Giovani & Idee - Seconda Edizione

About "Giovani e Idee"

Projects for the participation of young people to the economic, cultural and social development of Torino metropolitan area.

The first edition

The project Giovani Idee was born in 2002, in order to help young people to develop their ideas, to make them live an experience of personal empowerment and to give value to initiatives that could enrich the metropolitan context.

Any "young idea" in social, economic or cultural field has the potential to contribute to the development of cities that are managed by the "adults" that too often have the need of receveing innovative and fresh inputs to keep things updated with times.
In the project first edition 19.400 young people contacted Giovani Idee's office, 2.000 had personal interviews and 575 ideas have been presented. Following the ideas presentation a series of collective information/training session have been held aimed at supporting the participants in drafting their project. After this second stage, 202 projects have been written down and distributed to the project partners. More than the half of those (137 projects) received expressions of interest and support, in some cases (17 projects) the support was total, even if composed by resources by differen partners, in the other cases the missing resources needed to be found.
At the moment the projects that have been carried out or are active are 40.

Giovani e idee represents a pilot experience for the Municipality of Torino; youth is the main resource to count on for the development of Torino, therefore Giovani e Idee wants to build, support and raise initiatives, possibly innovative ones, that comes from expectations and projects of young people.

The main objective is start a vituous circle of ideation, support and realization of ideas and to design, together with young people, a scene in which energy, fantasy and creativity become determining resources for their future, and for the future of our city and of our metropolitan area. Perhaps young people of our city can demonstrate that our future is also of their interest and that is not only the adults that can have ideas and is able to express them and to realize them.

From the first to the second edition

At the end of the first edition an evaluation has been carried out through different activities:

• a seminary (15 March 05)
• an encounter with other Municipalities of the metropolitan area (2 May 05)
• interviews to 200 participants of Gidee
• interviews to a sample of 20 groups of young people
• interviews to 15 partner organisations and Municipalities
• an encounter with other Municipalities of the Metropolitan area (6 July 05)
• a public event (13 July 05) with the participation of young people and operators of the City of Torino and other Municipalities of the Metropolitan area, during which 3 focus groups have been carried out on the following topics: process, partners, young people.

By reading the results of the evaluation survey and the data collected, the work group (Direction, Staff) has received important elements for the design of the project new phase.

The 2nd edition scenario

The Municipality of Torino through Giovani e Idee aims at carrying out an action of accompanyment, through an inclusive process, empowering its participants (by giving them the chance to make experiences, build competences, start collaborations and synergies, develop planning and pro-active skills).

The goal of contributing to the "growth" of many young people and many projects is more important than guaranteeing the realization of the ideas (too many variables often not predictable: time available, aspirations and life expectations, availability of resources,...)

What's new?

What does Giovani Idee 2 offer?

• accueil/ideas first information gathering
• orientation to opportunities and existing services, support in finding and activating possible resources
• personalized mentoring (interviews and encounters every two weeks with the tutor of reference) in order to facilitate the idea development and structurization and to provide support in finding and have access to possible resources/opportunities
• training (basic training modules: project management; budgeting and finance plan; legal framework; other modules: encounter on specific topics; cases of success; encounters with partner organisations; self-training moments)
• occasions of visibility in the city panorama (instruments of promotion of the ideas: Internet web site; catalogue of the ideas; private encounters with partner organisations, institutions, other bodies; Fair of the Ideas)
• support to realization (for project who found suitable opportunities)
• a city-wide presence and also in the municipalities of the metropolitan area, in order to favour the birth of ideas on the entire territory
• a private and public partner network that can share services and resources useful to satisfy the needs of young people

Who is addressed to?

The project addresses to all the young people between 18 and 30 years old that, individually or in group, want to realize one idea of their own.

In particular, the aim is to involve young people of all the metropolitan area, offering a service of accueil and mentoring in the territory of the entire city of Torino and in the neighbouring municipalities that want to play the role of project implementing organisations.

Duration

Giovani Idee II edition will last 18 months (January 2006 - June 2007).
In February 2006 the second phase of the project has been officially launched, the communication campaign and the activities of territorial animation have started, while the office (Spazio Giovani Idee) has opened on 7 March 2006, starting to the activities of accueil, orientation, mentoring (the first training module is foreseen to take place in May 2006).

The implementing organisations

The Municipality of Torino and the Municipalities of Torino metropolitan area that share strategic and operating project purposes and want to work with the City of Torino in order to favor integrated youth policies in the area (Municipality of Collegno, Moncalieri, Grugliasco, Venaria).

Partners

Different agencies, city institutions, associations, organisations and other bodies that deals with services, activities and policies linked to youth; city disctricts, territorial services, etc... (full list)
According to their mission, they can be:

• project partners, that wish to participate actively to the decisional process, involved from implementing organisations in topical moments
• operating partners, that can offer competences, human and financial resources "on call", and receive updates on the project

Links istituzionali:

• Città di Torino
• Città di Grugliasco
• Città di Moncalieri
• Città di Venaria Reale
• Città di Collegno