This document presented YUP citizen scientists’ journeys through Global Youth Exchange (GYE), a five-day international workshop held in Kuala Lumpur as part of the YUP Project. Bringing together sixteen young citizen scientists from Solo and Denpasar (Indonesia) and Bar Elias and El Mina (Lebanon), this exchange strengthened the citizen scientists’ capacities as co-researchers and co-producers…
This compilation of reports outline the processes and outcomes of the City Fora, a series of multi-cities forums and activities designed to present, consolidate, and discuss the core research findings generated by Work Package 1 (WP1) of the YUP project. The City Fora is a milestone within Work Package 2 (WP2) of the YUP project…
This report presents findings from the first phase of the Co-producing Digital Platforms for Youth Inclusive Urban Governance (YUP) Project, which has explored how young people (aged 10-24) in Surakarta (Solo) and Denpasar in Indonesia, and Bar Elias and El Mina in Lebanon take action in their cities, and the barriers and supportive factors they…
This report presents findings from the first phase of the Co-Producing Digital Platforms for Youth Inclusive Urban Governance (YUP) Project, which has explored how young people (aged 10-24) in Surakarta (Solo) and Denpasar in Indonesia, and Bar Elias and El Mina in Lebanon take action in their cities, and the barriers and supportive factors they…
By Rawiyah Salma Young people today are born as so-called digital and technology natives. Digital media not only serves as a source of entertainment in their daily lives, but also acts as a medium for youth participation in city activities, reflecting modern forms of civic engagement. However, despite the advantages of digital media, can it also…
By Rawiyah SalmaHow do young people take action on what matters to them? What factors encourage them? What challenges do they face? Continuing the survey story series, this section explores how young people in four cities take action on issues they care about in their communities. Let’s meet Putri. Putri is a 17-year-old from Solo, currently…
By Rawiyah Salma, Asri Septarizky How was the YUP survey taken and who was involved? In this post, we will present a snapshot of our respondents’ backgrounds before delving further into how they participate in the cities. From June to August 2024, we reached out to 4,248 young individuals aged 10–24 who are living, working, studying,…
Mission and objectives Joli Jolan invites to live an unpretentious life by managing enough goods. Main activities with youth Activities include donations and barter for any goods; Bank Pangan, an activity inspired by the global Food, Not Bombs movement, distributes free food on the Joli Jolan page every Saturday. Their story Inspired by the Javanese…
Mission and objectives To become a Hindu student organization with a religious spirit, a critical attitude towards social, political and economic issues, has nationalism, is democratic and humanist. Their story It started as an initiation from Hindu students at UGM in 1991 to form a forum for Hindu students nationally. In 1992, it began holding…