Challenge of young people from the Municipal Youth Council at the origin of the project
The young people from the Municipal Youth Council challenged the Matosinhos City Hall to develop an action that could combat juvenile abstention in elections and the respective distance from political affairs and from the community.
It was within this framework that Politicamente Informados emerged, a digital, interactive and informative project that aims to bring young people closer to politics and to the exercise of responsible and participative active citizenship.
Through new and more immediate forms of communication, the young people of Matosinhos will have at their disposal an interactive space that will inform them about mechanisms and forums for participation in the community, about the importance of and how to vote, about the type of elections that exist in Portugal, about the governing structures that are part of our democracy, about the political parties and what their functions are, among other topics for the exercise of a true active and informed citizenship.
There will also be a space for the youth community to present their proposals, express their concerns and interests, among other relevant information that will allow them to outline a municipal strategy of participatory and concerted action with their needs.
The project's brand will focus on the term #votes# and the question Why do you Vote? challenging the young users to discover what their impact is in the various areas of society. To increase the engagement of young people with Politicamente Informados, the campaign also features influencers Pierre Zago and Catarina Oliveira.
Starting today, 5 October, the date that marks the implementation of the Republic in 1910 and the end of the monarchy in Portugal, several posts will be published on Facebook, Instagram and Youtube, so that young people, when called upon to exercise their civic duty and citizenship, are Politically Informed. In parallel will be shared until the end of the year a set of interviews made by our young deputies of the Youth Municipal Assembly to the municipal deputies. Link to the platform - www.politicamenteinformados.pt Link Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/politicamenteinformados.pt Link Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicamenteinformados/ Link Twitter: https://twitter.com/polinformados For more information: www.cm-matosinhos.pt E-mail: juventudematosinhos@cm-matosinhos.pt
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