Day 4: 05-12-2015
Meeting of the youth-council in Corato City Hall
Sharing experience with local NGOs
Since the concept of democracy and active participation are strongly connected to the good
governance , EUROSUD organized a public debate in the municipality town hall of the city of
Corato . Debating , public discussion and public talking could promote improvements in good
governance and also improve the quality of local social policy and European social programmes.
Basically, as a group we encouraged active participation and critical thinking trough this debate
session. In order to organize this, Roeland Hemsteede , a representative from IDEA NL
International Debate Education Association provided us practical knowledge in which we could
understand better several different formats for debate practiced in college. According an internal
survey, using our online platform, among our members, participants and local ngos we came up
with a list of selected topics to debate.
University education system should be free . (Video )
Should Europe close borders or not? (Video )
Housewives should be paid for their job and duties (Video )
Moreover Mr Luigi Menduni from FORUM GIOVANI CORATO gave us a lecture on the way
youngsters are participating in Local policy-making . Participants had opportunity to ask questions
and share how this is arranged in their own country.
In the evening, participants were involved in the visit of the city centre of Giovinazzo .
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