Political Youth - Documentary (2020)

The last decade in Europe has seen young people on the front lines of social and political changes. Unwilling to accept the status-quo, many young people are now inventing a new politics across borders, in the name of social justice and a livable future. http://politicalyouth.eu/ *** EURYKA is a cross-national research project which provides systematic and practice-related knowledge about how inequalities mediate youth political participation. It aims to study the relations between inequalities and young people’s ways of doing politics and to advance scenarios for future democratic models and political systems in Europe that are more inclusive for young people. It suggests novel democratic models to help reimagine a more inclusive European politics. It brings together researchers and civil society practitioners from nine European countries: France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. With the aim of strengthening European democratic life, the project intends to reach a better understanding of the conditions, processes, and mechanisms underpinning how young people do politics: how do they form opinions and take action to bring about social and political change? At the core of EURYKA’s conceptual framework lies the idea of youth political participation as forms of coping mechanism for dealing with inequalities. The project, thus, investigates the norms, values, attitudes and behaviors underpinning such mechanisms and how these relate to issues of democracy, power, politics, policy-making, social and political participation (online and offline) and the organization of economic, social and private life. Watch more stories about political youth at our web-documentary: www.politicalyouth.eu This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 727025.