Political Participation of youth in Rotterdam (part II)

Description:

During the first session/city lab the identified problems were:

• A lack of understanding regarding the voting procedure;
• A lack of trust in politicians (as a result of broken promises);
• Disconnection between the target audience and politicians.
• A lack of interaction between politicians and their constituents;
• Some of the attendees mentioned the lack of representation. For this session we clustered the identified challenges of the previous session into four (main) problem statements for which the participants had to brainstorm, prototype and ideate solutions:

1. How can we make information on political parties and/or politics in general more accessible?
2. How can we make sure that political parties take young people seriously?
3. How can we increase young people's confidence in politics?
4. How can we motivate young people to use their right to vote?