Are you between 14 and 20 years old and have an idea for Bologna?
Get involved in the Radically Adolescent Community Fund!
Until March 2, 2025, you can participate in the Radically Adolescent Community Fund, an initiative funded by the PN Metro plus 2021-2027 and promoted by the IU Rusconi Ghigi Foundation and the City of Bologna, to support, with economic and project resources, the youth proposals to be carried out in the six districts of Bologna.
The Fund, created as a result of the requests that emerged in the listening and involvement path called Radically Adolescents, is aimed at groups of girls and boys born between 2004 and 2010 composed of at least 3 people and supported by an adult person.
The Fund provides an annual budget of 30,000 euros and each group can obtain up to 2,500 euros to implement initiatives concerning the five thematic areas identified as most relevant by the girls and boys who participated in the second edition of Poetic Politics: fragility, collaboration, future, relationships, horizons.
You can propose ideas of a different nature, such as podcasts, events, festivals, contests, competitions, debates, interventions on municipal facilities, buildings and equipment, organization of tournaments, interventions on a park, a square, a street, a school, awareness campaigns, flash-mobs, interventions on cycle and pedestrian routes, proposals for local public transport, meetings with experts and/or spaces for discussion, gender and sexual paths, etc...
The objective of the Fund is: to create a concrete space for teenagers, to give a voice to girls and to the city's children, promoting inclusivity, collaboration and innovation; stimulating creativity; promoting a sense of belonging to the city community and the implementation of significant initiatives; offering a training opportunity through a structured accompanying path, which guides young people to transform their ideas into concrete projects. This process favors participation and the acquisition of autonomy and skills useful for growth, representing an opportunity for all communities in the area.
The ideas may have a specific indication of a place in the Municipality of Bologna, such as a park, a square, a street, a school, a public building and must be applied through a special online participation form, sent exclusively by an adult mentor: an individual natural person, or who represents a local reality (school, association, informal groups, etc...), available to support the youth group in the development and management of the
initiative.
The deadline for submitting the proposal through a special online form is March 2, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. The selection of projects will be announced by mid-March 2025
.