A presentation at the International Geographic Union in Quebec City, Canada on 8th August 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) encourages youth to engage in European Youth Policy.

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

2. European Association of
Geographers (EUROGEO)
Karl Donert, President EUROGEO,
eurogeomail@yahoo.co.uk

3. Smart Geography
Conference: Sofia, Bulgaria, 2-4 November 2018
http://100-years.geography.bg/
100th
anniversary, Bulgarian Geography Society

4. Teaching Geography in
challenging times
Annual Meeting: Paris 14-16 March 2019
http://www.eurogeography.eu/conference-2019/

5. Hidden Geographies
Conference: Ljublijana, Slovenia
31 August – 2 September 2019
100th
anniversary of the Slovenia Geographical Association
Details soon at http://www.eurogeography.eu

6. Empowering Youth in
Policy Making

7. A world of geographic
information

8. Cloud Computing

9. Disruptive Innovation

10. Environment: Creativity,
Engagement, Open Data
JRC (2012) "Challenges of implementing Creative Classrooms practices”,
http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/EAP/documents/_6_Etwinning_WS1_March2012.pdf,
eTwinning conference, Tampere Finland

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

13. Barriers to participation

14. Structured
Dialogue
mutual
communication
process for discussions
between young people
and policy makers
local and
regional policy
consultation,
cooperation

15. 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

16. Young people are
heard
Young people give
their opinion
Views taken into
account
Involved in
decision making
Participatory
Engagement
(after Hart, 1992)

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

18. 20 Key Findings
http://youthmetre.eu/policy-research/

19. 15 Study Groups
http://youthmetre.eu/study-groups/

20. YouthMetre
Key features:
•dashboard of European data on Youth
•database of good practice initiatives
•Crowdmap of proposed initiatives
•use of GeoCitizen app
•training of multipliers (youth)
•training with stakeholders
multi-platform access to
youth data

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

22. GeoCitizen App

23. information
inspiration
interaction
implementation

24. YouthMetre Training
http://youthmetre.eu/training/
Resources / training materials available online
Non formal learning approaches

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

26. Barriers to participation

27. YouthMetre: What lessons?
• Structured Dialogue - process
• Need long-term commitment
• Changing relationships between youth
and decision makers
• Many EU initiatives – not learning lessons
• Action for change – not tokenism
• Maintain the data quality on youth

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

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