The Final Conference of the European project CO-CREATE was held in Brussels on 12 and 13 October. This event featured productive sessions on “system thinking”, the involvement of young people in policy development, the co-creation process in the participating countries, how to boost dialogue between policy and young people, as well as reflections and future prospects based on CO-CREATE’s learnings for research and policy.
CEIDSS Director Ana Rito did a presentation entitled “Generating ideas about future policy – mapping youth systems and alliances: perspectives in Portugal”.
In addition to the presentations, the event featured panel discussions, the sharing of partners’ experiences and participants had the opportunity to try out some of the project’s policy tools, including the Advocacy Toolkit, the CO-CREATE Dialogue Forum Tool and the CO-CREATE project’s interactive tool for preventing obesity in adolescents. In addition, the CO-CREATE Youth Task Force presented an Open Letter – https://exchange.iseesystems.com/public/furkan/cc-interface/index.html#page1.