| Summary: | The summary of the project: This project targets youth and youth associations, academicians,and public authorities by focusing on youth social inclusion in thecontext of Northern industrial towns (in Finland, Sweden, andRussia). The aim is to raise awareness in Russia of implementingyouth rights, taking into account the best Nordic inclusivepractices. We aim to establish multistakeholder collaboration onyouth rights in Northwest Russia and to elaborate a deliberativeyouth coping strategy as well as drafts of legislation andprogramme documents to be oered for public authorities. We relyon multistakeholder initiative by bringing to the dialogue all thementioned stakeholders. The project will also promote sustainableacademic collaboration between the University of Gavle (Sweden),Abo Akademi University (Finland), Immanuel Kant Baltic FederalUniversity (BFU, Kaliningrad, Russia), the University of Pskov(Russia), and the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics(UNECON, Russia). The implementing body consists ofinterdisciplinary team calling together lawyers, specialists inpedagogics and education, as well as social scientists all of whichapproach the said topic from the angle of human rights. We willutilize the techniques of information distribution and sharing viasocial and local media as well as dialogue interaction in the mode ofmultistakeholder meetings. We plan a series of internationaleducational workshops, joint funding applications, training forRussian researchers in Nordic partner universities, as well as the 5ECTS course for the M.A. level students at BFU. Public authorities(regional child ombudsmen) and youth public associations (regionalyouth public chambers) will be involved in discussions during theseevents. Our project will reveal the urgency of updating Russianlegislation and practices in order to circumscribe traditionalpaternalistic approach towards governing youth. This project willstrengthen co-operation between our institutions; communicationbetween regional child ombudsmen and regional ...
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