Youth Festival 2023-2024

"The Festival of Youth gives students in public education the opportunity to experience their rights to freedom and security through a model game of challenges. It shows how freedom - or the lack of it - manifests itself in everyday life and in social relationships.

The upper and middle school class communities involved will each carry out three socially useful challenges (small projects) during the school year. The specific topics of the challenges are decided by the class communities, thus exercising their freedom of choice and participation in the issues that concern them. The processes are facilitated by teachers and experts from the project. The results of the challenges are disseminated by professionals and young people on social media, thus informing the wider public, and in particular young people, of the results and successes.

The initiative develops the basic skills needed to exercise freedoms. It aims at strengthening classroom communities, develop students' peer relationships, make the deeper context of freedoms more understandable and enable young people to translate what they have learned into real action.

As a result, students who know and can exercise their freedoms become able to recognise, identify and respond to social injustices and violations in their environment. They seek out and contact communities where advocacy work, which they can join, has already begun."