Youth Activity Maps (months 2 to 7) From February till July of 2025

The main goal of WP2 is to develop a comprehensive diagnosis of the situation of young people in small towns, which will be the basis for the future development of a Development Strategy for Young People in each city to strengthen the local youth policy. Project partners currently do not have complete data on youth, without which it is impossible to comprehensively design support for them. The biggest problem in our cities is a very large outflow of young people who go to study in larger urban centers, from which they no longer return to their towns. The development of such an analysis will be the next step in changing the approach to activities for young people and creating a strategy for young people (the next stage of our partnership in the future) and specific activities. Thanks to the international partnership of small towns, it will be possible to exchange experiences and ideas more, as well as inspire and motivate each other. WP2 perfectly complements the other activities in the project and allows to create contacts both locally and internationally between youth, youth workers and build activities with which everyone can identify. 

Youth Activity Map in Pissouri

1. Comprehensive diagnosis of the situation of young people - desk research, survey (500

young people + 25 enterprises), focus meetings x 5 (3 for youth, 1 for public servants, 1 for residents / NGOs – total number of participants = 50), Oxford debate entitled "Small City IS NOT attractive to young people". (number of participants = 50)

2. Self-diagnosis / reflection on activities for young people in the municipality +

benchamarking with other (comparable) cities from a country / region

3. Description of the youth policy in the country and the city's youth policy

4. Development of recommendations based on the diagnosis - opportunities and

challenges for young people in a small town and how to encourage young people to return

5. Meeting young people using the design thinking method - generator of ideas for

making the city more attractive for young people (number of participants = 20)

6. Online meeting of partners - summary and confrontation of conclusions