When: June 2015 - December 2017

Where: Various countries

Website: www.step4youth.eu 

Contact person: Gosia Zubowicz-Thull This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Project description:

The STEP project addresses the need of public organisations to effectively open their decision-making procedures that have an environmental impact to young people. The overall objective of the project is to develop and pilot test an eParticipation cloud platform, enhanced with web / social media mining, gamification, machine translation, and visualisation features, which will promote the societal and political participation of young people in the decision-making processes on environmental issues.

Four pilots in an operational environment have been selected for the deployment of STEP solution in 4 locations: Italy, Spain, Greece, and Turkey, with the participation of one regional authority, 3 municipalities, and an association of municipalities. The pilots are expected to involve testing by 8.200 young users and 85 policy makers.

Aim and objectives:

The aim of the project is to develop and test an eParticipation cloud platform, which will promote the societal and political participation of young people in the decision-making processes on environmental issues.

Objectives:

• To enable public authorities to quickly open their decision-making processes to young people.
• To enable young citizens to participate in decision-making on issues with environmental impact.
• To develop engagement and motivation strategies for increasing youth participation in environmental decision making.
• To pilot test the services in an operational environment in terms of technical, organisational and legal feasibility, with the participation of end users (young citizens) and pollicy makers.
• To assess the usability, effectiveness and impact of the project in embedding open engagement in public sector processes, and to identity the key barriers for wide scale deployment.
• To ensure appropiate dissemination and realistic exploitation of project activities and results.

Participating organisations:

• Draxis Environmental S.A. (Greece)
• Youth and Environment Europe (Czech Republic)
• Kairos Future AB (Sweden)
• Linguatec GMBH (Germany)
• Centre for Research and Techonology Hellas (Greece)
• Inmark Europa S.A. (Spain)
• Sampas Bilisim Ve Iletisim (Turkey)
• University of Abertay Dundee (UK)
• Hatay Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey)
• Region of Crete (Greece)
• Comune di Sant'Agata del Bianco (Italy)
• Ajuntament de Mollet del Valles (Spain)
• Ayuntamiento de Valdemoro (Spain)
• planO2 Consulting Services Private Company AB (Greece)

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TAKE PART IN THE STEP CONTEST TILL 31st DECEMBER 2017!

Promotional materials:

• STEP leaflet 1 I STEP leaflet 2
• STEP poster
• Newsletters  

  Issue no. 1 - November 2015	Issue no. 2 - July 2016	Issue no. 3 - April 2017

• STEP promo video 

Funder:

This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 649493