Power up your mobility!

YOUTH is a platform for young people in the age of 10 – 18 to participate in the current debate of urban transport habits, the ongoing energy crisis and environmental problems all over Europe.
YOUTH promotes a culture of participative policy development in European cities.
Young people have their say about renewables and energy efficiency in transport. In Berlin (Germany), Bucharest (Romania), Gdynia (Poland) and Rotterdam (The Netherlands) they participate with youthful ideas and recommendations to local transport policies and urban development. Young people themselves campaign their ideas about renewables and energy efficiency to peer-groups and adults as well as to the media, the public and to policy makers.

YOUTH aims on one hand to change attitudes and habits of young people and to involve them as promoters and campaigners for renewables and energy efficiency in their neighborhoods. On the other hand, politicians and administrations are expected to realize their recommendations in a process of urban transport planning, as far as possible.
Pupils will work on ideas and projects from their point of view in the frame of a youth competition. As YOUTH reporters they produce their own articles, presentations and movies.  Realistic ideas of future urban transport solutions will be implemented into urban transport planning and detailed policy measures.
On the European level a city spanning design of participation and policy development will be developed, which will be adopted to the local conditions of each participating city.

The YOUTH project (Youngsters Overhaul today’s Urban Transport Habits), based on experiences made in the European Union’s CIVITAS initiative in the TELLUS project in Berlin, involving the young generation actively as stakeholders in urban transport planning. (www.tellus-wettbwerb.de)