Involve · Youth-led funding

Youth participatory budget (Cascais, Portugal)

URBACT (Cascais Municipality) · 2024 · Case study

Profile of the youth participatory budget in Cascais, Portugal, where school students are trained, debate proposals and vote using ballot boxes modelled on national elections. Each school has 10,000 euros for its winning projects, with larger sums for community projects, and 13,572 students took part in public sessions over seven editions. Sets out the three phases and what another city would need to copy it.

Section

Youth-led funding

Format

Web page

Access

Open access

Link

urbact.eu