Italia-Croatia

Introduction

In this section, you can find all the deliverables produced by the DEMY-Coop project.

Facilitation of youth engagement processes

The DEMY-Coop project was aimed at raising awareness about the benefit of cross-border cooperation for a better, more meaningful youth engagement in strategic decision-making processes. 

The Awareness Raising Campaign encompassed the creation of a campaign concept and slogan, a visual identity to accompany the campaign's tools, a newsletter, a brochure, storytelling videos and testimonials, media relations and social media coverage.

Also, local authorities in Italy and Croatia were facilitated in understanding the legal and administrative mechanisms to activate a youth-responsive decision-making. With their help, the project identified the procedures that could help these processes.

An accurate and extensive mapping of youth organisations residing in Italy and Croatia area helped to identify best practices of youth development, empowerment and cooperation. The document also includes an assessment of the regulations promoting youth organisations in Europe and in the Interreg Italy-Croatia cooperation area, focusing on critical issues to be solved.

A cross-border participatory governance model on youth engagement was produced, underlining the importance of youth inclusion in decision-making practices. The model paves the way for a governance that is not only responsive to immediate societal needs, but also capable of evolving and adapting to future challenges.  

A Cross-Border Participatory Governance Model

The DEMY-Coop actions brought to testing and endorsing a cross-border participatory governance model based on the increased capacities of Italian and Croatian local authorities and youth organisations to collaborate and co-design strategic policies in a cross-border cooperation perspective.

The cross-border participatory governance model was designed harvesting information about best practices from crucial EU Territorial Cooperation initiatives and pitting them against the needs, challenges and expectations identified at local level through the Cross-Border Youth Fora organised in the third and last period of project implementation.

A final guideline document was produced, including takeways from best practices and policy recommendations for a better youth engagament in strategic decision-making processes.

DEMY-Coop Newsletters

DEMY-Coop created three Newsletters, each one covering project’s activities and achievements for each period of implementation of the project. The first Newsletter was published in February 2024, the second one was published in July 2024, and the third and last one was published in January 2025.  

DEMY-Coop storytelling - video testimonials

Video testimonials were shooted to learn the impressions of the youth engaged in the DEMY-Coop project. 

Eurelations GEIE IVY Voluteer for DEMY-Coop, Maria Antonietta, edited a video about her experience in the first Cross-Border Youth Forum held on 15 May in Sibenik, within the framework of the 9th EUSAIR annual Forum.

High-school and university students, together with representatives of local youth organisations, were inteviewed during the second Cross-Border Youth Forum in Sibenik, held on 4 and 5 December, as organised by project partner Udruga Emedea.

A final project storytelling video retraces the steps undertaken to promote youth engagement in the Italy-Croatia cross-border cooperation area.

Memoranda of Understanding

The DEMY-Coop partners signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU).

On of them was aimed at agreeing on a common solution to enable and foster youth engagement in strategic decision-making processes within the DEMY-Coop project understandigs and in particular by building capacities for improving the legal and administrative collaboration and governance related machanisms. 

A second agreeement was signed with a view to strengthen communicationand consolidate the cooperation in the future, based on the DEMY-Coop results and with a view to their further capitalsation in the Italy-Croatia cooperation area and beyond it.