Innovation Tag Opengov: youth

Baia Mare has developed a community-driven approach to decontaminate heavy metal-polluted land using plants, addressing a critical public health issue. The project combines phytoremediation, smart mapping technology, and a digital reward system to encourage environmental action and sustainable development. This innovative model empowers citizens, improves urban health, and creates new green economic opportunities.

The Conectando Saberes ('Connecting Knowledge') Academy of the Specialised Protection Service for Children and Adolescents presents a novel way of training people who intervene directly in the protection of the rights of children and adolescents using a digital platform. The design was co-creative, taking into account the vision and experience of those who are in direct contact with children and their families.

MATEC is the educational project for teacher training and support that promotes an innovative teaching methodology to enhance the learning of mathematics through technology. It was created in response to the declining performance in mathematics, the low inclusion of technology in classroom practices and the need for new tools to personalise student learning and meet the challenge of diversity in the classroom.

The IDT is a multi-stakeholder dialogue methodology whose objective is to generate spaces for collaborative co-creation to design public policy proposals for a locally development challenge.   The IDT Yumbo worked on a challenge prioritized by citizens. The causes were identified and solutions were proposed, creating a policy prototype. Through advocacy platforms, the prototype was presented to the local and regional government to incorporate the proposal as part of the Municipal policymaking.

Aides Jeunes, the aid simulator on the 1jeune1solution.gouv.fr website, was developed to combat the lack of access to rights in France. In just a few minutes, it allows people to see what aid they are entitled to, and to facilitate their aid application process. To date, it contains more than 700 forms of assistance and allows 80,000 people to be directed each month.

"Our Europe, Our Future" is a vast consultation of young people in France and Germany carried out in the framework of the Conference on the Future of Europe. 95,000 young people from both countries expressed their priorities for Europe in two consultations: one carried out on the initiative of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the other in cooperation with the Franco-German Youth Office and with the support of the German Foreign Ministry.

Those who are now teenagers will be in charge of resolving complex problems in 2050, in particular those related to the climate crisis and its impact on cities. They will need to be equipped with soft skills to develop generosity, creativity or teamwork; unfortunately, traditional schools are not prepared for this task yet. The Mayor's office from Suba, Bogotá, in alliance with te Bogotá Lab iBO and with the World Bank, developed an experiment to test a gamified program that uses ICT to…

Based on the idea that cultural consumption is important both for enriching yourself as a person and strengthening the fabric of our society, in 2016 the Italian government introduced a 500€ cultural bonus for all 18-year-old people living in Italy. Young people can spend it on cultural items and activities such as going to theatres, concerts and museums, buying books, etc. They have to register online and then spend the money through the dedicated website 18app.it, accessible from any device.…

Education in Open Government is a project whose main objective is to foster social and civic competences for the exercise of one's democratic citizenship in children and young people. It involves three phases: 1) Teachers' training via a massive online open course (MOOC). 2) Implementation of educational projects in schools: for this purpose, 3 guides of Education in Open Government have been published: Primary Education, Secondary Education and High School. 3) Evaluation of the experiences.

Brazil has faced many corruption scandals, which is causing Brazilians, and mainly its youth, to increasingly distrust public institutions in general. A a result, we launched "Cities in Play", a free online game to be played in schools that puts the students in the position of an elected mayor, who needs to choose among different public policies to make his best to succeed in his administration. Our main goal is to enable political awareness in Brazilian youth to allow them to play an active…