Youth
We encourage cities to take up the challenge of developing and implementing innovative, comprehensive and crosscutting youth policies to provide the resources and services that this population segment needs in order to attain full citizenship.
Experiences - News
Codepillars Club: a space to encourage girls to study science and technology
The city of Caguas is promoting the Codepillars Club project with the aim of encouraging girls to take an interest in professions related to science, technology, engineering and design. [...]
Participatory processes and co-management of spaces for youth
The strategic management of youth facilities through a collective approach to empower youth associations and groups. [...]
Microtheatre
Dissemination and professionalisation project for new playwrights and young theatre performers. [...]
Youth Strategy
A free program that aims to improve the conditions of employment and educational inclusion of young people and also adults and thus facilitate their transition from the educational to the work world, through an individual guidance process that accompanies the participants. [...]
ASPA Program: socio-educational and pre-employment support for adolescents
An initiative whose purpose is the implementation of a set of preventive actions, in order to compensate for the personal, family and social deficits present in adolescents and young people who are in a situation of social risk. [...]
Civic Practicums
Students in secondary education participate actively in the social development of their city by carrying out humanitarian activities linked to very different environaments (social, health, preventive, education, culture, environment, maintenance and cleaning, etc.) in public or non-profit entities. [...]
Open until Down
A program for healthy and free-of-charge recreation activities for young people from 13 to 35. It is developed by and for this group, based on leisure-time education through sport and cultural activities that are socio-educational and take place on the weekends, especially at night. [...]
Socio-Educative Youth Inclusion Programme
A proposal addressed to young people from 13 to 18 years old, to foster the return to school and social inclusion of young people who have left the formal education system or who are in school but not attending regularly. [...]
We Propose!
A project that invites secondary school students of the subject of Geography to identify the problems in the area of land-use planning, encouraging them to develop possible solutions to improve the construction of local policies. [...]
Study-Work Program
Young people who abandoned the school have a new opportunity to finish the Compulsory Secondary Education, through the incentive of offering them a labor contract while learning a trade. [...]
KAPS
With the aim of fighting against inequalities, college students perform actions in the community in which they live in order to improve coexistence. In exchange they receive a room in a shared apartment, at an affordable price. [...]
You matter to me
Through this programme early teen mothers and fathers are provided with access and permanence to the formal educational system. [...]