On 13th day of September at 10 am we started the most important part of the project – conference in Pałac pod Dębami in Zalasowa. It was named “You(TH) decide!” again. The amount of participants was more than 100, which includes authorities like mayor of Ryglice commune – Paweł Augustyn, secretary of the commune – Seweryn Gutkowski, vice-mayor of Tuchów commune – Wiktor Chrzanowski and heads of our schools.
The meeting has started with Seweryn Gustkowski speech, which has introduced a topic of the conference and then we could listen some words from mayor of the commune. Then, we could see a presentation about Ustrzyki Dolne. The next step of our meeting was participants’ speeches and presentations. People from Czech Republic, Hungary , Slovakia and Poland talked about themselves, their experience from local meetings, their practice with youth participation. They encourage youth in audiance to involve actively in local life.
The next stage of the meeting was break when everyone could eat something or drink some tea or coffee.
After the break 4 representatives from each country shared their reflections about youth life and their involving in local activities.
We ended the meeting with lunch, when everybody could taste polish snacks and dishes like dumplings with mushrooms, pancakes with cheese or jam.
After the conference we met again in Bistuszowa to end up our project. We shared our reflections and thoughts about that meetings and we said goodbye to everybody.
That was really short time when we could be together, but all of us think that for sure it wasn’t a waste of time!
