As usual, we are busy with all our projects and work, and we have recently successfully finished yet another youth exchange! This one was called Youth Democracy Academy, bringing together people from Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, Sweden and of course Spain! This was a special one, because the theme was youth participation in politics, especially related to the upcoming European elections in May. The participants were young people who are especially interested and involved in the topic, most of them campaigning at home, promoting voter participation in the EU elections.
During the project we not only built a great team, but did a wide variety of politics and elections-related activities. We interviewed people on the street about their knowledge about the EU and then tried to convince them to vote. We created promotional material that we used on the street and in the faculties to get people to think about European issues.
Moreover, we spent a lot of time contemplating how we could better campaign in our own countries and we tried to come up with the most creative campaign ideas through some unusual means: creating joke political parties, promoting elections in the world of Game of Thrones and Star Wars or rapping about politics in our countries. Clearly, not all of these ideas translate directly into real-world campaigns, but we think it was a great mental exercise and we came up with a ton of ideas that participants can take home and use. And most importantly? It seems like everyone had fun, because that's what is going to motivate people to act!
Enjoy a small selection of the tons and tons of photos I shot during the exchange:
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