Starting with this issue you can find a new column in the newsletter: the tips to engage young people. One of Mindchangers’ main objectives is to support LAs and CSOs in designing successful projects engaging youths. After 650+ questionnaires, 60 structured interviews, 114 subgranted projects and thousands of young people involved, we share with you some useful elements to keep in mind when designing an activity for and with youth.
_Tips to engage young people
When it comes to engagement on climate change, young people favour taking part in demonstrations, changing their personal transport and eating habits, and sharing information on social media. Forms of engagement related to migration are more focused on volunteering, with young people helping to provide medical, social, logistical or legal assistance to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees.
Planning a great activity is not enough, you have to make people know about it! The way you communicate does influence how young people get engaged in the actions you propose. Keep up-to-date with young people’s communication preferences and adapt your message to the channel. You can also involve young people as your testimonials and collaborate with young communicators.
_Projects
In Tournai, we're changing the world at our level!
In Tournai, we are particularly attached to the notion of peaceful community life. It means being open to others and their diversity, as well as mutual cultural enrichment. This issue is particularly relevant in today’s world, which is characterised by population movements and the reduction of distances thanks to technology. Let’s discover “Tournai Le Monde”, a social and artistic project from the City of Tournai which focuses on migration and living together.
If it's Friday, it must be "Green movie" time!
JCI Craiova has been organising an itinerant non-conventional cinema in both rural and urban locations to raise awareness among young people about environmental protection, action and engagement. This activity is part of their project CleanUp Craiova.
Volunteers from Turin to Senegal
Last summer Ilaria and Alessandro from the association Renken – along with Edoardo (Fridays for Future Torino) and Iris (activist and volunteer of MAIS NGO) embarked on a journey to Senegal. They had the opportunity to stay at the Nioko Bokk eco-village, spending wonderful days learning local ecological practices, receiving training, and engaging in activities with the children of Malika (Dakar). In this interview (in Italian) you can have a glimpse into their experience.
Sustainable leisure activities foster inclusion
“Greening Gratte” is all about inclusion through sustainable leisure activities. The project brings together non-disabled and mentally disabled young people from different socio-cultural backgrounds around the themes of migration and climate. Ecological transition must be inclusive and leave no one behind: that’s the ambition of the project that you can discover in this article!
Discover PrODDige's volunteers productions!
Young people of more than 11 nationalities were mobilized around the SDGs in the 2022-2023 promotion of PrODDige. This project is led by the SCD in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, in partnership with ADOS and the UFCV for this edition. Discover their achievements in a booklet just published!