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2021 is the year of Klaipeda, a city situated on the Lithuanian coast. The European Youth Forum (YFJ) were delighted to award Klaipeda the title back in 2018, impressed by their goals and initiatives to get young people involved in developing relevant policy.
Despite the pandemic, Klaipeda has been determined to reach the objectives and bring the Youth Capital year closer to as many young people as possible!
To find out more about European Youth Capital, YFJ asked Aleksandra Lobaškova, General Affairs Coordinator, to give insight into their summer programme and what we can expect this month.
One of the major goals of our European Youth Capital year is to show how important diversity and openness are, especially when thinking about Klaipeda's city strategy. This is why a platform called “COLOURS” was created. The platform aims to raise public awareness, encourage openness, reduce public homophobia and increase the sense of security among groups who can often feel excluded.
We realised that in order to unlock Klaipeda’s unexplored youth potential, we needed to ensure that we could provide more opportunities for people of all backgrounds to be involved. By admitting that selective solidarity is common in Klaipeda, thanks to the “COLOURS” platform events we want to make a positive change together not only on a local but also on a national level.
In the past, investments have been provided mostly to “comfortable” youth groups. As a matter of fact, the groups including individuals with specific needs and national minorities have received little attention.
A particular focus of EYC 2021 is now dedicated to LGBT+ groups who had been generally considered as “non-existent”. Unfortunately, such gaps in the city’s youth policy have had a strong impact on young people’s decision to leave the city.
We are really looking forward to the Symposium on LGBT+, aimed at creating friendly youth policy, and the Mega concert, both happening on 28 August. The key message of the concert is to show the audience that even though we are all different, we are all equal.
We hope that this event will become a starting point for forming a new, national LGBT+ strategy plan as well as youth traditions, serving as an example of a positive change not only for the Lithuanian but also for the European cities.
By organizing large-scale events this month such as the Symposium on LGBT+, Sign language and Colours Mega concert, as well as different art installations and workshops, we want to set an inspiring tone that will encourage young people to take first steps towards building an inclusive society. Young people will be able to get involved as ChooseKlaipeda volunteers and ambassadors in the organisation and implementation of the “COLOURS” platform events.
Young people will also have an opportunity to share their ideas and opinions on the creation of new LGBT+ policy, be invited to take part in the discussions, expressive art workshops and brainstorming processes in order to come up with new and creative solutions for the city.
Young people will have plenty of opportunities to have their voices heard this summer.
Source: ChooseKlaipeda
If you want to discover more about events organised by Klaipeda check out their 2021 programme calendar!
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TheMayor.EU is an official media partner of the European Youth Forum for EYC 2021. This interview has been republished from the website of the European Youth Forum with minor edits for style.
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