Re-mind Your Business
Project Organiser: Coconut
The youth exchange will take place between 8th and the 16th of May 2025 in Weicherdange, Luxembourg.
Overall goal: Through the project, we aim to untangle the link between advocacy and youth participation, showing their complementarity. By engaging in advocacy, young people can actively participate in civic life, contributing to issues that matter to them and having a voice in shaping their communities and society as a whole
Project objectives:
- Assess current forms, strategies and practices of advocacy, as well as their realities and ecosystems at EU and national levels.
- Highlight how young people can influence national and European decision-making processes.
- Improve young people’s digital skills by exploring innovative online participation tools and practices.
- Encourage young people to create and defend advocacy techniques, drawing on case studies of existing campaigns.
- Stimulate critical thinking, by developing the ability to analyse online information.
Working language: English.
Number of participants: 4+1
Ideal Participant profile:
- 18-25
- Whо аre neither students, emрlоyees nоr trаinees – demonstrating a partiсular interest in demoсratiс engagement and participation
Important information:
Accommodation, food, materials, and travel costs (up to the maximum allowed amount) are covered.
Extremely important: Keep all travel receipts and tickets for reimbursement, as the participant must keep the travel document to and from the destination and hand it over / send it to the project organizer according their instructions.
Insurance: Travel insurance is NOT paid by the organizers or subsequently reimbursed. Each participant is obliged to take out health insurance, which is valid in Luxembourg.
- Only purchase tickets after receiving written confirmation from the organizers.
- All participants must attend all sessions and participate in dissemination activities afterwards.
