<< Objectives >>This project aims to increase youth (including youth with disabilities and non-organized youth) participation in the decision-making process through a series of events where they can develop their competencies through NFU methods. Together with partners we share the best practice of youth policy implementation<< Implementation >>Each partner will have to organize 1 study visit to share experience and 2 Youth Forum events, also we will meet in planning visits where we update the concept. The communication campaign will help to inform and attract youth to the planned events where we will talk about how to improve youth policy in partner countries and share experiences with each other.<< Results >>2 Youth Forum in every partner city;3 study visits to share experience in youth policy and youth empowerment and participation Increased Youth participation in partner cities;6 proposals (2 per partner) on how to improve conditions for youth and make it more youth-friendly;Unified communication campaign in partner regions about youth participation and opinion;Intercultural learning between partners; At least 25 different youngsters will be included in different phases of the project

<< Objectives >>The project YOUTH COUNCIL - PARTICIPATION IN EUROPE is aiming to reinforce links between policy practice and research. Project activities will strengthen the youth councils in participating organizations' municipalities. Stronger youth councils will help to increase youth participation in the decision-making process and youth involvement in active civic participation. Also, the publicity of the youth council will be improved and more youngsters will know about the importance of the youth council<< Implementation >>The main activities of this project are:Analysis of youth council activities in partner countriesRecommendation package to participating organizations on how to improve youth council work and qualityStudy visits to partner countriesMultipliers events in partner countries Dissemination activities<< Results >>- Organized three study visits to Norway, Lithuania. In each study visit will participate 2 people from each partner organization and 2 youth council members- We will make one analysis of youth councils about the current situation and also analyse the youth policy system in each country regarding the youth councils and make surveys and focus groups with youth council members,- 2 proposals per participating organization to municiplaity.- Better youth participation in democrative processes.

"The ""Cities for YOUth"" project focuses on the exchange of good practices on youth policies at the local government level from various European countries and the development of soft skills and international cooperation between youth and people responsible for youth policy. The project will involve three local governments: Starachowice (Poland), Santarem (Portugal) and Klaipeda (Lithuania) and a two non-governmental organization from Spain and Greece. All partners have extensive experience in the implementation of youth policy and activities targeted at young people. The project will include 3 Transnational Project Meetings concerning project coordination, youth policy, Youth City Councils, activities for youth and non-formal education. The meetings will be attended by city authorities, officials, people responsible for decisions and youth. Additionally, there will be a training for young people in Spain about soft skills and generating ideas. Young people from different countries will have the task to develop an initiative that will be carried out jointly during the celebration of the European Youth Capital in 2021 in Klaipeda. At the end of the project there will be a publication presenting a description of youth policies in each partner city and a description of project activities."

‘SUMP-PLUS’ is a three-year RIA, designed to address urban mobility related challenges and to exploit new opportunities, by developing a strong, rigorous evidence base through a co-created City Laboratories approach (to be demonstrated in different EU cities) building on the strengths of the existing SUMPs and SULPs. SUMP-PLUS will develop and apply transition pathways towards more sustainable cities taking into account the need to establish stronger links with other urban system components. It has 4 primary policy objectives: 1. To develop and apply a set of context-specific mobility transformation pathways that will enable cities to map out a practical implementation pathway. 2. To demonstrate how cities can develop stronger links with other urban system components (education, health, retail, land use planning, etc.) - while taking into account disruptive technological and contextual developments - so that urban mobility and accessibility can be delivered more comprehensively, efficiently and effectively. 3. To identify new solutions that will increase efficiency and sustainability, in both the freight and passenger sectors. 4. To identify and demonstrate new partnerships and business models that enable various mobility objectives to be met cost-effectively through appropriate public/private sector partnerships These objectives will be met and demonstrated through a programme of trials and comprehensive evaluation, in six co-created City Laboratories. This requires achieving 4 operational objectives: developing appropriate urban governance arrangements and advanced analytics; extensive stakeholder engagement and co-creation of outputs; producing enhanced SUMP-PLUS guidance matching the different needs and maximising impact through a targeted range of dissemination, capacity building, knowledge transfer and legacy exploitation activities.

Port Cities can be seen as multidimensional laboratories where challenges connected with urban mobility are more complex due to the dual system of gravity centre: the city, the port, not to mention their shared hinterland.These peculiarities are at once a challenge and an opportunity, as they provide scope for planning, researching and implementing integrated mobility solutions in distinctively complex urban contexts. Civitas PORTIS designs, demonstrates and evaluates integrated sets of sustainable mobility measures in 5 major port cities located on the North Sea (Aberdeen and Antwerp), the Mediterranean Sea (Trieste), the Black Sea (Constanta), and Baltic Sea (Klaipeda). The project also involves a major international follower port city on the East China Sea (Ningbo). Thanks to the Civitas Initiative, the partner cities expect to prove that more efficient and sustainable mobility is conducive to the establishment of vital and multi-modal hubs for urban, regional, national and International movements of passengers and goods. To do this, they establish integrated living laboratories clustering local measures according to four major aspects of sustainable urban mobility: 1. Governance: to increase port-city collaborative planning and participation, leading to enhanced forms of SUMPs. 2. People: to foster less car-dependent mobility styles, leading to modal shift in favour of collective and more active transport. 3. Transport system: to strengthen the efficiency of road traffic management to/from the port and through the city, and foster the use of clean vehicles. 4. Goods: to enhance logistics and freight transport, improving the efficiency and coordination of city, port and regional freight movements. Working with port cities, Civitas PORTIS will generate a strong and twofold replication potential: 1) specifically to other port cities, and 2) more generally to cities presenting major transport nodes and attractors for the benefit of the whole CIVITAS Initiative.