How to strengthen the active participation of young people to the decisional trials?
Is it possible to contribute to the interaction among citizens and done political representative through the net?
The e-partecipation put into effect in Palermo by the We all count Europe project turns to an end.
What is Kuorum?
Kuorum is an online platform for political participation which allows a direct contact between politicians and citizens. The main aim of the European project We all count Europe is to make this communication and co-design tool known and enlarge citizens’ participation as much as possible, also including disadvantaged groups. In these two years of project implementation, the platform has been introduced to groups of politicians and young people and tested in five European cities.
On Kuorum.org concrete proposals can be published and opened to debate, but you can also organize countries, send newsletter to find supporters for your initiatives: all this with the purpose to increase the democratic sharing, the collective management of the city and the political transparency.
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WECE activities in Palermo
In the last months, we arranged two cycles of activities both online and face to face with young citizens, local organisations and politicians who joined the initiative.
The last of these meetings was the second debate between young people and politicians was hold on the 18th September at CESIE office.
Participants worked together on some proposals previously published on Kuorum following the methodology called World Cafè. Based on mutual listening and collaboration, this workshop produced interesting results for both groups:
- politicians answered positively to the participants feedback, integrating some ideas resulted from the debate into the original proposals;
- it was an occasion for young people to influence the decision-making process and the local political activity.
We all Count Europe project partners met in Konstanz, Germany, on October 5 and 6 for the final meeting of the project. They shared the results of the latest local activities in the five countries, the improvements made to the Kuorum platform and finally presented the train the trainers material developed during the project.
Open debates
At this moment Kuorum in Palermo counts the active participation of two politicians, two local organizations and various citizens. In total have been published and opened to debate 12 proposals dealing with very different topics: introduction of fulltime at school, reuse of public buildings and spaces, strengthening of town memory, establishment of urban gardens and much more.
PUSH.’s proposals are the results of the Roundtables organized within the Urban Thinkers Campus, organised the last April in Palermo. These are ideas elaborated by citizens, professionals, students, representatives of the third sector and are all aimed at improving the cultural and artistic heritage, public spaces and community life in Palermo.
- Palermo teaser
- Arabo Normanno Accessibile
- Il racconto dei mercati
- Orti didattici
- Alla ricerca dell’orto perduto
- Palermo smart working network
- La scialata di borgata
- Destruction agency
- Children Wall
Il Palermo Youth Center ha avanzato un piano di riuso a fini sociali del complesso di beni pubblici inutilizzati per rispondere a bisogni quali l’emergenza abitativa, la carenza di spazi aggregativi/culturali, di centri servizi per cittadini e servizi di welfare a soggetti svantaggiati.
Tonino Russo proposal La conoscenza come forma di liberazione draws attention to the services and skills gap in education field in southern Italy and to the need to strengthen the educational offer of schools, especially primary and secondary, by equipping the school system for the full time and prolonged time.
Francesco Bertolino with Le vie della memoria re-launches his project aimed to enhance the memory of the places. Through a QR Code and using smartphones, people can access the biographical-historical information of key figures to which the sites are titled. The information is written by the students of the schools involved.
Although the project is nearing its completion, the Kuorum platform will remain accessible to everyone even after the official closing of the project.
You can still interact with local political and civil society actors, register on Kuorum and comment on the proposals!
Watch the videos below to discover what do Francesco Bertolino, Gianluca Cangemi and Theresa Küntzle think about Kuorum
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About WE all Count Europe
WE all count Europe (WE), co-financed by the European Commission, Erasmus+ Programme, Key Action 3 – Support to the policy reform, to promote youth participation to the political dialogue.
The project has been implemented in Palermo and other four cities in Europe: Mannheim (Germany), Innsbruck (Austria), Kaunas (Lithuania) e Toledo (Spain).
It was developed by 5 organisations:
- Università di Costanza (Germany, coordinator),
- Kuorum Social S.L. (Spain, technological partner),
- Verein Multikulturell (Austria, training chief partner),
- Social Innovation Fund (Lithuania, training partner),
- CESIE (Italy, training partner).
For further information
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