"Project title: PART-Y Participation and Youth: Lab for Equal CitiesCall Erasmus plus 2020 KA205The project objectives are: 1: To strengthen youth involvement in European democratic life by promoting their right to the city, to public spaces from a ""generation equality"" and social inclusion perspective. - 2: To improve the innovation capacity in the activities proposed to young people and the internationalization of youth organizations in the countries participating in the project. The project focuses its attention on young people (girls and girls between 13 and 20 years) to trigger their participation in civic life by promoting their inclusion in the decision-making process and linked to the concept of ""generation equality"". This concept has been introduced by the United Nations agency UN Women to promote equal opportunities starting from the youngest. The project will work with young people and youth workers in city public space participative design, in two youth centres owned by the Municipalities of Trieste and Koper (PAG and CMK) to strengthen their role in involving young people in public life.The urban dimension of the project is also expressed by the exchange of good practices between cities, organizing field visits in Koper, Cork, Madrid, Trieste, Umea. Cities have a crucial role and an advantageous position in supporting change at the local level, shaping the daily life of citizens and citizens through the proximity of the service they provide. Matched with the field visits, he project develops 4 SHORT JOINT STAFF TRAINING for project partners and youth sector operators to back up the implementation of LOCAL WORKSHOPS (24 in total) which will take place in Trieste and Koper (PAG and CMK).This learning process (both for youth, youth workers), led by project partners skills and external expertise, will deliver two intellectual outputs:IO1 PART-Y Toolkit: how to build a communication campaign for a young and inclusive placemakingIO2 PART-Y: Learning methodology of placemaking through design thinking Events of dissemination of the project outputs will be organized in Koper, Trieste, Cork and Strasbourg.The project will make these open source outputs available to public authorities and organizations that work with young people as a tool for involving young people in participatory planning processes in public spaces and committing them to public life participation.The project partners are:Kallipolis Trieste www.kallipolis.net - applicantALDA Strasbourg https://www.alda-europe.eu/newSite/Basurama Madrid https://basurama.org/CMK Koper - no web site availableCork City CouncilMunicipality of TriesteMunicipality of UmeaPiNA Koper https://www.pina.si/"