EUth – Tools and Tips for Mobile and Digital Youth Participation in and across Europe Project acronym: EUth Project no: 649594 WP 8: Trieste-Koper cross-border and Heart of Slovenia pilots setup Formal Deliverable D8.1 Pilots setup Distribution: Restricted Version 0.9 12.07.2016 Start date of project: 01.03.2015 Duration: 36 months Authors: Carlo Sessa, Margaret Pesuit /ISIS, Giovanni Delli Zotti/University of Trieste, Zorana Medaric/University of Primorska, Anita Molka /Heart of Slovenia, Luis Guillermo Martinez Ballesteros/KTH EUth 649594 D8.1 – Trieste-Koper cross-border and Heart of Slovenia pilot setup Section 0 Change Control Version # Date Author Organisation 0.0 07.04.2016 Carlo Sessa ISIS 0.1 19.04.2016 Carlo Sessa, Margaret Pesuit ISIS 0.2 20.04.2016 Giovanni Delli Zotti University Trieste 0.3 21.04. 2016 Zorana Medaritc University Primoska 0.4 22.04.2016 Anita Molka Hearth of Slovenia 0.5 25.04.2016 Carlo Sessa ISIS 0.6 02.05.2016 Carlo Sessa ISIS 0,7 04.05.2016 Margaret Pesuit ISIS 0.8 06.05.2016 Carlo Sessa ISIS 0.9 11.07.2016 Luis Guillermo Martinez KTH Ballesteros 1.0 12.07.2016 Carlo Sessa ISIS Change History Version 0.9 is the final deliverable including new section illustrating the evaluation plan, as requested after the mid-term review of the project Release Approval Name Role Date Kerstin Franzl Coordinator 12.07.2016 All comments, additions or changes should be addressed to the originator Carlo Sessa at: [email protected] EUth Page 2 of 102 EUth 649594 D8.1 – Trieste-Koper cross-border and Heart of Slovenia pilot setup Section 1 Contents Section 0 Change Control ...................................................................................................... 2 Section 1 Contents .................................................................................................................. 3 Section 2 Introduction: aim and structure of the WP8 pilot activities ................................... 4 Section 3 Pilots setup ............................................................................................................. 7 Section 4 Analysis of demographic structure and youth population segmentation ............. 11 4.1 Trieste ............................................................................................................................. 11 4.2 Koper ............................................................................................................................... 19 4.3 Heart of Slovenia ............................................................................................................ 26 Section 5 Pilots Evaluation ...................................................................................................... 30 5.1 EUth Evaluation Framework ........................................................................................... 30 5.2 Assessment Activities ..................................................................................................... 31 Section 6 Analysis of current policies for young people ......................................................... 33 6.1 Trieste ............................................................................................................................. 33 6.2 Koper ............................................................................................................................... 39 6.3 Heart of Slovenia ............................................................................................................ 42 Section 7 Scoping and recruiting of key pilot participants .................................................. 43 7.1 Actions implemented for raising the attention and engaging the youth population ...... 43 7.2 Trieste ............................................................................................................................. 49 7.2.1 OPIN-Trieste Facebook (as of 15 April 2016) ......................................................... 49 7.2.2 Other dissemination channels ................................................................................... 52 7.3 Koper ............................................................................................................................... 54 7.3.1 Koper Facebook (as of 29 February 2016) ............................................................... 54 7.3.2 Other dissemination channels ................................................................................... 56 7.4 Heart of Slovenia ............................................................................................................ 57 Section 8 First appraisal of youth participation context, needs and expectations ................. 62 8.1 Trieste ............................................................................................................................. 62 8.1.1 Young expectations and needs: results from a survey .............................................. 62 8.1.2 Focus group for young people 25-34 years old ........................................................ 71 8.1.3 Focus group for young people 15-19 years old ........................................................ 73 8.2 Koper ............................................................................................................................... 75 8.2.1 Focus group for young people 25-34 years old ........................................................ 75 8.2.2 Focus group for young people 20-25 years old ........................................................ 77 8.3 Heart of Slovenia ............................................................................................................ 79 Section 9 – Design of the Young Community Manager Vocational Master ........................... 84 9.1 Vocational Master purpose, methodologies and structure .............................................. 84 9.2 Young Community Manager profile ............................................................................... 88 Section 10 – Conclusion of the pilot setup and next steps ....................................................... 90 10.1Interview with initiators ................................................................................................. 90 10.2 Promotion Workshop .................................................................................................... 91 10.3 Recruitment results ....................................................................................................... 94 10.4 Next Steps ..................................................................................................................... 95 Annex 1 - Questionnaire ........................................................................................................ 100 Annex 2 - Evaluation plan ...................................................................................................... 101 EUth Page 3 of 102 EUth 649594 D8.1 – Trieste-Koper cross-border and Heart of Slovenia pilot setup Section 2 Introduction: aim and structure of the WP8 pilot activities The aim of the European Young Citizens Participation pilot activities (WP8) is to develop an experiment of young citizens’ participation in the cross-border area Trieste-Koper, and expand the experiment also to the region Heart of Slovenia, a rural area in the very centre of Slovenia. It has been decided therefore to split the WP8 activities in two sub-pilot experiments of young citizens participation: Cross-border area Trieste-Koper (led by ISIS) Region Hearth of Slovenia (led by HoS) As common elements, both sub-pilots share the following objectives for the first pilot setup stage (as described in the DoA): Assess the young engagement realities, needs and expectations in the local context Assess public authorities current behaviours and attitudes to open to young citizens engagement in the public sector processes (with special focus on youth policies) Define new ways to involve young people in the new decision-making process of the municipalities The latter objective - defining new ways of engaging young people – can be further specified as follows: The goal of the pilot projects is to engage a communities of young people – respectively in the Trieste-Koper cross-border area and in the 3 biggest municipalities involved in the Hearth of Slovenia region (Litija, Kamnik, and Mengeš) - in digital participation campaigns to make pressure on public administrations pushing them to realize policies and services which respond to the needs and expectations of young people The communities of young are created and managed by Young Community Managers (YCMs). The latter are recruited from pools of young candidates from Trieste and Koper, and from the HoS municipalities of Litija, Kamnik, and Mengeš respectively. The recruited YCMs attend a Vocational Master (VM) to learn how to create and build a community of young. The VM supports the YCMs while they are involved directly in the creation of the community and realization of the digital campaign, helping them with online and offline ad-hoc training and tutoring activities. The Vocational Master is planned to start in April 2016 in Trieste-Koper and May 2016 in HoS, and last 12 months. In a first cycle of activities, until September 2016, the YCMs concentrate their work in the VM on: i) design of the community recruitment; ii) analysis of the range of topics of interest of the communities of young (respectively in Trieste and Koper and in Litija, Kamnik, and Mengeš in the HoS region); iii) identification and first appraisal