About DiverCity

DiverCity - Youth for a gender equal city

The main objective of this project is to enhance the participation of young women and girls from diverse backgrounds in city-making plans. 

Adding the gender perspective in urban planning and participatory tools/methodologies can help us rethink and redesign our cities by putting our diverse everyday lives in the centre. 

This approach will result in more safe,accessible, and comfortable urban spaces for all people in the future. Besides, according to UN Women, empowering women and girls to have a voice and a role in decision-making is essential for sustainable development and greater gender equality.The project's activities are designed to have a tangible impact on the local communities and, simultaneously, be structural.

 

Our goals

• Generate a network of organisations and individuals that focus on youth, gender perspectives, participation, and citymaking;
• Create common/shared knowledge by bringing together experiences, tools, and methodologies (creation of a sharedToolBox)
• Amplify the impact of the implementation activities in the 4 cities/areas by uplifting youth to feel that they are parts of themore extensive EU network/community
• Empower young women and girls to participate more actively in all the processes by providing them a “safe and bravespace” to talk and express their needs and desires
• Organize the lessons learned via the placemaking activities and to disseminate them locally and in EU level.