Democracy for the youth: Vienna starts exciting workshops and lectures!
Democracy for the youth: Vienna starts exciting workshops and lectures!
The Democracy department successfully supported youth workers in Vienna in its first year, who work with children and adolescents in an out -of -school context. The focus is on political education, human rights formation and extremism prevention. As the city of Vienna reports, 20 lectures and 10 networking meetings were organized during this time, which led to a total of 1,400 direct contacts. Vice Mayor Christoph Return praises the commitment of the department and emphasizes that the youth workers are active in parks, youth centers and other leisure areas to offer young people orientation in a complex world.
The offers that react to current social issues are particularly popular. So there was a lecture on the situation in Syria with political scientist Thomas Schmidinger. In addition, important topics such as violence among young people were discussed, according to which a panel discussion with experts from youth work and police followed. During these events, representatives of the Vienna district youth parliaments are also involved in promoting the networking of the specialists. A need for creatively designed formats for promoting democracy is emphasized in order to actively involve young people in political processes.competent support and preventive measures
The specialist office aims to strengthen the awareness of democracy and to specifically support extremism prevention. Workshops for clarifying radicalization tendencies and fake news are on the program. In addition to workshops on extremism prevention, a research project on the influence of social media on the understanding of democracy for 2025 is announced. The team of social work, sociology and educational science experts has proven to be a competent partner who develops innovative formats for open youth work.
The program "Experience democracy, design democracy" promotes the active participation of young people in democratic processes and has already received many positive feedback. Information about the offers of the specialist office can find interested parties on the website of the Democracy department, which also provides further information on their activities.
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