the contributions of the PARTISPACE for a better theoretical understanding of youth participation and for adequate support through policy and practice. Partispace (2018): Re-Thinking Youth Participation – contributions of PARTISPACE. Available for downolad here  

Find out all the thematic reports in the download section of Partispace website.

Products for policy and practice

 Apart from research reports there also two new documents available for download addressing actors from policy and practice

• The policy brief gives an overview over the findings of the research conducted in PARTISPACE and develops recommendations for policy and practice concerned with youth participation.

• The training module on youth participation is based on PARTISPACE findings and addresses actual and future professionals working with young people and aiming at making a difference in empowering young people’s social, civic and political participation.

Selected in-depth case studies conducted in PARTISPACE

Forthcoming publications

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