A presentation to the European Commission DG Education, on 22 February 2018 about the YouthMetre Project and its role of empowering youth with access to open geographic information and in enabling people politics through a data dashboard. The YouthMetre project (youthmetre.eu) and encourages youth to engage in European Youth Policy.

1. http://www.youthmetre.eu
Karl Donert, President
EUROGEO
22 February 2018

2. Policy making (UN)

4. A world of geographic
information

5. Open data to empower the
engagement of young people
in youth policies in Europe
http://www.youthmetre.eu

6. European Youth Strategy
EYS (2010-8) has two main objectives:
•Provide more and equal opportunities for
young people in education and the job
market
•Encourage young people to actively
participate in society

7. Eurobarometer Surveys
• Examined active engagement of youth
Youth increasingly distanced from
policy making and decisions

8. Forward Looking Project
• identify, test, develop innovative policy
approaches
• potential for mainstreaming …...
• improving education / training systems
• in-depth knowledge on target group(s)
• methods / tools that help policies develop
• conclusions relevant for policy makers

9. Barriers to participation

10. YouthMetre Challenge
http://youthmetre.eu/training/
Online resources / training materials - v. soon
Training for Local Authorities - Nov 2017
Training for NGOs - January 2018
MACRO level
MESO level
MiCRO level

11. Young people are
heard
Young people give
their opinion
Views taken into
account
Involved in
decision making
Participatory
Action

12. http://eryica.org/page/principles-online-youth-information

14. Bonney, R., Cooper, C. and Ballard, H., 2016. The theory and practice of Citizen Science:
Launching a new journal. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 1(1).
Finquelievich, S., 2014. From Cultural Consumers to Cultural Prosumers: Citizens’ Co-creation of
Cultural Changes in Information Society. Internet and Socio-Cultural Transformations in Information
Society, p.137.

15. Barriers to participation

16. Structured
Dialogue
How to
connect?

17. Research & data sets
http://youthmetre.eu/policy-research/

18. 15 Study Groups
http://youthmetre.eu/study-groups/

19. 20 Key Findings
http://youthmetre.eu/policy-research/

20. YouthMetre
Key features:
•a dashboard of European data on Youth
•a database of good practice initiatives
•Crowdmap / cases of proposed initiatives
•a high profile launch event
•training of multipliers
•Final event – showcasing developments

21. http://youthmetre.eu/youthmetre/
Youth Development Index
Based on 87 indicators
Related to youth well-being
NUTS 3 level

22. http://knowto.org/ym/
Data Dashboard

23. Good Practices
http://arcg.is/1TAbmn7

24. http://youthmetre.eu/study-group-surveys/
Crowdmap: Youth ideas

25. http://youthmetre.eu/study-group-surveys/
Crowdmap: LA Practices
How to implement?

26. The GeoCitizen App

27. information
inspiration
interaction
implementation

28. Process:
Orient - Browse
Identify - Collect
Share - Discuss
Propose - Rate
Implement -
Monitor

29. Pilot in Marche region

30. Pilot in Upper Austria

31. YouthMetre Training
http://youthmetre.eu/training/
Online resources / training materials available
Non formal learning approaches
Training for Youth / Youth Workers – Feb 2017 onwards
Training for Local Authorities - Nov 2017
Training for NGOs – June 2018

32. European Commission (2015),
Creating Value Through Open
Data http://tinyurl.com/j6qypoe

33. YouthMetre: What Impact?
(Graham et al., 2015)
• rejuvenating democracy
• reforming corrupt institutions
• holding business and government to
account
• improving the quality of data available
• changing relationships between data
producers, data users and institutions
Graham M, De Sabbata S and Zook MA (2016), Towards a study of information
geographies, Geo, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/geo2.8/abstract

34. YouthMetre Training
http://youthmetre.eu/training/
Online resources / training materials - v. soon
Training for Local Authorities - Nov 2017
Training for NGOs - January 2018
Using Open
Data
Information
Participatory

35. People’s Politics

36. Web: http://www.youthmetre.eu
Newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/YouthMetre1
Email: eurogeomail@yahoo.co.uk
Twitter: @youthmetre

37. Karl Donert
eurogeomail@yahoo.co.uk
@karldonert
@eurogeography
Karl Donert
eurogeomail@yahoo.co.uk
@karldonert
@eurogeography