YEE participated in the third STEP project meeting which took place last week on 11th and 12th of February 2016. The meeting was hosted by the municipality of Mollet del Valles in Spain and it gathered all 14 partners of the project from Greece, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Sweden, UK and Czech Republic.

The discussions in the first day of the meeting focused on the technical aspects of the project and the development of the eParticipation platform. Partners presented the platform's features that will be available for the users, such as social media mining tool, machine translation or text-to-speech feature.

During the second day of the meeting we talked about exploitation and the development of business strategies for the project. Then we dedicated significant time to the dissemination of the project. Partners were divided into four groups and brainstormed on the final name and slogan for the eParticipation platform. Afterwards all partners agreed on an action plan for the next steps in promoting the project.

The STEP eParticipation platform will give the chance to young people across Europe to share their opinions on environmental issues in their community, get in touch with policymakers, make proposals and trigger changes in their towns or region.

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