Children and young people: ‘Let us participate in the issues which affect us’
Participation in decision-making processes, quality education, internet access and climate change make up the chief concerns for children and young people throughout Africa and Europe.Read more
Children take charge for European gathering on child rights
Children will be taking centre stage at a major European annual event aimed at promoting and protecting their rights.Read more
Re-thinking our definition of adolescence
Adolescence has changed significantly in the last century. Professor Susan Sawyer is working to improve our understanding of the contemporary complexities of this age group. As a respiratory trainee, I was highly influenced by caring for...Read more
Reclaiming the public space for children in Barcelona
In Barcelona, a local non-profit association, Tata Inti, is working to recover the public space as a place for children to play. As well as providing a meeting point for children’s caregivers to meet and...Read more
Children’s involvement in shaping their communities
“Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities,” which was released Sept. 17 by New Village Press, was written by three women with strong ties to the University of Colorado Boulder’s Community,...Read more
Injecting green spaces in a concrete environment
When I worked as an urban planner at the regional district of Freiburg, I initiated a project, ‘Cour d’école de Marly Cité’. This project was part of a larger project named Freiraum Freiburg and it...Read more
A child friendly election in Norway
Norway’s September 2017 election also saw Save the Children Norway design a children’s election. The aim was to reach 5,000 children aged between nine and 15 years. Yet in the end, over 60,000 youngsters participated...Read more
What if children design their cities?
Kent ve Cocuk (City and Children) is a Turkish-based ‘urbanism’ initiative using 3D modelling workshops to see how children would design their own cities. The team of three urban planners and an architect came together in...Read more
New publication on engaging children and families in city building
The 8 80 cities project in partnership with the Bernard van Leer Foundation and Urban 95 has published a new report on the participation and engagement of children, young people and their families in creating...Read more
Children’s advocates issue call to action on Brexit
A wide-ranging alliance of children and young people’s organisations coordinated by Eurochild has issued a statement accusing governments of ignoring the voices of children and young people in the Brexit process and calling for action to...Read more
“Develop, nurture, encourage”
In this third in our series of interviews with speakers at our forthcoming international seminar on urban planning an children, Willem van Vliet highlights the importance of the planning community engaging with stakeholders, including children and young people, beyond their professional sector. What in...Read more
Eurochild adopts participation strategy
Eurochild’s general assembly in Brussels has adopted a new strategy for children’s participation, which it says will help to put children’s rights at the heart of Europe. Adrian Voce reports Eurochild, the network that ‘works for and...Read more
A good way to measure a city is how well it treats its children
Could progress towards more child friendly cities be better achieved if municipalities were more willing to learn from one another? Alexander Starritt explores how some innovation and good practice in things like participation could have universal...Read more
Child Friendly Places: improving communities for and with children
Resources that can be used by young children, and by adults with low literacy levels, are vital if the child-friendly city movement is to reach those communities that need it most. Here, Sruthi Atmakur-Javdekar of...Read more