The EducAction project

The project aims to strengthen the role that schools and communities play in promoting youth participation and civic education. It provides students, teachers and families an educational pathway to acquire competencies and develop bottom-up proposals in order to improve services, spaces and goods they need. Moreover, the project implements dissemination, networking and advocacy actions at the local, national and international level through offline and online activities.

Evidence shows that young people, particularly those that come from socio-economic vulnerable areas, often feel disenfranchised and disillusioned with governing structures incapable of providing them with the opportunities and support they need. This has led to an increasing youth disengagement in formal or informal decision making processes that have an impact on their lives and the communities where they live. The school can play a key role in promoting youth civic engagement for example through the provision of citizenship education. Moreover, families, communities and institutions are central to the development of the youth and for encouraging further youth civic engagement but often they are not prepared to do so.