Special Agenda for Youth Participants & Mayors

Welcome Dinner

Opening

Sparkling Inputs: Involve the Youth!

For the format “Sparkling Inputs”, we invited speakers whose extraordinary personal journeys and meaningful contributions to overcome division left a mark on us. These motivating speakers share their inspiring stories and motives behind their work and also introduce new perspectives and showcase solutions and ideas on how to cope with division.

Sparkling Inputs: Diversity & Polarisation

NOW Promising Practices I

Each community is different. But the challenges of living together are often similar in different local contexts. The series NOW Promising Practices showcases living examples of how to strengthen inclusive social cohesion in diverse communities. We understand practices as methods or ways of action which are adaptable to other local contexts. It is not about describing a project but about explaining how municipalities or local civil society actors tackle societal challenges.

Sparkling Inputs: Encounter enables Cohesion

Workshop Phase I: From Knowledge to Action

During the conference, we will gather different insights on how we can overcome division in our communities. But how can we transform this expertise into action? The workshops will focus on how we can act to actually change something on the local level. This format serves as a laboratory to deepen the understanding of our conference topics and allow participants to experience the themes first hand.

Sparkling Inputs: Insights from Practitioners

NOW Promising Practices II

Encounter with All your Senses

Evening activity

Sparkling Inputs: Acceptance and Identity

Workshop Phase II: From Knowledge to Action

Community Hour

Sparkling Inputs: Bursting Filter Bubbles

Collective Wrap Up

Closing