03/10/2023
FSG Participación
In the same way, they could participate in sessions organised in partnership with the “Plataforma del Tercer Sector” (Third Sector Platform), “Open Government: Roma Youth, Citizenship and Participation”, in order to bring closer the administration to the Roma youth.
The VIII Participation and Youth State Meeting has been held during the days 29th, 30th of September and 1st of October. This year, they have worked mainly on communication from different media and fields of communication as an effective tool to exercise participation.
At the meeting, energised by María Jesús Echevarría, young Roma from Huesca, journalist and television writer, who also belongs to the Network of Facilitators, different workshops were given by experts in oratory in public spaces, radio production and broadcasting techniques, and also in the analysis and creation of materials in the written press.
The VIII Participation and Youth State Meeting has been useful to put the finishing touch on the state activities of 2023 with the Network of Participation Facilitators, who have supported the FSG’s teams in their localities during the whole year in order to foster Roma youth participation at all levels.
In 2024, the young network of participation facilitators will continue fostering participation with new initiatives in order for the voices of Roma youth to be heard and taken into account just as everyone else’s.
These activities are organised within the framework of the State Programme for the Promotion of the Participation of Roma Citizens and funded by the State Programmes of Activities of General Interest considered of social interest, corresponding to the State Secretariat for Social Rights.