About the project

City voices

The City Voices project aims to strengthen democracy, civic engagement, and youth participation in urban communities across the European Union. It focuses on empowering young people (aged 18–30), especially those with fewer opportunities and migration backgrounds, to actively shape their local environments and influence public decision-making.

The project introduces innovative, creative methods of community needs assessment—such as participatory photography, digital storytelling, podcasts, and interactive mapping—to help young people express their perspectives and identify local challenges. These activities will generate concrete outputs, including policy recommendations and a practical toolkit for youth workers and institutions.

Creative Needs Assessment

We use six innovative community tools — from Participatory Photography to Digital Storytelling — to capture the real needs and ideas of young people in their own words.

About the methods

Transnational collaboration

Partner organisations from Poland, Italy, Belgium, Greece, and Spain work together to exchange good practices and bring a European dimension to local civic action.

Partners

Real Impact

Every activity produces structured community reports and policy recommendations, distributed to public institutions at local, national, and EU level to drive meaningful change.

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Who We Work With

City Voices places particular focus on young people with fewer opportunities — especially first, second, and third generation EU citizens with a migration background, for whom access to democratic processes is often limited. At least 40% of all project participants come from this group.

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Creative reports

Every needs assessment produces a structured report capturing youth voices, ideas, and local realities — shared directly with decision-makers at every level of governance

Policy Recommendations

Every activity produces structured community reports and policy recommendations, distributed to public institutions at local, national, and EU level to drive meaningful change.

Open Toolkit

After the project, a free toolkit will be published so that any organisation working with young people can adopt our innovative needs assessment methods in their own community.

Six community ASSESSMENTS methods to Amplify Your Community

From Citizens’ City Maps and Digital Scavenger Hunts to Participatory Podcasting and the Berkeley Method of Digital Storytelling — our toolkit will give young people creative, non-traditional ways to voice what matters most in their cities.

SOON the Toolkit

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